HDC Heritage Interpretation & Destination Management Expert
Managing Director, Crispian Emberson is founder and driving force behind HDC, and one of the world's leading heritage interpretation and destination management experts.
Originally from a hospitality management background, Cris moved into destination management when he took on an EU tourism development project in 1993 following the Braer Oil Tanker Disaster in Scotland.
Since then he has worked for a variety of leading heritage tourism destinations including the Shetland Isles, Salisbury and Stonehenge, Lincolnshire and Norfolk.
Cris has been a Director of the East of England Tourist Board, South West Tourist Board and the Southern Tourist Board.
Cris is a long-standing member of the Hotel, Catering and International Management Association, the Tourism Society, the Tourism Management Institute, the Association for Heritage Interpretation, Interpretation Canada and the National Association for Interpretation, and the Museums Association.
During his consulting career Cris has undertaken a huge range of heritage interpretation, research, strategic, marketing and development projects for a wide variety of clients in the UK, the US, South and Central America, Africa, Europe, the Middle East, Canada and the Caribbean.
