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Regional
heritage tourism
project gets underway
Approximately 40 people
from a seven-county region (Hocking, Perry, Morgan, Washington, Meigs,
Vinton and Athens) who are involved and interested in heritage tourism,
met for a 2-day Share Your Heritage workshop at Stuart’s Opera
House in Nelsonville April 26 and 27, 2006.
The group's working session
--creating a regional inventory and map of roads, interpretive tools,
and current and needed attractions and visitor services-- will continue
in August during a second workshop.
Workshop leaders:
Carolyn Brackett, Senior Program Associate for the
Heritage Tourism Program of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Amy Jordan Webb, Director of the Heritage Tourism Program
of the National Trust for Historic Preservation.
Share
Your Heritage
Workshop Goals
The National Trust for Historic
Preservation's Heritage Tourism Program, working with the National Endowment
for the Arts and the Appalachian Regional Commission, has set specific
goals for Share Your Heritage workshops:
1. Develop a better understanding
of cultural heritage tourism.
2. Provide cross discipline training.
3. Encourage innovative solutions through breakout group planning
sessions.
4. Provide networking and partnership building opportunities.
5. Foster stronger leadership and a team approach.
6. Provide cultural heritage tourism development tools to stakeholders.
Goals
for this project
Goals set by the Rural Action
Ohio Planning Committee for this Share Your Heritage project
(including workshop and follow-up activities) are:
1. Develop strategies
for interpretation of the area's culture and heritage in order to
link sites and stories and enhance the visitor experience
2. Develop strategies for further developing the area's cultural heritage
resources.
3. Use the workshop as a networking opportunity to build a stronger,
more organized cultural presence in the region's tourism offerings.
4. Develop plans that will increase tourism and boost the local economy.
5. Educate elected officials in townships, towns and counties about
the benefits of cultural heritage tourism.
6. Raise awareness and appreciation of the wealth of cultural and
heritage resources in the region.
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Telling Your Story:
Interpretive Planning Tools
and Techniques
Amy Jordan Webb, National Trust for Historic Preservation, Heritage
Tourism Program Director
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Share
Your Heritage:
Southeastern Ohio
Planning Committee:
Mary Steinmaus
and
Stephanie Craddock:
Rural Action
Judy Sinnott:
Hocking College
Linda Hart
(and Sally Dunker): Athens County Convention and Visitorís Bureau
Tim Traxler
and Tom OíGrady: Ohioís Hill Country Heritage Area
John Winnenberg:
Little Cities of Black Diamonds
Sandra
Sleight Brennan:
Athens County Historical Society
Amy Grove:
OSU Extension, Morgan County
Rick Hindman
Tina Meunier
Jenny McMahon:
Buckeye Hills Hocking Valley Regional
Development District
Mary Ellen
Weingartner:
National Ceramics Museum
Angie Cantrell:
ACEnet
Bob Eichenberg:
Athens County Planning Director
Paula Tucker:
Rocky Boots Tourism Information Specialist
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