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Heritage Interpretation
The Benefits of Interpretation!
The following are 12 good reasons why heritage interpretation is a critical element in the success or failure of environmental and cultural heritage sites and destinations:
- Interpretation demonstrates how a cultural or environmental heritage site has value to the visitor and to the community.
- Interpretation can inspire visitors and create a sense of individual and community pride.
- It is interpretation (interpretive programs, living history, guided tours, interpretive exhibits, etc.) that visitors come to the heritage site for – the story and site experience. Without interpretation a historic site is, in the eyes of the visitor, just another OLD site!
- Interpretation gets visitors to CARE about heritage (theirs or other cultures).
- Interpretive services are the reasons visitors come back to heritage sites.
- Interpretive programs and interpretive services can increase visitation by increasing the
perception of BENEFITS tourists receive by going to a particular heritage site.
- Interpretive programs and interpretive services can produce reductions in site maintenance, and related management issues when used as a management tool.
- Interpretive programs and interpretive services can increase dwell timw and make money!
- Interpretive programs and interpretive services provide added value to any heritage tourism experience, and heritage site marketing efforts.
- You cannot have heritage tourism without interpretation. Heritage tourism is dependent upon the story of the site and the willingness of visitors to want to travel to see, learn about and experience the site.
- Interpretation brings in more visitors, more repeat visitors and more income.
- Interpretation helps visitors create their own unique choice of ways to experience and learn about a site and its story (mass customization and markets of one)
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- Find out about HDC heritage interpretation services
what is heritage interpretation?
why do you need heritage interpretation?
what are the benefits of heritage interpretation?
what are interpretive planning themes & objectives?
who was Freeman Tilden?
heritage interpretation planning
heritage interpretation design
heritage interpretation panel & exhibit fabrication
heritage interpretation training
developing tourist trails
request for proposal guidance notes
exhibit request for proposal template
interpretive planning request for proposal template
panel request for proposal template
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Contact us to see how we can help you!
Heritage Destination Consulting Ltd.
heritage interpretation & tourism consultants
www.heritagedestination.com
www.heritagedestination.co.uk
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