Uzbekistan: Resilient cultural heritage and sustainable tourism development

This report reflects the main achievements from the Resilient Cultural Heritage and Sustainable Tourism Development workshop, including observations and potential recommendations, which may be applicable to some of the current situations in heritage sites, caused by the COVID crisis that is affecting Uzbekistan and many other countries worldwide.

Developing and reinforcing effective sites management plans, including situation analysis, risk assessments, and development of preparedness and response measures, contribute toward increasing the protection of local communities and future visitors and cultural heritage assets, and help the development of resilient and sustainable tourism,

The main recommendations achieved from the workshop findings would include:

• Enhancing institutional capacity to ensure resilient cultural heritage and sustainable tourism.
• Developing pilot projects aiming to standardize an effective mechanism based on cross-collaboration among cultural heritage, tourism, and disaster risk management sectors. 
• Improving staff-level capacity building to promote the development of resilient cultural heritage and sustainable tourism.

Please have a look at the report p.29 for more details on the recommendations.