The National Endowment for the Arts has provided a grant to the National Trust for Historic Preservation to create an online survival toolkit for cultural and heritage tourism attractions and organizations.
As part of this effort, the National Trust will seek and share creative strategies that cultural and heritage attractions are using to survive and thrive in a down economy. The creation of this toolkit offers an opportunity to provide assistance to the cultural and heritage tourism industry.
The Heritage Tourism Program will survey cultural and heritage organizations and attractions this fall as the first step towards creating this toolkit. While the toolkit development effort will continue through the fall of 2010, toolkit resources will be posted on www.culturalheritagetourism.org and www.preservationnation.org as they become available.
As a first step the National Trust wants your help to identify potential resources and possible case studies that should be included in this toolkit.
Contact Amy Webb, director of the National Trust's Heritage Tourism Program, at amy_webb@nthp.org or 303.413.1986 with your ideas and suggestions for the toolkit.
Click here for more information or to fill out the Cultural Heritage Tourism online survey