Summer 2006
Tourism News
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Partners in Tourism: Culture and Commerce is a coalition of cultural service organizations, the travel industry, and federal agencies that provides a forum for collaborative research, education, promotion and advocacy with the common goal of advancing the role of culture and heritage in the travel and tourism industry.
8th Cultural & Heritage Tourism Alliance Conference Set
November 8-11, 2006
Culture is the Spark is the theme of the 8th Cultural & Heritage Tourism Alliance Conference set for November 8-11 in Atlanta, Georgia.
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Editor: Carolyn Brackett
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Mississippi Develops Heritage Trails
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Alex Thomas with the Mississippi Development Authority, Tourism Division, was recently named Heritage Trails Director. Thomas, who has served as the Program Manager for Heritage and Cultural Development for the past four years, will lead the new program of trail development for the state’s tourism office.
The trails program will feature the Mississippi Blues Trail. The trail is in the early stages of development and will include scores of historical markers and interpretive sites at locations throughout the state. The trail will be developed in phases including distinctive cast markers featuring high-resolution maps, photographs and text. The sites will eventually employ the latest technology to allow visitors to hear the sounds associated with each location. A detailed Blues Trail map will provide driving directions, GPS coordinates and basic information for each site.
The trail will include over 100 markers at significant locations such as Charlie Patton’s Gravesite, Dockery Plantation, Historic Farish Street in Downtown Jackson, Nelson Street in Downtown Greenville, and the Robert Johnson gravesites located in the Mississippi Delta.
More information about the trail can be found at http://www.msbluestrail.org/. Other trails to be developed include a Civil Rights Heritage Trail, Civil War Interpretive Trail, Literary Legends Trail, and many more.
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