The purpose of this paper is to introduce the papers selected for the present special issue on planning and heritage. This paper aims at advancing knowledge about the variety of uses and meanings of planning tools and practices in the cultural heritage field, by bridging disciplines and by...

Machu Picchu is among the world's most controversial heritage sites. It represents a case where raising money through ticket sales and other activities, rather than an opportunity to fund site preservation, in fact constitutes a major threat to the survival of the site through overexploitation....

Building on the literature on managerial reforms in public sector and cultural heritage, this paper aims at exploring, understanding, and reconstructing managerial change at the organizational level. The institutional transformation of the cultural sector in Malta - driven by a call for...

The authors have studied the site of the Historical Sanctuary of Machu Picchu (HSM) over the last decade from an organizational/managerial point of view, based on field research and documents analysis. What follows is a sort of a virtual appendix of the article “Managing Machu Picchu:...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to analyze elements of continuity and change in the administrative history of the Historical Sanctuary of Machu Picchu (HSM) over the last decade. Design/methodology/approach – Based on a field study and of both qualitative and quantitative data, the...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to introduce the papers selected for the present special issue on planning and heritage. This paper aims at advancing knowledge about the variety of uses and meanings of planning tools and practices in the cultural heritage field, by bridging disciplines...