Conserving Colonial Heritage
Raffles Hotel in Singapore
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5884850 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Joan C Henderson (corresponding author) |
| Year | 2001 |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 7-24 |
| Publication date | 2001-01-01 |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | International Journal of Heritage Studies (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1352-7258 • E-ISSN: 1470-3610 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/13527250119383 |
| OpenAlex | W2039996784, W4240754014 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 34 |
The paper considers the case of Raffles Hotel in Singapore which has been the subject of a conservation project with a significant element of redevelopment. The circumstances are discussed within the context of heritage tourism in colonial cities and changing approaches to conservation in Singapore. Built colonial heritage exhibits a symbolism which affects how it is presented and interpreted, serving as a tool for nation building and as a tourist attraction. Policies about conservation and use are influenced by these alternative and often contested meanings, while economic imperatives may demand that buildings generate revenue. Raffles Hotel illustrates the difficulties involved in managing and marketing colonial heritage and securing an acceptable balance between commercial and conservation objectives, with possibilities for confusion as a consequence of the combination of restoration, reconstruction and new building techniques employed.The case has a wider relevance which extends to other forms of built heritage around the world and highlights the dilemmas facing those making decisions about how to present the conserved past as a contemporary tourist space
Archaeology · Colonialism · Cultural heritage · Cultural heritage management · Economics · Economy · Environmental ethics · Heritage tourism · Industrial heritage · Political science · Redevelopment · Sociology · Tourism · Tourism geography · Architecture and Cultural Influences · Cultural Heritage Management and Preservation · History · Law · Socioeconomic Development in Asia
Preserving and Promoting Colonial Architecture
Heritage hotels and historic lodging
Colonialism, Tourism and Place
Sense and Essence
Reframing Singapore
Museums, Geopolitics, and Relational Localisation
Visual attention predictive model of built colonial heritage based on visual behaviour and subjective evaluation
Valorization and Destruction
The British State as Hotel Occupier on the Home Front, 1914-1922
Environmental management practices in hotels at world heritage sites
The planning of the Beijing Legation Quarter and the multiple identities of post-colonial heritage (1950s–2010s)
A Reflective Evaluation of Current Built-Heritage Management in Hong Kong
The politics of heritage and place-making in Tanmen, China
Use of Facebook in the US heritage accommodations sector
The heritage character and service quality in urban defensive structures renovated as hotels
Authenticating a heritage hotel
Tourist lodging, spatial relations, and the cultural heritage of borderlands
Transformed landscapes, tourist sentiments
Reconfiguring colonial legacies
The historic hotel as ‘quasi-freedom machine’
Having metaphors beyond branding
When Heritage Meets Creativity
Preserving Historic Architecture, Mitigating Climate Change
Will tourists avoid visiting destinations with heritage destruction
Beyond “imagined” nostalgia
The young generations’ conceptualisation of cultural tourism
Memory politics of colonial heritage in Asia and the Pacific
The role of national identity and tourism in city planning
Palimpsests of Progress
Heritage in Movement
Capital and the Transfiguring Monumentality of Raffles Hotel
Heritage formation and cultural governance
Decennial reflections on A Geography of Heritage (2000)
Either Here or There
| Citations per year | 1.8 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2006 - 2026 (21) |
| Highly cited | No |