Handling the Intangibles: Heritage Management in George Town
By Jeremy Tan, Julia Tan
July 2019 COVER STORY
The road to becoming a World Heritage site was not easy for George Town and Melaka – the paperwork, inventorying, filing and so on all required exhaustive work. Dossiers submitted to UNESCO in 2004, for example, were deemed incomplete, and it took four years for them to be revised and evaluated. But finally, the joint inscription of both cities as World Heritage sites in 2008 became a reality.While the initial exuberance has since faded, many have ridden on the popularity of both sites. Tourism numbers have risen over the...
Jeremy Tan
is a mass communications student whose passion lies in Japanese language and culture. He hopes to one day visit the land of the rising sun. He is also frighteningly fond of cats.
Julia Tan
is a former editor of Penang Monthly. She remembers her time with the magazine with great fondness.
