Tourism and Archaeological Heritage Management at Petra Driver to Development or Destruction? /

• Main Author: Comer, Douglas C. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2012.
• Series: SpringerBriefs in Archaeology,
• Subjects: Social sciences.; Cultural heritage.; Archaeology.; Social Sciences.; Cultural Heritage.

Once visited only by the cognoscenti of the ancient world, over the last decade Petra has drawn almost a million visitors in some years. Petra burst into popular consciousness with the release of enormously popular motion picture Raiders of the Lost Ark in 1989. Moviegoers all over the world were in...