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Transmitting our Cultural Heritage to the Younger Generation: A Call for Mobilisation – A Case Study of the South West Region Cultural Festival

Evaristus Nyong Abam

Abstract


Regions and States or Nations attractiveness and competitiveness can be easily strengthen through a blend of tourism and culture in what is commonly called cultural tourism and culture is increasingly becoming an essential product of tourism. If it is properly showcased, the host community will stand to benefit a lot as well as there is the likely-hold that the younger generation will not be left out in all the cultural practices of their community. Cultural heritage consists of tangible and intangible, natural and cultural, movable and immovable assets inherited from the past. It is of extremely high value for the present and the future of communities and therefore sustainably preserving, managing and education around cultural heritage are essential for the evolution of people and their culture. Initiators of the South West cultural festival came up simply because they want citizens of this part of the Country or Region to shows those things that make citizens of this Region unique and a forum to explain who they are.

Keywords


Culture, heritage, cultural heritage, cultural festival

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