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Development of Heritage and Cultural Industry UK : Report

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Table of ContentsIntroduction..........................................................................................................................................3Task 1....................................................................................................................................................31.1 Growth and development of the heritage and cultural industry in UK......................................31.2 Potential conflicts in the conservation of heritage and cultural resources.................................4Task 2....................................................................................................................................................52.1 Assess the goal of heritage and cultural attractions in meeting the requirements of various visitors..............................................................................................................................................5Task 3....................................................................................................................................................63.1 Assessing the effect of various kinds of ownership...................................................................63.2 Roles and responsibilities of corporation...................................................................................8Task 4....................................................................................................................................................94.1 Evaluating methods and media used for interpretation............................................................9Conclusion..........................................................................................................................................11References..........................................................................................................................................12
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INTRODUCTIONHeritage tourism provides better opportunity to national and international tourists forunderstanding of incredible values of historical places. Cultural tourism is subset of tourism whichaids all visitors to get aware about the lifestyle of people at different locations, their history,religion, art and other cultural things in the country (Alegre, Cladera and Sard, 2013). UnitedKingdom (UK) has vast history in heritage and cultural tourism sector. It attracts many national andinternational visitors to visit these places. The present report represents the growth and developmentof heritage and cultural industry in UK. It defines purpose of heritage and cultural attractions inmeeting the requirements of various visitors. Further, it describes different type of ownership formanagement of heritage sites in United Kingdom. In addition to this, it also explains roles andresponsibilities of firms in heritage and cultural industry. TASK 11.1 Growth and development of the heritage and cultural industry in UKHeritage and cultural sector has done appropriate growth and development in UnitedKingdom. It helps to provide employment opportunities and improve contribution in GDP (GrossDomestic Product) for heritage and cultural sector. In addition to this, government emphasizes todevelop and renovate museum and historical places. They also add many ancient things to attracttourists to visit these sites again. These efforts also contribute in playing effective role to increasefrequency of visitors in United Kingdom (Azariah, 2012). Due to these reasons, this sector isgrowing as compare to past years. Authorities of UK earn effective income and revenues by takingcharges from national and international tourists to visit these places in the nation. Government ofUnited Kingdom spends much money to develop many heritage and cultural sites from generatedincome effectively. For example, authorities of UK also repairs and renovate the Tower of Londonto maintain its importance in the world. In addition to this, government of United Kingdom resolvesmuch issue like employment, shortage of resources to increase growth and development of thisindustry. For example, heritage tourism provided 209390 jobs to local citizens of UK. These thingsalso helped many people to get appropriate job in the nation. Effective human resources help inimproving the heritage and cultural tourism operations which aid to grow this industry in UnitedKingdom (Heritage and the Economy, 2013).Government of Britain focuses on establishing hotels and resorts to provide better facilitiesto visitors at tourist destinations in the nation. In addition to this, they provide huge help to increasethis sector in UK. For example, authorities offer loan facilities on lower interest rate, provide landfor infrastructure development to many hospitality organization like Star woods and Thomas cookin the country. Further, they also motivate small and medium organizations to come into tourism
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sector to provide effective services at popular tourist destinations. These types of effective effortsalso encourage local and international visitors to visit historical and cultural places in UnitedKingdom. They also increase frequency of tourist in those sites as comparison to previous years. Asper report of historic England, it was found that 58. 6 million people come to visit only heritage andcultural sites in the UK. Further, heritage and cultural sector also help to increase the contribution in Gross domesticproduct by providing various types of services and facilities to visitors in the United Kingdom. Asper historic England data, Heritage and cultural sector gave 14 billion contribute in GDP. It was alsogreater than records of 2010 in the nation. This sector has also earned 61.1 million pounds profit peryear with help of all these efforts in the United Kingdom (Heritage and the Economy, 2013).In addition to this, Government of UK provides transportation services like buses, trains aswell as planes in affordable price to the international and national tourists to reach touristdestinations. Further, authorities of UK also provide online facilities by which tourists can arrangetheir transportation facilities like taxi and cabs. Apart from that, they also encourage many privatetour-operators which help visitors to visit these historical places in United Kingdom. This processalso increases the profit heritage and cultural sector in the nation (Baddeley and Font, 2011). It alsocontributes to play effective role for the development and growth of this sector in Britain. 1.2 Potential conflicts in the conservation of heritage and cultural resourcesInternational agencies face many potential conflicts in conservation of heritage and culturalresources in Tibet. It is stated below in the paragraph:Potential conflictsIntercontinental hotel suffers with various issues in Tibet. This thing also affects itsinfrastructure development and other operations in the country. Enterprise is faced with politicalconflicts such as London-based Free Tibet to boycott from nation. This issue has generated adverseeffects in order to manage its operations of intercontinental group. In addition to this, domesticpeople have created severe problems for managing their business in Tibet. Further, Chinesegovernment also interrupts the operations of nation. Mainly, they wanted to build new heritage andcultural locations in order to develop heritage and cultural industry in the country (Buda andMcIntosh, 2013). These interruptions have disappointed people of Tibet and created issues forconservation of heritage and cultural resources. Reasons of conflictsThere are many social groups, local communities as well as local citizens who have createdmany problems such as political conflicts for expansion of global projects in Tibet. Mainly, citizensof nation who do not want improvement in heritage-and culture as they think that it would reduce
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