Pompeii And Herculaneum Case Study

5) The impacts of tourism in Pompeii and Herculaneum are extensively in the matters of destruction, however, there have been several attempted conservation efforts to prevent these issues. Thus, Italian and international efforts have contributed to preventing the constant damages and improve the site management and conservation efforts.

Tourism is one of the largest industries in the world, and each year more than two million tourists, so visit Pompeii and around half a million-visit Herculaneum. Yet tourism is vital to the economy, constant destructions are evident by the erosion of roads and footpaths caused by heavy tourist traffic, exposed and broken lead water pipes, vandalism, parts of the mosaics, pottery and marble missing due to the poorly managed sites. Furthermore,
In Herculaneum, excavators are more concerned with speed by collecting valuable artefacts and antiques rather than a systematic excavation, resulting in many of the uncovered structures being deteriorated. Conversely, increasing destruction of tourism resulted in certain barriers in the sites to protect some buildings, the improvement of training guides and original pottery, columns and decorations have been moved to museums and replaced on sites by reproduction, however, the conservation efforts are a failure. The Soprintendenza Archeologica di Pompei whose mandate is the preservation, conservation and public utilisation of archaeological resources management has been inadequate since the PomepiViva collapsed in 2011 due to mismanagement and the excessive amount of tourists. Despite this, the significant conservation efforts are hard to gauge due to the lack of the appropriate management and the continuous amount of human