Basic Biographical Information
Hilary du Cros earned her B.A. from the University of Sydney and her Ph.D. from Monash University in Melbourne. From 2005 to 2010, Dr. du Cros was a professor at the Institute for Tourism Studies in Macao, and from 2005 to 2009, she was a lecturer at the University of Hong Kong. Currently, she is an associate professor in the Department of Cultural and Creative Arts at the Hong Kong Institute of Education, a position she has held since 2010. Her research interests include cultural heritage management and tourism, specifically as it relates to Asia.
Major Accomplishments
She is currently an expert member of the ICOMOS International Scientific Cultural Tourism Committee (ISCTC) (1999–present), a HKIEd representative to the UNESCO and ICCROM-sponsored Asian Academy Heritage Management Network (2005–present).
Her most recent publications include the coauthored books Cultural Heritage Management in China: Preserving the Pearl River Delta Cities (du Cros & Lee 2007...
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Du Cros, H. & Y.F. Lee. (ed.) 2007. Cultural heritage management in China: preserving the Pearl River Delta cities. New York: Routledge.
McKercher, B. & H. Du Cros.(ed.) 2002. Cultural tourism: the partnership between tourism and cultural heritage management. Binghamton (NY): The Haworth Press.
Further Reading
Di Giovine, M.A. 2009. The heritage-scape: UNESCO, world heritage, and tourism. Lanham: Lexington Books.
Du Cros, H. 2002. Much more than stones & bones: Australian archaeology in the late twentieth century. Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing.
Du Cros, H. & L. Smith. (ed.) 1993. Women in archaeology: a feminist critique. Canberra: Department of Prehistory, Australian National University.
Leask, A. & A. Fyall. 2006. Managing world heritage sites. Amsterdam: BH/Elsevier.
Mathers, C., T. Darvill & B.J. Little. (ed.) 2005. Heritage of value, archaeology of renown. Reshaping archaeological assessment and significance. Gainesville: University Press of Florida.
Timothy, D.J. & S.W. Boyd. 2003. Heritage tourism. Harlow, Essex: Prentice-Hall.
Unesco. 2012. World heritage sites. A complete guide to 936 UNESCO world heritage sites, 4th edn. Buffalo: Firefly Books.
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Cros, H.d. (2014). Du Cros, Hilary. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_414
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