Cultural Routes: Theoretic System And Its Enlightenment To China Heritage Practice

摘要

Cultural routes, as a kind of innovative cultural heritage protection concept, is a linear cultural phenomenon with its large scale, cross-regional and cross-cultural features, the most core concept of this heritage type is the integrity linear protection and management along with its tangible elements and intangible cross-cultural background in the integrity and authenticity content. Cultural routes theory went through a history of discussion, development and perfection by more than ten years since 1994 when this concept was promoted at the first time to the world. In 2008, ICOMOS released the "ICOMOS Charter on Cultural Routes "in the 16th General Assembly, which completely interpreted the cultural routes' connotation and definition, heritage content and its authenticity and integrity standard, its heritage integrity management and its relationship with local sustainable tourism. Through the comprehensive analysis to culture routes theory, the paper points out its beneficial enlightenment to China heritage conservation by its innovative measures such as integrity heritage concept, sustainable tourism development and coordinated management.