Encore -- Sustainability in tourism [electronic resource] : a multidisciplinary approach / edited by Ian Jenkins, Roland Schröder. Today travel and tourism have evolved beyond an annual trip to the seaside. Long-haul flights around the globe are fully booked with both business and leisure travelers; health tourism is expanding exponentially and religious travel continues to support a significant portion of tourism in some countries.
The age of mass tourism, whilst making travel affordable for all societal groups, has also created environmental problems on both a micro and macro level. A key question is therefore how can tourism be made more sustainable? Under the broad umbrella of sustainable development, this book examines sustainable tourism by taking into account factors such as media, business profitability, educational inclusiveness, political and community needs, medical tourism and aspects of sustainable labeling and marketing. Furthermore, each author offers perspectives on methods that industry and governments might employ to create more sustainable practices and policies. Boost in English museum visits. More than 4 million visits were made to museums and galleries funded by the Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) in February, up 5% from the previous year, according to official monthly statistics published last week.
Most of the museums and galleries experienced an annual rise in visitors, with some expected exceptions such as Tate St Ives and the Imperial War Museum London, which were both closed in February for redevelopments. Others, such as the National Media Museum in Bradford and the National Railway Museum in York, both part of the Science Museum Group, saw slight falls in February compared to the same month in 2013. In London, the British Museum and the Sir John Soane’s Museum also had a slight reduction in visitors in February compared to the previous year. Although attendance rates increased in every English region, it was highest in London (59.6%) and lowest in the West Midlands (47.2%). Concern over plans to split English Heritage. A parliamentary debate on the government’s proposals to split English Heritage into two organisations has raised concerns about its financial viability going forward. A consultation paper into the future of the organisation proposes that from 2015 English Heritage will become a new charity charged with running the national heritage collection, including Stonehenge, Kenwood House, and Audley End.
Its current responsibilities for conserving England’s historic environment will be delivered by a separate body to be called Historic England. Under the proposals, English Heritage will be self-financing by 2023, but will receive an initial £80m grant to address repairs to existing properties. Jenny Chapman, who called the debate, said the most significant concerns centred on the financial model, whether the new charity could achieve self-sustainability in the timeframe proposed, and how that would affect its resources. “Nothing will change under the new model,” said culture minister Edward Vaizey.
The end of permanence. I’m leaving the MA after 25 years, so I’m looking at the key changes in UK museums over the past quarter century.Last week I argued that the most significant change has been that museums are now far closer to people than they used to be. Museum attitudes to collections have changed, too. In the early 1990s, there was a strong belief that once something entered a museum collection it should remain there, being carefully preserved for ever. Museums, as the saying went, ingested, but did not excrete. Disposal was seen as a problem area, something to be avoided. In part this was because of lack of confidence and an over-literal relativism that led some curators (and conservators) to be reluctant to make judgments about what things in collections were the most important – and therefore which ones might be unimportant and so not worth keeping.
Things changed, in part because of the Museums Association’s seminal Collections for the Future report. Art, popular culture and cultural policy: variations on a theme of John Carey - O'CONNOR - 2006 - Critical Quarterly.