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Assessment of Visitor Management at the Archaeological Site of Umm Qais: Condition and Problems

2014; Taylor & Francis; Volume: 16; Issue: 4 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1179/1350503315z.000000000101

1753-5522

Abdelkader Ababneh, Fakhrieh Darabseh, Roger White,

Religious Tourism and Spaces

Umm Qais is one of the most significant archaeological tourist attractions in Jordan besides Petra and Jerash. It is also popular with locals due to its rich diversity of natural history features and landscapes. However, there has been no detailed study of approaches to visitor management at the site. This paper investigates the visitor management pressures on the site of Umm Qais, seeking to develop an understanding of the approaches that direct the process of visitor management in an archaeological site. The specific objective of this study is to identify and analyse the current visitor management measures and tools at the site. It explores issues of hard and soft visitor management through monitoring, visitor guidance, and interpretation. The study has been conducted as a qualitative case study, and its results are based on direct personal observation and discussions with the personnel that have been conducted on-site by the Jordanian authors.