Tourism and Heritage Management: Heritage Interpretation as a Part of Tourism Experience

This report explores the relationship between tourism and heritage management, focusing on the role of heritage interpretation in enhancing the tourism experience. It discusses different approaches to interpreting heritage and their impact on visitors. The report also highlights the economic and social benefits of tourism and heritage.

Tourism and heritage
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
Project – 2 : Report .........................................................................................................................1
Heritage interpretation as a part of tourism experience..............................................................1
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6

INTRODUCTION
Tourism and heritage are the major industries that has the positive impact on the
economic and social growth of the country. It also develops and preserves the harmony and
knowledge among the people about there culture and heritage (Bec, 2019). They both are
interrelated to each other as culture heritage is the place that is related or oriented to the tourism.
Tourism is related to the travel and explore different and unique places that provides some
information about the culture. Whereas, on the other hand heritage is related to the particular
region and area that has some geographical impact and with that it has that historicity that it
attracts the large number of population. Heritage includes the historic and architectural
monuments that has some history of periodic culture. The management of heritage and tourism is
emphasis the culture, belief of the nation towards their historic achievements. It also helps to
protect and diversify the environment with that different arts and also helps to achieve the
sustainability in the economy of the country.
Tourism and heritage is the branch of tourism is which the tour is based on the viewpoint
of heritage and covers maximum places and areas that has more cultural and heritage. Tourism
affects in both manner as tangible and intangible as like with tangible includes the increment of
economy, creation of job and tax, revenues also increases (Chami, 2018). Whereas, intangible
tourism enhance the knowledge and skills of an individual with that they known more about
there culture. This report includes the heritage interpretation as part of tourism experience. And
evaluate the different interactive approach through which heritage was interpret at each of the
sites visited.
Project – 2 : Report
Heritage interpretation as a part of tourism experience.
Heritage interpretation is the way through which information is transmitted to the visited
by using proper communication of about different art and crafts of museum, science park centres,
natural sites (Cheer, 2017). It is a systematic approach through which information is provided
about the heritage to the people and spread awarenesses about the particular areas and places.
With that on the other hand it is a process through which views and ideas is provided through the
communication and circulated the historical aspect to all the viewers. If the communication is
proceeded in an effective manner then it helps the viewers to get to know more and more about
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the particular place. And with that also helps to collects the relevant and adequate knowledge
about the background of a particular monument.
Communication also helps the people to resolve the different issues that is generated on
random basis and that create a lot of confusion. As there are a lot of information that is provided
on a general basis and that create complex issues and misunderstanding (Comer, 2019). Thus
proper communication results in effective result and resolve the misconceptions of the people
and with that people get more knowledge about their culture and heritage. Heritage interpretation
highlights the viewpoints about the cultural monuments as museum, national reserves, sites,
parks etc. and made the positive relationship between the visitors and the heritage. Furthermore,
heritage interpretation enhance the economic values of the country with that maintains the
sustains and balance by providing the brief about the heritage. Viewers gets more experience
after visiting the heritage and they get influenced with that visit again and again and spread more
clarity that enhance the economy of the country. Thus, in context of this report there is a group of
students who visit to the British Museum, The Tate modern museum, Museum of London.
Nevertheless, during the travelling students experienced different heritage that provides the brief
knowledge about the pilgrimages in an effective manner. Each and every building i.e.
monuments, sites, temples etc. have different background, culture and thus provides different
knowledge and grab the attention and attraction of the viewers (Dormaels, 2016).
It develops the interest in an individual as all the museum have different and unique
information about the cultures with that visitors always get to known about something new and
different. For that there are three different types of approach that could be used to spread all the
information related to the particular heritage. These approaches are as Human based approach,
Technical based approach and Hybrid approach. The proper and brief detail about the tourism
and heritage management that is used to provide the information to the visitor are as defined
below as:
Human Based Approach: It is an approach in which it is found that human have shown
their involvement as they have an interest to get to know more about the heritage. It includes the
maximum number of peoples or viewers that has an interest to know about the past and
background of a particular culture. With that viewers have different type of question, queries that
they can solve by collecting information about the heritages. With that here, museum also uses
human approach as when they need to collect the information about any of the place (Dragouni,
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2018). On the other hand, visitors also uses human approach to found the solution of their
problems and collect the data about the museums. It is not easy to get to know more about the
complex issues and with that it is not easy to circulate the information in an effective manner to
the peoples for that human approach works in more efficacious manner. For that museum hires
the skilled and knowledgable employees who have that talent to satisfy the viewers by providing
adequate knowledge. Museum also hires those workers those have a background related to the
history and have high communication skills. That creates easiness and simplicity for the
employees to spread the accurate information in an effective manner with that works as a guide.
If the guide have basic knowledge that they can attract the viewers to make a continuous visit.
Thus whenever, viewer has an interest to learn something new and different then they
always try to visit to the place that have knowledgable guide and provides the best, new and
relevant information. As it dispersed tranquillity in the viewers to know about the guide that have
diversified knowledge thus provide information to that and take that guide to another place and
then get to know more about the other place or area (Jimura, 2018). Whenever, an individual
uses human approach then it provides the vast knowledge and information about the museum.
Somehow guide also use the technological advancement as because that provides more clarity in
the people and thus that solve every kind of queries of the people while visit the museum or the
other monuments. As per that approach, the interpretation of the heritage is very clearly
distributed and thus helps the humans to get to know more about the monuments and the art
structures. The guide provides the effective cognition regard of museums and heritage.
Technical based approach: As per this approach, it includes the linkage between the
different aspects of the museum that inserts the communication (Larsen, 2018). It would also
uses technological advancement as like digitalisation in the utilisation of information that has
been circulated to the visitors as per their visit. That tools and techniques are the advanced and
innovative approach with that information is circulated. It provides the information about the
each and every aspects of the museum and with that creative and innovative tools has been used.
That helps to motivate the viewers and the guides or the supporting staff of the museum. In
context of science museum, it is a museum that is made for the evaluation and development of
the science and technologies. Technologies has been advanced with the continuous change but
with that museums have the record of the static displays of the different objects and the
equipments. That all are related to the palaeontology, natural science that has historical touch etc.
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The wider and vast trends of the museum have a broader range of the instruments that attracts
maximum amount of population (Richards, 2018). The science museums has all the different
aspects that are related to the ancient science as encourage the youngsters to discover more about
the advancement. And with the helps of that it is easy to get to know the more about the science
and development. As per the ancient science, there are different crafts and arts with that they
impart more knowledge. These collection further proceeds the nature and history of science that
influenced other to know more about the collected information that with the help of that know
about the previous achievements.
The Tate modern museum is situated in the London and it is a national gallery of Britain
and have modern art forms of Tate group. It is based on the power station of former bank side
and Tate have a huge collection of national art and that is maintained as from the 1900. Tate
doesn't charge any of the extra cost from the children as an admission charge to show the
displays of different architects (Rico, 2016).
Hybrid approach: As per to this approach, that includes the integration of both human
and technological based approach and that is used to provides the tour detailing to the travellers.
According to this approach, guide of tourism and the students will provide the information about
the museum by using different techniques. As like guide, stories, tablets, pictures etc. thus it is
the most effective approach that is used by the museum to influenced the visitors for there
continuous visits. With that the structure of the museum is well managed in an clear manner
with that all the collections has been assigned in a proper manner. That makes a collective
approach of all visitors, students and the museum staff that provides the collective result of the
historical achievements. As some of them are as from first world war as like Slavic medieval
states with that the gallery of Tate modern motivates and attracts other for to visit again and
again. It includes the planning of different events within the heritage and with that provides free
entry to the students as their major motive is to influence the students and make an interest
towards the historical and scientific aspects. They also takes the less amount from the disable
persons as a concessionary rate (Riddhagni, 2019). It provides the higher security and safety that
enhance the satisfactory level of the customers and the visitors. In context of the museum, the
desk is located that provides all the relevant information to the visitors and that is near the level 1
of river and with that museum provides different facilities to the visitors in the form of guidance.
It involve both the approach in the museum as like human approach and technological approach.
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With that there are different types of recording has been displayed in the museum for to provide
the information in an effective manner. As it is important for an individual to know about the
validate information with that it is necessary to provide the relevant information thus guide and
students uses different techniques (Timothy, 2018).
CONCLUSION
It has been concluded from the above report that the ongoing changes of time involves
different changes and development and thus to sustains the art and crafts of the country heritage
plays an important role. With the help of tourism and heritage management the economy value of
the UK has been raised. Whereas, cultural heritage and its tourism are the major factor that
enhance the economic and social development. And interpret the heritage with the experience of
the tourism with different approaches with that attraction of the viewers will more enriched.
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