Sustainable tourism

Figure 1. Painted burial chamber in the tomb of Tutankhamun

Replicating the tomb of Tutankhamun. Conservation and sustainable tourism in the Valley of the Kings

The closure of the tomb of Tutankhamun, to be replaced by an exact facsimile, has been much reported in the UK media and highlights a number of issues and raises some interesting questions. Although this is largely a discussion about the tomb of Tutankhamun, the tomb cannot be discussed in isolation and is put into the wider context of conservation issues across the royal cemeteries of the West Bank and broader globally-relevant issues of sustainable tourism. [more…]