Promoting values of cultural heritage sites and monuments : a case study about the great hamam
Demjaha, Dielli (2018)
Demjaha, Dielli
Turun ammattikorkeakoulu
2018
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https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2018062514213
https://urn.fi/URN:NBN:fi:amk-2018062514213
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This research study aims to promote the values of cultural heritage monuments in Kosovo, using the example of an old Turkish bath located in Prishtina, known as” The Great Hamam”. The study seeks for the opportunity to install an Information Center – a place where citizens and tourists will find all information when they plan to visit cultural heritage buildings or sites.
This study is driven by two main research questions: 1) How could the Hamam as a cultural heritage object be transformed into a multi-cultural information point? 2) What types of services are needed to be introduced in this Information Center in order to promote other cultural heritage buildings and sites in the region beyond the city of Prishtina?
To answer these research questions, a qualitative research design that primarily relied on a case study approach and document analysis were used.
The scientific contribution of this study will benefit the tourism policy evaluation in terms of shedding light on how cultural heritage buildings / sites can be responsive to one another so that tourism in the country is maximized.
The Hamam monument is in a bad condition. Initially, it needs to be conserved in order to be protected from further devastation, and then it should be revived by central and local authorities carefully and professionally. This would be one safe way to ensure that projects for transforming the monument into a cultural heritage building / site could result in establishing a tourist information center.
The main outputs of the thesis are a tourist information center built as an independent object where tourists / visitors have the services closer to the cultural heritage monuments at the old city center of Prishtina, as well as a phone application “Promote cultural values” developed as a substitution to the tourist information center until it is built.
This study is driven by two main research questions: 1) How could the Hamam as a cultural heritage object be transformed into a multi-cultural information point? 2) What types of services are needed to be introduced in this Information Center in order to promote other cultural heritage buildings and sites in the region beyond the city of Prishtina?
To answer these research questions, a qualitative research design that primarily relied on a case study approach and document analysis were used.
The scientific contribution of this study will benefit the tourism policy evaluation in terms of shedding light on how cultural heritage buildings / sites can be responsive to one another so that tourism in the country is maximized.
The Hamam monument is in a bad condition. Initially, it needs to be conserved in order to be protected from further devastation, and then it should be revived by central and local authorities carefully and professionally. This would be one safe way to ensure that projects for transforming the monument into a cultural heritage building / site could result in establishing a tourist information center.
The main outputs of the thesis are a tourist information center built as an independent object where tourists / visitors have the services closer to the cultural heritage monuments at the old city center of Prishtina, as well as a phone application “Promote cultural values” developed as a substitution to the tourist information center until it is built.