- Title
- Australian Aboriginal tourism: myth or invented culture
- Creator
- Foley, Dennis
- Relation
- Tourism and the Shifting Values of Cultural Heritage: Visiting Pasts, Developing Futures - International Conference. Proceedings of Tourism and the Shifting Values of Cultural Heritage: Visiting Pasts, Developing Futures - International Conference (Taipei, Taiwan 5-9 April, 2013)
- Relation
- https://internationaltaipei2013.wordpress.com/publication-proceedings/
- Publisher
- Ironbridge International Institute for Cultural Heritage
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2013
- Description
- The cultural heritage of nation states, regions and communities is not only seen as a marker of identity but is also, more than ever, open and projected for global consumption. Domestic and international tourists visit both their own pasts and those of others through a vast diversity of tangible heritage sites – buildings, monuments, museums, landscapes etc. – and also a variety of intangible heritage rituals and performances. But the motivations and practices of those which are involved in the protection, preservation, display and management of cultural heritage can, and frequently do, differ from tourists who metaphorically ‘visit’ the past and, the tourism sector which selectively packages the past in the form of heritage. Such divergences reflect the different values attached to cultural heritage and the different value systems through which heritage is filtered. In this context, this conference seeks to examine both the tensions and opportunities in the processes of valuing and protecting cultural heritage and, in mobilising it for development purposes in the wider social sphere. We wish to explore how heritage ‘works’ in the context of shifting and mobile values and, the various ways in which tourism and tourists shape, embed and change the value of heritage in societies.
- Subject
- myth; culture; Australian Aboriginal tourism
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1328687
- Identifier
- uon:25968
- Identifier
- ISBN:9780704428393
- Language
- eng
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