Cultural-heritage-friendly without barriers (CHF-Bs)

Abstract

Public and private entities have cooperated in drawing up guides, databases and sites providing exhaustive and useful information to help disabled people to visit cultural heritage places and various interesting areas as easy as possible. Barrier-Free Design is rapidly becoming an integrated practice internationally in cultural heritage accessibility. Thus, this paper will explore and apply the universal approach as the means by which the cultural heritage sites could be modified into heritage conservation accessible for all users. Any changes to heritage places need to consider the impact on the values of the heritage itself. Set within Greater Mekong Subregion (GMS), there are six comprising countries. In this connection, the paper is based on three scenarios namely: Wonders of Natural Landscape, Built Heritage, and Historical Town. The lack of consultation with two groups of respondents, experts referring to those stakeholders with professional role to play in relation to the survey of spaces and non-experts who are the general public, is a contributing factor. Consequently, the methodology of this study involves the preference judgment scale, open-ended questions and illustrations.