Challenging Hit and Run Tourism in Cultural Heritage Sites

Cultural Heritage sites facing Hit and Run Tourism need to elaborate target strategies in order to balance tourism and heritage conservation, to define limits or find solutions in order to protect natural and cultural heritage and to mitigate negative impacts. Nine heritage sites including typical Hit and Run destinations such as Venice (I), Dubrovnik (HR), Hallstatt (A), and Aquileia (I) in South East Europe have been studied, which allowed to distinguish four different types of Hit and Run sites. The sustainable tourism strategies promoted by the United Nations ask for limitations and preventions inorder to reduce or to avoid negative impacts and also to create added-value for tourists and local people alike.