Yukio Nishimura, a World Heritage evaluator from the UN who was invited to visit this location, was astonished to see the venerable old train station virtually obscured behind a crowd of holiday vendors on the street. "Tourism development based on the cultural and historical environment is a form of dialogue between the locality and the world.
像是達悟族人生活的蘭嶼，目前本身都還不是國家公園，島上堆存大量的核廢料，居民與政府的抗爭對立，這些都將是我們自己先要面對的。「世界遺產的最終精神，其實就是一種自覺運動，」郭瓊瑩指出。