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.
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.
Hospitality Management
Information about careers in hospitality management, including a list of accredited hospitality management degrees.
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.
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.
- Rivers, Trails and Conservation Assistance Program has created a comprehensive toolbox for anyone who works with communities to preserve, develop and identify the cultural, natural and heritage resources that make them special places. Here you will find how-to pieces on decision making, events, facilitation, organization, outreach and communication, among other topics.
The National Trust Historic Sites Weblog is a resource for National Trust Historic Sites that is available free to anyone who works at an historic site (both paid or volunteer). It provides news and information on managing collections, improving building preservation, enhancing historical interpretation, conducting visitor research, funding sources, incorporating new technologies and more.
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.
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