from The Art Newspaper
Travel vandals: the Grand Tour has gone sour
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When the aim of sustaining cultural heritages is solely driven by commercial interests, inevitably, its becomes unsustainable. This is the dilemma facing listing (and also de-listing) cultural heritage monuments and sites from the World Heritage Sites list. Perhaps a more sensible approach, as one of the solutions proposed in the article, is to attend to the value and meaning of such experiences:

"[T]ourists should get better educated about where they are going so that they respect it more and get more out of it. Slower, better informed travel, with the readiness to put something back in the way of direct contribution to improving and protecting the experience is the way to be a tourist."

It could also be said that such a need for self-education and reciprocity extends to all cultural heritage "tourists", including visitors to museums and other cultural heritage institutions.