Hilary du Cros

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Hillary du Cros is an Australian archaeologist and cultural tourism teacher in Hong Kong and Macau. [1] She is currently Associate Professor, Hong Kong Institute of Education, teaching in the area of Cultural Tourism in the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts. [2] She has made significant contributions to the challenge of developing cultural heritage sites, including in various journals and full-length books. [3] [4] [5]

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Education

She completed a Phd at Monash University in 1996 on the topic Committing archaeology in Australia, which was published as Much More than Stones & Bones: Australian Archaeology in the Late Twentieth Century in 2002. Du Cros had begun her higher education in Australia, earning a BA from the University of Sydney. [6]

Career

du Cros worked as an archaeologist and cultural heritage consultant from 1984 to 1998, operating her own consultancy firm from 1991-8, 'du Cros & Associates' in Melbourne, Australia. In 1998 she sold her consulting business to Biosis Research and moved to Hong Kong.

She was appointed Senior Research Coordinator for the UNESCO Observatory for Research in Local Cultures and Creativity in Education from 2011-2015 [7] [8] and has published in Annals of Tourism Research, Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Historic Environment, and the Journal of Heritage Tourism, as well as a number of books. [7]

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References

  1. "Dr Hilary du Cros - Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage - University of Birmingham". www.birmingham.ac.uk. Retrieved 18 January 2019.
  2. "Biography - Hilary Du Cros - Education: College | University - Hong Kong". Archived from the original on 9 September 2013. Retrieved 18 September 2013.
  3. du Cros, Hilary; Mckercher, Bob (2002). Cultural tourism : the partnership between tourism and cultural heritage management. Florence, United Kingdom: Haworth Hospitality Press. ISBN   978-1-136-61515-3.
  4. McKercher, Bob; Ho, Pamela S.Y.; du Cros, Hilary (August 2005). "Relationship between tourism and cultural heritage management: evidence from Hong Kong". Tourism Management. 26 (4): 539–548. doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2004.02.018. hdl: 10397/20991 . S2CID   154480380.
  5. du Cros, Hilary (March 2001). "A new model to assist in planning for sustainable cultural heritage tourism". International Journal of Tourism Research. 3 (2): 165–170. doi:10.1002/jtr.297.
  6. Smith, Claire, ed. "Du Gros, Hilary." Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. New York, NY: Springer, 2014. 2199.
  7. 1 2 Linkedin profile
  8. IFT Professor, Consultant to UNWTO Mission
  9. Du Cros, Hilary (2002). Much more than stones and bones: Australian archaeology in the late twentieth century. Carlton, Vic: Melbourne University Press. ISBN   9780522850208.