Hillary du Cros is an Australian archaeologist and cultural tourism teacher in Hong Kong and Macau.
[2] She has made significant contributions to the challenge of developing cultural heritage sites, including in various journals and full-length books.
Du Cros had begun her higher education in Australia, earning a BA from the University of Sydney.
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 from 2011-2015[7][8] 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.