Energy efficiency of cultural heritage in tourism development

Abstract

The energy efficiency of cultural heritage sites is an extremely important aspect of sustainable tourism development. The key feature lies in balancing the historical value of buildings, ensuring efficient energy consumption, meeting the needs of users and visitors, and ensuring their comfort. The implementation of energy efficiency measures in cultural heritage requires creative and advanced technological solutions, new tools, knowledge and training, change in the behavior of various buildings, adequate management of building, and a multidisciplinary approach to the problem. There is a need for cooperation between key stakeholders such as the owners of buildings, engineers, architects, conservators, local authorities and tourists. The aim of the paper is to prove that energy efficiency in cultural heritage is indeed possible, as demonstrated by examples. Tourism destination management plans can provide a sustainable framework for the protection of cultural heritage and the implementation of energy efficiency measures. Furthermore, they can improve the quality of life in historical cores, thus representing a powerful tool for economic and tourist development. It can be concluded that there is no singular solution that could be applied to improve the energy efficiency of cultural heritage buildings. However, there are a number of sources of funding, new technologies and scientific tools that can be applied in order to contribute to the preservation of cultural heritage and sustainable tourism development.