What benefits does World Heritage listing confer?
The World Heritage Committee awards funding to assist Sites, although such funding is limited. Moreover, because World Heritage Sites are recognized as internationally important, international organizations often give priority to World Heritage Sites in making financial grants and providing technical assistance. Finally, when a country nominates an area for World Heritage designation, it commits to protecting that site in the future; as a result, national governments and foundations also emphasize World Heritage Sites in their own allocations of funding and assistance. An international designation further conveys upon sites a stature that announces to the world how precious and important and worth visiting a country’s heritage resources are. Perhaps most important, international cooperation recognizes that no country has the intellectual or financial resources to address all its conservation and preservation concerns alone. Through voluntary cooperation, all countries and land managers
