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Du Cros, Hilary

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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.

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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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References

  • Du Cros, H. & Y.F. Lee. (ed.) 2007. Cultural heritage management in China: preserving the Pearl River Delta cities. New York: Routledge.

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  • McKercher, B. & H. Du Cros.(ed.) 2002. Cultural tourism: the partnership between tourism and cultural heritage management. Binghamton (NY): The Haworth Press.

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Further Reading

  • Di Giovine, M.A. 2009. The heritage-scape: UNESCO, world heritage, and tourism. Lanham: Lexington Books.

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  • Du Cros, H. 2002. Much more than stones & bones: Australian archaeology in the late twentieth century. Melbourne: Melbourne University Publishing.

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  • Du Cros, H. & L. Smith. (ed.) 1993. Women in archaeology: a feminist critique. Canberra: Department of Prehistory, Australian National University.

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  • Leask, A. & A. Fyall. 2006. Managing world heritage sites. Amsterdam: BH/Elsevier.

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  • 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.

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  • Timothy, D.J. & S.W. Boyd. 2003. Heritage tourism. Harlow, Essex: Prentice-Hall.

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  • 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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