Performing Cultural Tourism

Susan Carson, Associate Professor, teaches and researches in the Creative Industries Faculty at Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. She received her PhD from the University of Queensland, Brisbane, and now publishes in the fields of cultural tourism, Australian studies and postgraduate pedagogy. Susan’s most recent publication in the tourism sector is ‘Literature, tourism and the city: Writing and cultural change’ with Lesley Hawkes, Kari Gislason and Kate Cantrell in the Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change (2016). She reviews submissions for international journals in the tourism sector as well as for creative industries journals, and is the co-author of a national Australian government Office of Learning and Teaching report into creative practice-led research in Australian universities (2014). Mark Pennings is a Senior Lecturer in Art History and Theory in Visual Arts in the Creative Industries Faculty of the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia. Pennings’ research interests include visual arts, cultural tourism, the experience economy, cultural and political theory, social and sporting history and pedagogy in international learning. He teaches postwar and contemporary art, and runs study tours to New York City and Tokyo. Pennings has produced many art reviews, catalogue essays and articles in journals such as Art Forum, Art Monthly, Art and Australia and Eyeline. He has presented national and international conference papers in the field of cultural tourism, and is interested in the impact of corporate culture on the infrastructures of tourism in a global experience economy. He has studied art and art museums in experiencescapes, and has examined the role of Museum of Old and New Art (Hobart) and the Gallery of Modern Art (Brisbane) in Australian cultural tourism.

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Methodologies of touristic exchange: an introduction

SUSAN CARSON

PART I Cooperation, exchange negotiation: the shared needs of Indigenous communities and cultural tourists

1 ‘Temporary belonging’: Indigenous cultural tourism and community art centres

SALLY BUTLER

2 Saving Sagada

PATRICIA MARIA SANTIAGO

3 Native American communities and community development: the case of Navajo Nation

CHRISTINE N. BUZINDE, VANESSA VANDEVER AND GYAN NYAUPANE

PART II The cultural tourist, social media and self-exploration

4 Investigating the role of virtual peer support in Asian youth tourism

HILARY DU CROS

5 Doing literary tourism – an autoethnographic approach

TIM MIDDLETON

6 Creative cultural tourism development: a tourist perspective

ZHANG YANG AND PHILIP XIE

7 #travelselfie: a netnographic study of travel identity communicated via Instagram

ULRIKE GRETZEL

PART III Cultural precincts, events and managing tourist and community expectations

8 The creative turn: cultural tourism at Australian convict heritage sites

SUSAN CARSON AND JOANNA HARTMANN

9 Cultural tourism and the Olympic movement in Greece

EVANGELIA KASIMATI AND NIKOLAOS VAGIONIS

10 Local/global: David Walsh’s Museum of Old and New Art and its impact on the local community and the Tasmanian tourist industry

MARK PENNINGS

Conclusion

SUSAN CARSON AND MARK PENNINGS

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