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Development and Growth of Cultural and Heritage Industry

This assignment is about heritage and cultural management and its role within the travel and tourism sector. It focuses on definitions of heritage and culture, organizations involved in heritage management, different types of ownership, growth and development of the heritage and cultural industry, potential conflicts within the industry, influence of technology, and the role and scope of interpretation within this sector.

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Development and Growth of Cultural and Heritage Industry

This assignment is about heritage and cultural management and its role within the travel and tourism sector. It focuses on definitions of heritage and culture, organizations involved in heritage management, different types of ownership, growth and development of the heritage and cultural industry, potential conflicts within the industry, influence of technology, and the role and scope of interpretation within this sector.

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1TASK 1............................................................................................................................................11.1 Development and growth of cultural and heritage industry..................................................11.2 Conflicts in conservation of cultural and heritage resources................................................2TASK 2............................................................................................................................................42.1 Purpose of cultural and heritage attractions in meeting customer's need..............................4TASK 3 ...........................................................................................................................................73.1 Impact of various types of ownership on heritage management...........................................73.2 Responsibilities and roles of various organisation in cultural and heritage industry............8TASK 4............................................................................................................................................94.1 Methods for interpretation in cultural and heritage industry for tourists..............................9CONCLUSION..............................................................................................................................10REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTIONTourism is considered as one of the major growing business all around the world. It helpsin serving many purposes of tourists which includes recreation and fun to travel abroad,travelling for educational purpose and with the aim to gather necessary experience by travellingfor business purpose as well as for fun. This study is based on the topic of heritage and culturaltourism of various industry of tourism of UK. In this report, growth and development of variousindustries with tourism industry is necessary, which will be discussed in this report. Anothersignificant factor can be termed as the value of heritage and cultural attraction within varioussector of tourism (What is meant by "cultural heritage"?. 2017). Then responsibilities and rolesof such industries will be important for development and growth of relevant organisations.Different types of interpretation which affect cultural and heritage industries will be alsoanalysed in this report. TASK 11.1 Development and growth of cultural and heritage industryThere are almost 29 or more UNESCO recognised heritage sites in UK, which includesarchaeological sites, natural views like Inaccessible and Henderson Islands, attractive views andcultural sites like Saint Margaret's church, Westminster Abbey, Royal Botanical Garden etc. Thedevelopment and growth of cultural as well as heritage sites below such categories can bediscussed as follows: Attractive: UK's heritage sites are very attractive in nature. For instance, Royal EmpireFrontiers, also known as modern Germany forts. Industrial landscape of Blaenavon isalso an attractive industrial based site that includes attractive workers' house, publicbuildings and quarries. All such sites can be reached easily by travellers by easytransport and are having long sustainability (Ashworth and Page, 2011). Training inregards with skill development of staffs and employment is arranged by Blaenavonindustrial landscape. Natural: There are around four natural sites in UK which includes Inaccessible Islands,Gough and Henderson Islands. Natural sites can be like coastlines such as marine zone inGough Island, various landscapes, forests, woodlands in Henderson Islands, nationalparks, Henderson fruit dove, wildlife such as Henderson lorikeet and Henderson crake.1
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Different other habitats like green sea turtle, pacific rat etc. All these natural sites attracttourists who contributes for the growth of industry. Contracted heritage environment: Various constructed and man-made sites likeBlaenavon industrial landscape, Maritime Mercantile city, Derwent valley mills, city ofbaths are called as industrial sites. There is also one historic romantic architecture knownas Blenheim Palace. All such places are considered as the great attraction for travellersand can serve as the development source for the tourism industry. Cultural heritage: There are various cultural sites in UK which attracts many tourists.All heritage sites are having there own cultural importance regrading various regionaland national costume. For an instance, it can be said like Maritime Greenwich, wherethere is development of understanding of astronomy and navigation, London Tower isconsidered as power symbol, Royal Botanical garden used to gain knowledge aboutbotany and ecology, Westminster abbey, palace of west minister which is called asGothic Revival Architecture (Barbieri and Mahoney, 2010). However, contribution which is gained from various level with respective regional aimsassist in development of heritage and cultural sites for improvement of tourism and travelindustry in UK. From past year evidence, several famous events like Olympic games providesponsorship to London, carried out form different people who come to visit various places ofLondon. At the time of such events, people who come there visit such places and serve purposeof both business as well as fun. In the grand event of Queen Diamond Jubilee, there were variousoccasions that took place at several historical places of London, due to which there were muchdevelopment and changes in these places. 1.2 Conflicts in conservation of cultural and heritage resourcesTourism is considered as the complex phenomenon with ecological, biophysical,political, social as well as economic perspective. Tourism has shown itself as positive force forcultural as well as natural convention. As per the case study of Lhasa, there are variouspotentiality of conflicts among heritage conservation and cultural resources (Chen and Chen,2010). Various potential conflicts of Lhasa can be discussed as follows: 2
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