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Development of Cultural and Heritage Sector in UK

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Development of Cultural and Heritage Sector in UK

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Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION................................................................................................................................3TASK 1.................................................................................................................................................31.1 Growth and development of UK heritage and cultural industry................................................31.2 Describing possible conflicts in the conservation of heritage and cultural resources...............4TASK 2.................................................................................................................................................62.1 Explaining the aim of heritage and cultural attractions.............................................................6TASK 3.................................................................................................................................................73.1 Impact of different types of ownership......................................................................................73.2 Analyzing roles and responsibilities of organizations...............................................................9TASK 4...............................................................................................................................................104.1 Evaluation of methods and media utilized for interpretation..................................................10CONCLUSION...................................................................................................................................11
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INTRODUCTIONHeritage tourism provides better entertainment to domestic and foreign visitors by showingvaluable historical places. It gives effective knowledge about ancient places, civilizations, culture,artefacts as well as history of heritage sites. Heritage is also categorised under travel and tourismsector (AlSayyad, 2013). United Kingdom is one of the popular destinations for heritage placeswhich attract many tourists to come in nation. The present report represents the development ofcultural and heritage sector in United Kingdom. It describes the aim of heritage and culturalindustry in completing the requirements of various consumers as well as visitors in the country.Further, it explains roles and responsibilities of many organisations to maintain heritage sites of UK.In addition to this, it also assesses methods and media utilized for the interpretation in heritage andcultural industry. TASK 11.1 Growth and development of UK heritage and cultural industryHeritage industry has done effective and growth development in United Kingdom. Itcontributes an effective role to improve many areas like better contribution in GDP (GrossDomestic Product), employment opportunities, renovation and technology in the nation. Further,government of UK also helps in developing this sector (Bolaño, 2015). It is represented below inthe paragraph.Renovation- Authorities of UK focus to improve historical sites in order to maintain itsimportance in front of visitors. Further, they spend huge monetary funds on repairing andmaintenance of cultural destinations in the nation. As per the data, authorities of UK spend4.1 billion pounds on the renovation of heritage and cultural sites. This thing also aids inincreasing the frequency of tourists in United Kingdom (Chun, 2014). In addition to this,renovation of these sites contributes an effective role for this sector to grow and develop bygiving attractive look in the nation (Larkham, 2012). Contribution in GDP- Contribution in GDP of heritage and cultural sector is raised ascompare to past years in United Kingdom. Governance of UK emphasizes to increasevarious types of services like food, internet and gaming for visitors who visit heritage andcultural places in UK. This process also provides effective opportunities to earn effectiveincome from visitors by taking charges of visiting museum and historical sites in the nation.This profit also helps to increase the contribution of heritage sector in the GDP of UnitedKingdom. As per the report of historic England, in 2011, this sector provided the
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contribution of 14 billionpounds in the GDP. In addition to this, heritage and cultural sectorgained 61.1 million pounds per year in UK (Childs, 2012). This sector is increased itscontribution as comparison of previous years in the nation. This aspect also contributes aneffective role for the development and growth of heritage and cultural sector (Heritage andthe Economy, 2013). Employment opportunities- Increasing growth and development of this sector increasesemployment opportunities to manage its cultural activities at historical sites in the nation.This process helps heritage and cultural sector to provide better services and facilities atheritage sites in United Kingdom. New ideas and concepts of employees increasedevelopment and market share of this sector in tourism. Further, visitors are getting hugereliability to know information about the historical and cultural sites which increase thefrequency of tourists in the nation. As per the data, heritage sector of UK recruitedapproximate 200000 candidates in 2011. Further, this industry will provide many jobs tolocal citizens in the near future within United Kingdom. So, effective contribution of humanresource also helps to increase heritage and cultural sector in the nation (Heritage and theEconomy, 2013)Technology- Technology plays an important role to develop heritage and cultural sector inUnited Kingdom in an appropriate manner. Effective technology of architecture also helps indeveloping proper infrastructure very fast as compare to previous years in the country. Thisprocess also reduces expenditure of heritage and cultural sites by using proper technology inUK (Childs, 2012). For example: It also contributes an effective role for this sector to designproper blue print of infrastructure which helps to manage various heritage and culturaloperations at historical sites in order to increase the level of profitability (Cloonan, 2013). Encouraged hospitality sector- Government of UK emphasizes to set up new hotels andresorts at heritage and cultural destinations. Further, Authorities offer effective loan facilitiesto local public as well as small and medium sized organizations. In addition to this, manyhospitality organizations like Hilton and star woods establish their business at historical sitesin order to provide proper accommodation services to the visitors. Further, this process aidsto grow and develop heritage and cultural sector in the nation. Improving transportation services- Government of UK provides effective transportationservices to visitors in order to give effective facilities through bus, trains and planes. Thisprocess helps to increase the frequency of local and international tourists at heritage andcultural sites in United Kingdom (Newby, 2012). In addition to this, this approach increasesthe income of this sector. Transportation services also help heritage sector to enhance itsgrowth in the country in an appropriate manner.
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