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Maybe it's about time that the people who stand to benefit from tourism etc actually got off their backsides and did some of this organisational work themselves instead of expecting governments to do it for them.
Many great strides forward in tourism and general heritage support have been made by local chambers of commerce and even wealthy entrepreneurs, there is no reason that most of the areas being cut could not be supported within communities and in the current economic climate there is no shortage of unemployed people to help out (including myself!!)
A more personal and less bureaucratic approach would undoubtedly favour many heritage sites and would serve to connect local people to places many of them hardly know the existence of.
Something is not right. This message is just to keep things from messing up down the road