Editor, Commoditization of our cultural heritage just for tourists' consumption is not the way to go. It is instead a way to depreciation (i.e. less valued), and eventually depletion in short run, of our most intrinsic capital.
Editor,
Commoditization of our cultural heritage just for tourists’ consumption is not the way to go. It is instead a way to depreciation (i.e. less valued), and eventually depletion in short run, of our most intrinsic capital.
Instead, prior to "sharing” our wealth with the world, we ought to, first, devise means and ways to rehabilitate and valorise through actualisation, our cultural artifacts. Then put them to proper daily effective use that we finally will share with visitors.
Please take a minute and reflect on the foreseeable consequences when unreservedly staging and clumsily exhibiting our entire self, our most precious wealth, as curios for tourists.
François-Xavier Nziyonsenga
Reaction to the letter, "Promote culture through tourism” (The New Times, December 19)