Tourism Market Intelligence » Heritage

A Short Introduction To Historypin

Richard Linington — Thu, 21 Oct 2010 17:17:49 +0000

Open Plaques

Richard Linington — Mon, 06 Sep 2010 06:20:35 +0000

“Open Plaques is a service that aims to find and provide data about all the commemorative ‘plaques’ (often blue and round) that can be found across the UK and worldwide.” Definitely worth having a look at. You can also add to the database.

If you have found this useful you could get in touch and see how Planning Solutions Consulting can help you prepare a business plan, carry out a feasibility study or operations review. Why not email Kevin Brown or call Kevin on 023 9248 1999.

If you have found this useful you could get in touch and see how Planning Solutions Consulting can help you prepare a business plan, carry out a feasibility study or operations review.Why not email Kevin Brown or call Kevin on 023 9248 1999.

Culture Grid

Richard Linington — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 12:00:27 +0000

Culture Grid is an online resource which brings together over one million objects from a range of libraries, museums and archives. This has the potential to engage with new audiences who may not traditionally have visited a museum or archives. Culture Grid

UNESCO World Heritage

Richard Linington — Mon, 23 Aug 2010 07:18:48 +0000

Tynwald Hill and Laxey Valley are having bids prepared by Manx National Heritage (MNH) for consideration for Unesco’s World Heritage list. Tynwald Hill’s importance is due to being the oldest continuous parliamentary site in the world, dating back to the 9th Century.

Wartime heritage

Richard Linington — Wed, 18 Aug 2010 11:01:34 +0000

In a drive to help celebrate Wales’ wartime heritage, military defences along the cost of Pembrokeshire will be restored. The restoration is supported by the Defence of the Realm scheme, which has granted £500,000 to see the defence battery at Chapel Bay Fort restored and opened to the public.

Heritage Lottery Fund invests £17m in skills

Richard Linington — Mon, 16 Aug 2010 15:59:27 +0000

“The Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) has announced an investment of £17m – treble the amount it originally set aside – in 54 projects under its Skills for the Future programme¹. This money will deliver 808 placements and adds-up to an impressive 780 years’ worth of paid training opportunities for people across the UK seeking a career in heritage. It will not only support traditional conservation training but also a wide variety of more contemporary skills, such as managing volunteers and using social media to get people involved in heritage, that will help reinvigorate and broaden the appeal of the heritage industry to job-seekers.”

Shropshire Churches Tourism Group

Richard Linington — Wed, 28 Jul 2010 15:03:28 +0000

A new group has been set up in Shropshire to ensure that historic churches are included within the local tourism industry. Shropshire Churches Tourism Group has produced a colour brochure featuring 77 churches, with more churches joining. The brochures are being distributed in information centres. The churches are grouped together in three zones, a map of which will be available once the website has been completed. The group is to help promote churches to visitors to Shropshire.

Hertiage Tourism

Richard Linington — Thu, 10 Jun 2010 15:20:11 +0000

The Heritage Lottery Fund has announced that heritage tourism contributes Â£20.6bn to the British Economy, putting the heritage sector ahead of car manufacturing or film induistries in terms of conrtibution to the UK gross domestic product.Â Â The report highlighting these results is â€˜Investing in Success: Heritage and the UK Tourism Economyâ€™.

Hullâ€™s History Centre

Richard Linington — Mon, 22 Feb 2010 14:23:26 +0000

Part of the funding for Hullâ€™s new History Centre was from the Heritage Lottery Fund and was the largest grant ever given to the city, at Â£7.7m.Â The centre will house documents such as the cityâ€™s 13th Century Royal Charter, information about Hullâ€™s maritime history and prominent figures in literature and drama.

Refurbishing Historic School Buildings

Richard Linington — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 13:25:04 +0000

Refurbishing Historic School Buildings – an interesting publication from HELM.