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August 04, 2008 - The Heritage Destination Consulting website, www.heritagedestination.com 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”.
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