-: 7 :-
Methodology
Definitions
&
Sources of Data
Definitions:
Following
definitions
have
been used in the Report:-
Culture:
Culture refers to man made environment including heritage. The
cultural heritage of any society is always specific, it is the distinctive way of life of a
group of people, and their complete design for living. Culture is not restricted to any
particular field of knowledge; it includes ways of behaviour derived from the whole
range of human experience and activity. Culture encompasses the techniques and
methods of art, music and literature, but also those used to make pottery, sewing or
building houses. Culture is also defined as the whole-complex of distinctive
spiritual, material, intellectual and emotional features that characterize a society or
social group. It includes not only arts and crafts, but also modes of life, customs,
value systems, traditions and beliefs.
Cultural Tourism:
Cultural
Tourism
is
viewed
as
travel for experiencing cultural
environments, the visual and performing arts, special lifestyles, values, traditions
and events. It is important to stress that cultural tourism involves not only tangible
or visible heritage such as sites, colours, materials and settlement patterns but also
intangible heritage such as social structures, traditions, values and religion. These
include; historical places narrative of the past heritage of the country; museums,
repository of curiosity mainly of arts, crafts, artefacts and archaeological sites dug
out of the earth.
Historical Places:
Places narrative of past heritage of a nation.
Museums:
A
repository
of
curiousities
mainly of art and artifacts.
Archaeological Sites:
Famous
ancient
places dug out of the earth.