Abstract
The heritage sector in the UK has seen unprecedented change over the past decade as a result of changes in Government attitude toward and intervention in the sector; new funding mechanisms; changes to legislation and policy; new methods of interpretation; and, in particular, the growing dynamism in the relationship between the sector and other sectors which utilise heritage as a resource. In this paper, changes in the utilisation of heritage as a resource for tourism will be reviewed, highlighting broad areas of common change and development, and will point to the notion of ‘professionalisation' as the unacknowledged facilitator in the sectors' current respective trajectories.

Keywords : Heritage, historic environment, professionalisation, visitor attractions, resource management, organisational change.

By Ian Baxter