Heritage Destination Consulting launches Guide to Interpreting Cemeteries!

Aug. 4, 2008 - PRLog -- The Heritage Destination Consulting website, http://www.heritagedestination.com/default.aspx which contains a wealth of information on cultural, environmental and heritage interpretation, has created a new section dedicated to interpreting graveyards and cemeteries. Ghoulish as it may sound, graveyard tourism or cemetery tourism is a growing phenomenon around the world. The final resting place of the dead sounds like an unlikely tourist attraction, but destinations around the world are beginning promote memorials, cemeteries & graveyards to attract visitors wanting to trace their roots or pay homage to long-dead hero’s and villains. Most historic towns and villages have a cemetery worth exploring and many larger cities have graveyards reserved for the powerful, rich and famous (or infamous!) and a stroll around one of the big cemeteries such as Highgate in London or Pere-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris is fascinating and absorbing experience. The section has been designed to give visitors an overview of graveyard tourism and a few insights into planning and designing interpretation.

“This is a really useful addition to the site, and a great reference for people who are planning interpretation in churchyards, battlefields and so on” said Crispian Emberson, Managing Director of Heritage Destination Consulting. “You can learn a huge amount about a community’s social history and heritage my spending a few hours in a local graveyard”.

Visit the new section at: http://www.heritagedestination.com/cemetery-tourism.aspx

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HDC is an international heritage interpretation & tourism destination development consultancy based in the UK with offices in the USA, Chile, South Africa and China. HDC specialises in heritage interpretation, tourism destination development and tourism destination marketing of sustainable environmental, cultural and heritage products and businesses throughout the world. We work with visitor centres, national parks, tourist attractions, heritage centres, museums, tourism partnerships, government agencies, NGO’s, cultural, heritage and environmental groups in Asia, Africa, Europe and North and South America. To find out more about interpretive planning visit: http://www.heritagedestination.com/interpretive-planning.... interpretive training: http://www.heritagedestination.com/interp-training.aspx and interpretive design: http://www.heritagedestination.com/heritageinterp-design.aspx

Visit the new section at: http://www.heritagedestination.com/cemetery-tourism.aspx