Graham Brooks

Managing Director, The Heritage Consultancy;
Chairman Emeritus, AusHeritage Ltd.

Graham is a conservation architect and heritage consultant, based in Sydney, Australia, where he is Managing Director of a private sector Heritage Consultancy firm.  Much of his career has centred on the conservation and heritage management of historic buildings, urban areas and cultural landscapes, conservation planning, heritage asset management and re-use of historic buildings and sites throughout Australia.  Graham is a past Chairman of the National Trust Historic Buildings Committee in New South Wales and Chairman Emeritus of AusHeritage Ltd, a cross sectoral heritage network established in the mid 1990s with the support of the Australian Government.

Graham’s work in Cultural Tourism has included extensive investigations into the relationship between tourism and heritage places, throughout Europe, South East Asia and the Pacific.  His interest and expertise in Cultural Tourism Management is based on extensive travels and research since the mid 1970s, including to over 300 World Heritage Sites, and participation in numerous international projects and workshops.  Graham is the current President of the ICOMOS International Cultural Tourism Committee and was the coordinating author for the ICOMOS International Cultural Tourism Charter (1999) and the UNWTO Tourism Congestion Management at Cultural and Heritage Sites: A Guidebook (2005).  He represented ICOMOS on the World Heritage Sustainable Tourism Initiative programme developed by the UNESCO World Heritage Centre.  He has been a member of international expert advisory panels for Borobudur and Prambanan Temple Compounds in Indonesia and the Ajanta/Ellora Rock Cut Temple Caves in India, and contributed to the development of the Lijiang Principles project initiated by UNESCO Bangkok to promote the capture, by host communities, of socio-economic benefits from tourism.  A current project, again on behalf of the UN World Tourism Organisation, is the development of a new handbook for the tourism sector on Communicating Heritage.