USEFUL LINKS ArtsMarketing.org
is a project of Arts & Business Council of Americans for the Arts that provides
how-to marketing resources geared towards non-profit arts organizations.
The website includes practical lessons in marketing, hot topics, a marketing forum, case studies and other marketing resources.
BEST
BEST (Business Enterprises for Sustainable Travel) was launched in 1999 to provide information about innovative travel and tourism practices that support the economic and social sustainability of destinations. In 2003, BEST became a part of the Prince of Wales International Business Leaders Forum (IBLF) as a program of the International Tourism Partnership based in the United Kingdom. The BEST website includes sustainable tourism case studies and other resources.
Bureau of Land Management
The BLM sponsored an Adventures in the Past heritage tourism conference in Santa Fe, New Mexico in November 2006. Many of the PowerPoint presentations from the workshop can now be viewed online. This website also includes a heritage tourism toolkit with how-to reference materials and information about other BLM heritage tourism programs.
Cultural Heritage Tourism Resources
Website portal providing a directory of Cultural Heritage Tourism Resources, information about Heritage Inventory tools, and links to research, funding opportunities, and other online resources relating to cultural heritage, heritage tourism, heritage preservation, and promotion.
Directorytourism.com the Directory for tourism and related resources. Tourism Directory, gives full fledged information on global platform for tourism policy issues and practical source of tourism know-how. Directorytourism.com, promotes the World Tourism by collecting various tourism resources across the globe.
http://www.directorytourism.com/cultural-tourism/
The International Coalition of Historic Site Museums of Conscience
A network of historic site museums in many different parts of the world, at many stages of development, presenting and interpreting a wide variety of historic issues, events and people. These sites have a common belief that it is the obligation of historic sites to assist the public in drawing connections between the history of our site and its contemporary implications.
Learm more about the member sites and the issues they are facing on this website.
www.sitesofconscience.org/eng/about.htm
National Park Service
The main National Park Service website is the gateway to national parks, information on preserving America's history and culture in parks and communities, and a vast amount of other useful information on National Park Service programs, history and culture, nature and science, education, and other topics.
www.nps.gov
National Park Service Discover our Shared Heritage Travel Itinerary Series
Plan trips to thousand of special places listed in the National Register of Historic Places of the United States using this on-line travel itinerary series.
www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel
Natural Resources Conservation Services (NRCS)
U.S. Department of Agriculture
Alternative Enterprises and Agritourism
Alternative and agritourism enterprises allow farmers and ranchers to earn higher profits by replacing or supplementing traditional farm operations with innovative on-farm or on-ranch ventures. Alternative enterprises can take many forms;
They can:
- produce food and fiber or have little to do with agriculture;
- produce new or unique crops or livestock or add value to traditional agricultural
products;
- produce fun, recreation, nature-based, or educational products;
- rely on traditional farm practices or use alternative methods, such as organic
systems;
- be labor and resource intensive or require few inputs;
- operate seasonally, or year-round.
But they all have a common theme: farmers and ranchers rely on the natural resources on their land - the soil, water, air, plants, wildlife, and scenery to keep their family on the farm and the farm in their family.
They also require sound land care. Since the land's resources generate income, conserving those resources makes good business sense.
http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/technical/RESS/altenterprise/
Save America’s Treasures
Save America’s Treasures is a national effort to protect "America's threatened cultural treasures, including historicstructures,collections, works of art, maps and journals that document and illuminate the history and culture of the United States." Established by Executive Order in February 1998, Save America's Treasures was originally founded as the centerpiece of the White House National Millennium Commemoration and as a public-private partnership that included the White House, the National Park Service and the National Trust for Historic Preservation. Dedicated to the preservation and celebration of America's priceless historic legacy, Save Americas Treasures works to recognize and rescue the enduring symbols of American tradition that define us as a nation.
http://www.saveamericastreasures.org/index.html
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