Media for interpretation

Media for interpretation

Media for example published material

Media for interpretation for example published material for Tower of London:

•    Fact-sheets

•     Guidebooks for palace,

•     Press kits,

•      Fact sheets,

•      Online photographic library,

•      Newsletters,

•     Groups and travel trade manuals.

By Melissa and Oksana

Evaluate methods and media used for interpretation within heritage and cultural industry for tourists.

Media for interpretation: media for example published material

Thanks to a partnership there has been a contribution more than £17000 by VisitScotland to promote Loch Ness as the perfect place to take a short break.

To attract tourists from England and Central Scotland, Destination Loch Ness (organization) uses a part of the grant to develop its online activity with social media such as Twitter, Facebook, Flickr and YouTube.

The £34,600 marketing campaign includes a £17,300 contribution from the VisitScotland Growth Fund.

 The Tourism Minister Fergus Ewing intends to position Scotland as a first class destination for both business and leisure tourism.

Loch Ness is one of Scotland’s most appreciated and globally recognised attractions. It is a good point because Destinations Loch Ness is a not for profit organisation and its aim is to capitalise the natural beauty, culture heritage face up to the area's tourism, local businesses and communities.

With the VisitScotland Growth Fund some organisations like Destination Loch Ness increase their tourism revenue by attracting new target markets, increasing visitor’s numbers and developing more activities along with visitors can do more to spend and stay longer.

In 2006 the Executive Director of Destination Loch Ness said with the success' monster in our tourism industry the area has much to offer a landscape, wildlife and heritage as rich and deep as anywhere else in Scotland and many activities.

The funding of VisitScotland will help to use social media to bring more visitors and enjoy a short break by the company.

http://www.visitscotland.org/media_centre/loch_ness_growth_fund.aspx

By Melisa

Audio-visual

Audio-visual- is discovering five different tours which you can choose the Normans and before and the Medieval place. For families it tells us that three famous tower ravens guide families with blood curdling stories of prisoners and torture which where it has also been told that polar bears and leopards used to live there or that someone almost stole the Crown jewels with them tales of daring escapes, grisly execution and the disappearance of the princes which is an interactive audio tour which is suitable for children and grown-ups too. They also provide different languages for people who does not understand English or where English might not be there their first language they provide multimedia guides with a lot of different languages such as English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Russian, Dutch, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean and Chinese (Mandarin) and lots more.

By TJ

Interactive technology

Audio Sensory By Ashley

http://www.lochness.com/ 

Drama and role play

What is a Role Play?

To act out a certain problem or event either in the future or in the past.  The Tower of London employees carry out ‘Historical Re-enactments’ there are 4 main re-enactments that take place throughout the year at the Tower of London. These include;

Fortress Tower:

Recruiting of the soldiers and knights of the tower.

‘Have you got what it takes to be of one the soldier who guard the tower, or one of the knights who commands them’?

A Knights Tale:

Geoffrey Chaucer, 1390, tells his story of Chivalry, Knighthood and Romance.

Knight School:

What it took to become a knight in 1390. Be prepared for an attack on the tower!

Tudors at the Tower family festival:

Bringing the court of Anne Boleyn and Henry VIII to life, and preparing for her coronation.  

Historical Royal Palaces . (2014). Tudors at the Tower family festival .Available: http://www.hrp.org.uk/TowerOfLondon/WhatsOn/tudorsatthetower.

 Last accessed 22.05.2014.

Historical Royal Palaces. (2014). Historical Re-enactment. Available: http://www.hrp.org.uk/TowerOfLondon/WhatsOn/Historicalre-enactments.

Last accessed 22.05.2014.

By Robyn

Audio and other sensory techniques  (PDF)
By Ashley