The Foresite Mission:
Help clients create a shared vision for cultural heritage tourism by facilitating the conceptualization of a community’s mission and vision; defining their cultural heritage tourism development goals; and providing strategies and recommended actions to achieve those goals.
ForeSite employs a three-phase approach grounded in the Five Principles for Cultural Heritage Tourism Development, with a strong emphasis on community and stakeholder engagement.
Select Projects:
- Strategic Marketing Planning Process (Coastal Georgia Greenway, Inc.)
- Online Presentation of Marketing Planning Process with Board of Directors
- Development of Trail Stakeholder Survey
- Facilitation of SWOT Exercise with Board of Directors and Development of SWOT Analysis Report
- Development of an Online Customer Relations Management System
- Heritage Tourism Development Assessment (Rutherford County, KY)
- Tourism Inventory Survey
- Presentation / Public Forum to Overview Cultural Heritage Tourism
- SWOT Exercise, Analysis, and Report
- Development of Online Stakeholder Survey & Analysis
- Development of Visitors Survey
- Tourism Development Assessment Report with Recommendations
- Presentation / Public Forum to Overview Assessment Highlights and Recommendations
- Cultural Resources Management Plan (Richland County SC)
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- Inventory of Cultural Resources
- Overview of Historic Surveys and Contexts
- Overview of Resource Preservation Initiatives
- Resource Management Plan with Goals & Strategies
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- Artists and Craftsmen Directory (Tennessee Overhill Heritage Organization)
- Strategic Business & Marketing Plans (Henderson County Education Foundation, Inc., Hendersonville NC)
- County Heritage Tourism Plan part of a 25-county National Heritage Area Plan (Henderson County SC)
Select Client List
Blue Ridge Community College
Blue Ridge Farm Direct Market Association
Bullington Gardens and Horticultural Center
Coastal Georgia Greenway
Downtown Hendersonville Main Street Program
Entrepreneurship New Ventures Institute
Environmental and Conservation Organization (ECO)
Fletcher Arts & Heritage Organization
Henderson County Chamber of Commerce
Henderson County Education Foundation
Henderson County Travel & Tourism
Historic (Henderson County) Courthouse
Letcher County Tourism and Convention Commission
NC Apple Growers Association
North Shore Promotional Alliance (Long Island Heritage Trail/Washington Spy Trail)
Polk County Travel & Tourism
Richland County Conservation Commission
Rutherford County Convention and Visitors Bureau
Southeast Watershed Forum
Tennessee Overhill Heritage Organization
The Henderson County Education Foundation
The Mill Center for the Arts
The Ward Melville Heritage Organization
