The identity of nations, a feature that belongs in every nation. Cultural heritage is the best resource when you are trying to learn about a nation or a culture. Protecting it is the way to protect your identity but when the point gets to “protecting” it or showing it off, we might have to dig a lot deeper.
The formation on displaying and protecting the cultural heritage is something that gets the people thinking on their votes. It is no joke and it can cause a candidate to lose if they apply the wrong policy, nobody wants to lose their identity anyways. What is the right decision though?
When you go to travel any place around the world, you might want to see the culture. You get the meet with the identity of the nation and you learn to act accordingly in the duration of your stay. Governments defend different policies on cultural heritages, some are as radical as blocking the entrance to cultural sites, and some countries make it free so that tourists get attracted. Can these heritages get damaged? Yeah, in every occasion. If you are managing a seaside country that has great artifacts, great buildings, wouldn’t you try to profit of that? Yes you would, because it is the right thing to do. Tourists learn, experience, you gain money. If you keep your borders stiff, control who enters, you won’t encounter big damage? Everything about promoting tourism starts in border safety. The heritages won’t get damaged on their own. This doesn’t mean they should be well protected, history means everything, in case anything happens.
Still, if a country decides to block tourism, tourists will find their way to better places. In the end, your country starts to lose reputation, power, money and more. Protecting artifacts isn’t the wrong thing to do, instead both protecting them and showing them off would give the best reputation of your country to the tourist.