Heritage Tourism
  1. The Heritage Tourism Master Plan for New Jersey
  2. Task Force Mission and Goals
  3. Task Force Members
  4. Tourism Studies, Reports and Resources

  1. The Heritage Tourism Master Plan for New Jersey


    View the New Jersey Heritage Tourism Master Plan.

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  2. Task Force Mission and Goals

    The mission of the New Jersey Heritage Tourism Task Foce is to improve New Jersey's performance in the regional and national heritrage tourism market.

    The Task Force was established by the legislature (P.L. 2006, Ch. 60) and is charged with conducting a survey and inventory of New Jersey’s historic resources, establishing a signage and marker program and promoting coordination among New Jersey’s historic sites. The Task Force will also encourage the State, counties and municipalities to focus on heritage tourism. Finally, the Task Force has been charged with identifying stable sources of funding for the enhancement, maintenance and interpretation of our historic sites.  


    The goals of the Task Force are to:

    • Conduct inventories and surveys of all state potential and recognized historic sites
    • Establish signage and historic marker program
    • Promote coordination of historic sites throughout New Jersey
    • Enhance the efforts of State, county and municipal government agencies to focus on heritage tourism
    • Identify potential sources of stable funding for maintenance of historic sites available for heritage tourists


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  3. Task Force Members

    There are seventeen task force members. 

    Cate Litvack, Chair
    Executive Director, Crossroads of the American Revolution Association

    Leslie Bensley, Vice Chair
    Executive Director, Morris County Visitors Center

    John Seitter, Vice Chair

    Dorothy Guzzo, Treasurer
    Executive Director, New Jersey Historic Trust

    Amy Cradic, Asst. DEP Commissioner for Natural and Historic Resources

    Cindy Bloom-Cronin, NJ Scenic Byway Coordinator, serving as an alternate for Kris Kolluri, Commissioner, Department of Transportation

    Mary Bustillo Donohue, Vice Chair, Historic New Bridge Landing
    Carol Herbert, Chair, NJ State Council on the Arts

    Marc Mappen, former Executive Director, NJ Historical Commission

    Ann Marie Miller, Executive Director, ArtPride NJ

    Dan Saunders, Acting Deputy Historic Preservation Officer

    Sandra Turner-Barnes, Executive Director,Camden County Cultural & Heritage Commission

    Clifford Whithem, Professor of Business Studies and Director of Hospitality Mangement,The Richard Stockton College

    Nancy Zerbe, President, ARCH2, Inc.

    Michael Zuckerman, Executive Director, Mid-Atlantic Center for the Arts

    Janice Selinger, Acting Executive Director, NJ Public Broadcasting

    Director, NJ Office of Travel and Tourism

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  4. Tourism Studies, Reports and Resources

    In 2007 the NJ Historical Commission funded An Assessement of State Historical Marker Programs.

    Download the Heritage Marker Assessment. [3.3 MB pdf file]

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