Heritage Tourism at the National TrustHeritage Tourism at the National Trust

• Heritage Tourism Program – Share Your Heritage Initiative• Publications• Historic Hotels of America• Dozen Distinctive Destinations• Partnership Projects• National Preservation Fund Grants

National Trust's Heritage Tourism ProgramNational Trust's Heritage Tourism Program

• Provides fee-for-service assistance in heritage tourism development, management and marketing.

• Share Your Heritage is an initiative of Partners in Tourism, a coalition of national cultural organizations and agencies that is coordinated by the National Trust's Heritage Tourism Program.

– The initiative phase (1999-2002) included the development of more than 50 how-to cultural heritage tourism curriculum materials, a high-quality publication of cultural heritage tourism success stories and four pilot workshops.

– To date, a total of twenty Share Your Heritage workshops have been funded. Sessions include cross-discipline training, cultural heritage tourism instruction using expert national and local faculty and interactive training and problem solving exercises.

National Trust publications about cultural heritage tourismNational Trust publications about cultural heritage tourismavailable at www.preservationbooks.orgavailable at www.preservationbooks.org

• Getting Started: How to Succeed in Heritage Tourism: 48-page guide with the National Trust’s time-tested principles and steps for successful and sustainable heritage tourism development. ($15)

• Touring Historic Places: 16-page guide for group tour operators and managers of historic sites to develop, market, and host group heritage tours. ($10)

• Preserving Our Past: Building Our Future: 8-minute video describing the economic impact of heritage tourism and other benefits. ($10)

• Share Your Heritage: Cultural Heritage Tourism Success Stories: 80-page publication featuring heritage tourism success stories from across the country. ($25)

• Share Your Heritage: Cultural Heritage Resource Manual: 45-page publication

including descriptive information about 40 national organizations that provide heritage tourism support services. ($10)

• Who’s Who Directory of Statewide Cultural Heritage Tourism Programs: Compilation of 2001 survey results from 38 statewide programs. ($10)

• Forum Journal – Summer 1999 New Directions in Heritage Tourism: 60-page publication focusing on issues of heritage tourism. ($6)

Historic Hotels of AmericaHistoric Hotels of Americawww.historichotels.orgwww.historichotels.org

Dozen Distinctive DestinationsDozen Distinctive Destinations

Nominations due in Nominations due in October; list announced October; list announced in March.in March.

Past “Distinctive Past “Distinctive Destinations” in Destinations” in California:California:- Calistoga (2001)- Coronado (2003)- Ferndale (2002)- Napa (2004)- San Luis Obispo (2000)

Partnership Projects: “World War II in the San Francisco Bay Area”Partnership Projects: “World War II in the San Francisco Bay Area”National Register Online Travel ItineraryNational Register Online Travel Itinerary

www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/wwIIbayarea/www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/wwIIbayarea/

Map of World War II Historic Places in the San Francisco Bay AreaMap of World War II Historic Places in the San Francisco Bay Areawww.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/wwIIbayarea/www.cr.nps.gov/nr/travel/wwIIbayarea/

Mare Island Naval Shipyard

Battery Guthrie-Smith, Fort Barry

Fort Mason Hangar One, Moffett Field

National Trust Preservation FundsNational Trust Preservation Funds

• Matching grants ranging from $1,000 to $5,000

• To nonprofit organizations and public agencies

• One-to-one cash match

• Consultant services, not bricks-and-mortar

• 3 rounds per year (February 1, June 1, October 1)

• $3,500 Preservation Fund grant for the development of the “Maritime Heritage Network” website – a virtual travel itinerary to vessels and historic maritime sites of the central Puget Sound.

National Trust publications about cultural heritage tourismNational Trust publications about cultural heritage tourismavailable at www.preservationbooks.orgavailable at www.preservationbooks.org

• Getting Started: How to Succeed in Heritage Tourism: 48-page guide with the National Trust’s time-tested principles and steps for successful and sustainable heritage tourism development. ($15)

• Touring Historic Places: 16-page guide for group tour operators and managers of historic sites to develop, market, and host group heritage tours. ($10)

• Preserving Our Past: Building Our Future: 8-minute video describing the economic impact of heritage tourism and other benefits. ($10)

• Share Your Heritage: Cultural Heritage Tourism Success Stories: 80-page publication featuring heritage tourism success stories from across the country. ($25)

• Share Your Heritage: Cultural Heritage Resource Manual: 45-page publication

including descriptive information about 40 national organizations that provide heritage tourism support services. ($10)

• Who’s Who Directory of Statewide Cultural Heritage Tourism Programs: Compilation of 2001 survey results from 38 statewide programs. ($10)

• Forum Journal – Summer 1999 New Directions in Heritage Tourism: 60-page publication focusing on issues of heritage tourism. ($6)