Hilary du Cros

Dr. Hillary du Cros is an Australian archaeologist and cultural tourism teacher in Hong Kong and Macau. 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.[1]

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. 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 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 in 208-9,[2] 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.[3]

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