CULTURAL HERITAGE TOURISM IN THE NEWS.... CURRENT NEWS

AUGUST 1 - 31, 2010

U.S. House Majority Whip Jim Clyburn backs heritage tourism

8/4/10
Myrtle Beach Sun News
Southern lawmakers can help the recovery by promoting tourism and the region's rich cultural heritage and history.

Museum promotes heritage tourism

8/4/10
TheRecordLive.com
The location of the park provides a unique and ideal advantage for cultural and heritage tourism.

Hillsborough, North Carolina honored for its Preservation efforts

8/4/10
Chapel Hill News
Recently designated a Preserve America Community.

Heritage Community designation could boost tourism in Milford area

8/5/10
Times Herald-Record
The executive director of the Route 6 Alliance states that the thing about heritage tourism is that it's meant to enhance and preserve what's unique about a community and not make it into a Disneyland.

Shipwreck could yield the USS Scorpion from the War of 1812

8/5/10
Washington Post
It's very much about economic development and cultural heritage tourism," said Bill Pencek, executive director of the Maryland War of 1812 Bicentennial Commission.

Good things are happening in Bronzeville

8/6/10
Gazette Chicago
Bronzeville Community Development Advisory Partnership and others to begin heritage tourism initiatives in the community.

Officials tout impact of Seaway Trail

8/9/10
Buffalo News
The first study to segment cultural and heritage tourists in the US — conducted by Mandala Research for the US Cultural & Heritage Tourism Marketing ...

Local pols help preserve heritage sites

8/16/10
The Daily Item of Lynn

The executive director of Essex Heritage states the legislation encourages closer cooperation between the organization and state agencies for projects such as trail development, scenic byways, land conservation and cultural tourism.

Coney Island - Surf Avenue Turf War

8/19/10
Wall Street Journal
According to a 2009 report by the Commerce Department, cultural and heritage tourism generates an estimated $192 billion annually for the US economy, ...

'Cultural' tourists head to Savannah

8/20/10
Savannah Morning News

Cultural tourism can be as simple as eating where the locals dine, attending local sporting events and concerts or flocking to festivals and similar exotic events

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