ForeSite Consulting, LLC

ForeSite Consulting provides Cultural Heritage Destination Tourism Planning, Development, and Strategic Marketing Services including:

Destination Strategic Planning & Sustainable Tourism Development Planning – Guide your community or heritage area through the strategic destination planning process, facilitate the conceptualization of the local tourism partners’ and stakeholders’ vision; help define tourism goals and provide strategies and recommendations to achieve those goals.

Cultural Heritage Tourism Assessment with Recommendations – Perform a preliminary tourism assessment of current/potential tourism assets and make recommendations for enhancing existing and developing new tourism destinations.

Destination Tourism Marketing Strategies – Develop effective Marketing Strategies aimed at Getting the RIGHT Information to the RIGHT People at the RIGHT Time.

Website Design & Development for Travel Destinations – Visionary web design and development of mobile responsive websites, WordPress and HTML 5 websites, and custom web applications. Other services include web hosting, SEO, Digital Marketing, and domain registration services.

Heritage, Tourism & Hospitality International Conference 2020

Living Heritage and Sustainable Tourism

Mendrisio Ticino Switzerland – April 6-8, 2020

The 4th Heritage, Tourism, and Hospitality Conference (HTHIC2020) will bring together tourism and hospitality researchers, practitioners and policymakers to discuss ways to attract tourists while engagin all stakeholders in contributing to preservation of natural and cultural heritage. The conference will be held in Mendrisio in the Italian speaking Canton Ticino, Switzerland, a captivating example of ‘living’ tangible and intangible heritage.

HTHIC2020 is organised by the UNESCO Chair in ICT to develop and promote sustainable tourism in World Heritage Sites at USI – Università della Svizzera italiana (Lugano, Switzerland) and consultancy Elgin & Co. (Netherlands) in collaboration with the UNESCO-UNITWIN Network “Culture, Tourism, and Development”. The conference theme evolves around “Living Heritage and Sustainable Tourism” with Mendrisio, in the Italian speaking Canton Ticino, as a fascinating example of ‘living’ tangible and intangible heritage.

The conference is endorsed by the UNESCO-UNITWIN Network “Culture, Tourism, and Development”.

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Travel & Tourism Impact Statistics by State

According to the U.S. Travel Association, Travel and Tourism are essential to the U. S Economy with a direct impact of $1.1 trillion in travel spending. Travel generates $171 billion in tax revenue and 8.9 million jobs with payrolls of $268 billion. Based on 2018 figures, the total impact of Travel and Tourism nationwide generated $2.5 trillion in economic output and 15.7 million American jobs. Tourism is the 7th largest employer of all industries in the United States with one in ten U.S. non-farm jobs are supported by travel.

To review Travel and Tourism Impact data by state, visit https://www.ustravel.org/economic-impact#. You can select any state on the Economic Impact Map to view and download individual state reports showing Travel spending, tax receipts, and employment.

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Source: U.S. Travel Association

February is Black History Month

This month is Black History Month. Let’s all pay tribute during the entire month of FEBRUARY to generations of African Americans who have faced adversity and triumphed to achieve full American citizenship. Visit AfricanAmericanHistoryMonth.gov to learn about The Library of Congress exhibit showcasing the Rosa Parks collection. The expansive Parks’ collection includes 1000s of pages of personal correspondence, papers and other writings, letters from presidents, and about 2,500 photos, as well as her Presidential Medal of Freedom and Congressional Gold Medal.

Visit the Rosa Parks exhibition »
View the Rosa Parks collection »

Other Dedicated Web Sites

Smithsonian Education – Black History Month

National Park Service – African American Heritage

National Archives – African American History Portal

National Endowment for the Humanities – African American History and Culture

National Park Service – African American Heritage

United States Holocaust Memorial Museum – Black History Month

NPS Connected Conservation Webinar Series

The National Park Service’s Connected Conservation Webinar Series is focused on gateway communities and their unique opportunity to support conservation, drive economic development and build thriving communities. Plan on joining any one or all of the following informative webinars which are open to the public.

February 19, 2020, 3 PM ET — Balancing Nature & Commerce in Gateway Communities. Join Katie Allen and Kendra Briechle with The Conservation Fund to learn how gateway communities near parks can have vibrant economies while also conserving natural, cultural, and recreation assets.

March 10, 2020, 3 PM ET — NPS Partnership Tools to Enhance Gateway Communities. Join Bob Ratcliffe and Donnie Leadbetter with the National Park Service to learn about the numerous partnership tools available to enhance gateway communities; improve connectivity with parks; and encourage sustainable tourism.

April 23, 2020, 3 PM ET — Boulder, Colorado’s Open Space. Join Deryn Wagner and Mark Davison with the City of Boulder, Colorado, to learn what Boulder has done and is doing to conserve open space and become a more sustainable city.

May 6, 2020, 3 PM ET — Creating Bearwise Communities. Join Linda Masterson, author of Living With Bears Handbook, and Dan Gibbs, Tennessee Wildlife Resources Agency and co-chair of BearWise, to learn how gateway communities near parks can protect people and bears by becoming BearWise.

June 17, 2020, 3 PM ET — Partnering with Communities to Conserve Battlefields. Join Adam Gillenwater with the American Battlefield Trust to learn how they partner with communities to conserve historic sites and battlefields, some of which took place in town.

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