Creating Generative value

We travel the world in order to see and experience some of its most amazing landmarks and sites, although we expect to be mesmerised and intrigued by these various attractions sometimes this is not the case, why? Graffiti and vandalism, that’s why. Over the years as different historical sites and attractions have become more and more popular, the amount tourists who visit these sites have increased, in some cases this can be a good thing but some people have begun to use these areas as a drawing board.

Sites such as the Paris Catacombs, The Sphinx Giza, Fremont Troll and Jim Morrison’s grave as well as many other attractions have all fallen victim to these countless acts of vandalism. When we look at travelling to a certain area we look to see what it offers to us, this is not just the activities that we can complete while there it is the history that we can learn about the place and the people and the landmarks which we can visit along the way, this whole reason for travelling could very easily be destroyed by these acts of vandalism throughout the world. In my personal experience I want to travel and see landmarks and attractions in their original form, if I wanted to see something covered in graffiti I would visit my local skate park.

 I guess the question forms of how do we stop this? Tourists are going to continue to visit the worlds attractions which leads to this vandalism from happening, so what can we do about it?

I think the first answer to this question lies with making a clear distinction between what is vandalism and what is art. I read an article about the seven most vandalised attractions and two of these attractions actually started from a form of vandalism themselves, the Seattle Gum wall was started due to the fact that passers-by would constantly stick their old chewing gum on the wall and after many failed attempts attendants stopped scraping it off and hence this tourist attraction grew. Another case was the Cadillac Ranch in Texas where graffiti is actually welcomed! In order to stop this vandalism issue we need to be able to make clearly distinguish what should and shouldn’t be subjected to these acts of vandalism.

How do we make this distinction? I’m not sure but we will have to do it soon else there will be no more attractions left that haven’t been touched.

If you want more information read the article here: http://www.news.com.au/travel/world-travel/the-worlds-most-vandalised-tourist-attractions/story-e6frfqai-1226746454843