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RGS-IGB Annual International Conference 2016, London - 30th August - 2nd September.
CFP: New Directions in Heritage Tourism
Sponsored by: the Geographies of Leisure and Tourism Research Group (GLTRG)
Date for abstracts (250 words): Friday 12th February
Convenors: Dr Jacqueline Tivers (St. Mary's University, London); Dr Catherine Palmer (University of Brighton)
Jacqueline and I warmly invite you to submit an abstract for what we intend to be a stimulating and constructive session.
Session Abstract
What does 'heritage' mean in the 21st century? Traditional ideas of heritage and heritage tourism involve places where objects, landscapes, and ideas are venerated and reproduced over time, but old definitions may not fit the wide range of phenomena now claimed as 'heritage' for tourism purposes. Primarily for economic, but also in some cases for cultural reasons, sectors such as ecotourism, culinary tourism and religious tourism together with ‘new’ destinations such as post conflict sites or sea ports ‘adopted’ by cruise companies have employed the 'heritage' label to attract tourists. Thus, the commodification of history has been extended to include the proactive production of heritage products and experiences (Macleod, 2010; Tzanelli, 2013) bearing little relationship to either a real or an imagined past. In addition to the economic arguments that support the development of such products and experiences heritage is employed to interpret the past in the present. As such what is labelled as heritage, by whom and for what purposes requires further investigation. We need to better understand how heritage is classified and ‘used’, interpreted and experienced, how it is imagined, remembered, memorialised and contested. This session invites papers offering new directions in the geographies of heritage tourism; approaches seeking to identify and interrogate the connections between 'industry' supply and consumer demand, between economic needs and cultural representations, and between the forces that shape how the past is employed in the present.
Theoretical and empirical perspectives are welcome as are different disciplinary contributions.
Potential topics (but not limited to these) are:
* The meaning of 'heritage' to tourists
* Heritage 'creation'
* Destroyed 'heritage' as tourist attraction
* Contested heritage
* The impact of films/TV on heritage tourism
* Ecotourism/ cruise tourism/ religious tourism/ food and drink tourism and 'heritage'
* The use of a 'heritage' label in 'new' tourist destinations
* Embodied experiences of heritage tourists
* Heritage performance
Please send abstracts of 250 words to: Catherine Palmer ([log in to unmask]<mailto:[log in to unmask]>) by Friday 12th February.
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Dr Catherine Palmer
Principal Lecturer: Anthropology and Tourism
Deputy Director Postgraduate Research Studies: College of Arts and Humanities
Joint series editor: Routledge Advances in Tourism Anthropology
Personal page: http://about.brighton.ac.uk/sasm/about-us/contacting-staff/academic-staff/cap/
Centre for Sport, Tourism and Leisure Research
University of Brighton
United Kingdom
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