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Cultural Tourism or a Tourism Culture? A survey of the Impact of Tourism on Tasmanian Society 1860 – 1991: Peter MacFie, Centre for Tasmanian Studies, UTAS, August 1991, 20pp.
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Growth of the heritage tourism industry coincides with a critical turning point in the lives of many Tasmanians who are still coming to terms with the island’s convict past. Something has been going on in our minds – the shutting out of a painful experience causing reactive behaviour in people – just when tourism seeks to capitalise on the surviving past; the buildings, the records, myths and memories. What is the impact on the island’s society? What do we feel to be valuable? Tourism imposes and interferes with our understanding of ourselves.
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Cultural tourism can educate and broaden the visitor or local. Our interest in history should precede and direct an interest in tourism and not the reverse. What about the impact of cultural tourism in Tasmania?? The impact is not new. In 1890 a newspaper noted:
“Once again we must be permitted to observe that all this Quixotic fuss and flutter about providing amusement for ‘Our Visitors’ is going just a little bit too far. Don’t let us make ourselves ridiculous. The visitors are well able to look after themselves, and don’t want to enjoy their outings with their evening dress clothes on. Is Mount Wellington to be planted with strawberries? Are wild cows to be turned out on the Ploughed Field so as to have cream on the spot? Are toothpicks to be supplied all round, and postage stamps given away at all the hotels? How much further is this business to go? We are very glad indeed to see our Australian cousins, but we can’t promise to wet-nurse them (the Hon. N.J. Brown says dry-nurse) all round. They come to Tasmania for a rough-and-tumble pic-nic, and don’t want to do it arrayed in velvet and fine linen.[1]”
The phrase ‘cultural tourism’ has become popular in recent years in Australia and Tasmania, but the definition and wider implications of the term are little understood, especially by those in the tourist or heritage industry. About 1989, Tasmania held a ‘Japan Week’; included were artefacts and costumed attendants from a Shinto shrine. These were supplied by the Japanese Ministry of Culture. In Tasmania the week’s events were directed and promoted by the Department of Tourism. The difference in emphasis symbolises the varying contrasts to cultural tourism – In Tasmania it seems we have a ‘Tourism Culture’, rather than ‘Cultural Tourism
[1] Tasmanian Mail, 1.2.1890 p. 26.
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Index
A Burglars Life
Aborigines
Backhouse, James
Ballarat
Beattie, John Watt
Beechworth
Bjelke-Petersen, Marie
brass bands
Brickfields Invalid Department
Bridges, Roy
Bridgewater
brothels
built heritage
Burnie
bushrangers
Butler-Stoney, Henry
Button, Henry
Campbell Town
Canadian political prisoners
Cara Lynn.
Cash, Martin
Cataract Gorge
chopping carnivals
churches:St David’s Cathedral
Clark, Marcus
Cleveland
convict -cringe
convict stain
Cora Lynn
Cosgrove, Robert
cultural heritage
cultural tourism
Curr, Edward
Daniels, Kay
Davis, Norma
Deloraine
Deloraine Improvement Association
Denison, Sir William
du Cane, Sir Charles
Eaglehawk Neck
emancipists
Emmett, Evelyn Temple
employment of historians
Evandale
Evans, George
film backgrounds
Flanagan, Richard
Frost, John
Fry, Rev. Henry Phibbs
Greener, Leslie
Griffiths, Tom
guide books
Guide to Excursionists from the Mainland to Tasmania
Gunn, Ronald
Handbook for Tasmania
hated stain
heritage industry
heritage tourism industry
Hill, ?
historians in residence
Historical Brevities of Tasmania
historical societies
history curricula
Hobart
Hoe, Donald
holidays
Home for Old Men and Women, Launceston
How Much for the Whole World
inns:Bridge Inn
inns:Fox and Hounds
interpretation
Jeffrey, Mark
Jericho
Kelly, Ned
Kimberley
Lancaster, G.B.
Launceston
Launceston and City Suburban Improvement Association
Leahey, Caroline
libraries
Lloyd Robson, Leslie
Lovell, S.O.
Mackie, Fred
Manning Clark, Charles
Maydena
McShane, Ian
Mechanics Institutes
memorial avenues
Meredith, Louisa Anne (Mrs Charles)
Midlands
Milne, Christine
Model Prison
Moore-Robinson, J
Mt Field National Park
Mulvaney, John
Mundy, Godfrey Charles
National Trust
New Norfolk Asylum
New Town
Nubeena
Oatlands
Ogilvy family
O’May, Harry
Pageant
Penguin
Penitentiary
photos, historic
Port Arthur
Port Arthur Ghost tours
Port Arthur Management Authority
Port Arthur Management Plan
poverty
Prinsep, Augustus
properties:Inverquainty
Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery
Queen Victoria’s jubilee
Queens Asylum for Destitute Children
Queens Orphanage
Rechabites
re-writing history
Richmond
rifle clubs
Rocky Cape
Ross
running races
Scott, Thomas
selective amnesia
Shadow of Tasmania
shipsSS Flora
Smith O’Brien, William
Smith, Coitman
Southport
Sovereign Hill
Spence, James
St Johns Park
Stanley
Sullivan, Sharon
swamp gum
Swansea
Swansea and Spring Bay Tourist Bureau
Tasmania
Tasmania: its First Century
Tasmanian Tourist Association
Tasmanian Tourist Department
tea-tree
television shows
Term of His Natural Life
The Broad Arrow
theatres
theft:historic artifacts
theft:historic memories
theft:historic photographs
Thomas, Henry
Thornley, William
Torr, Jane
tourism
tourism culture
tourism developments
Tourist Association
tourist gimmicks
tourist guide-books
tourist-authors
Transportation System
travel agents
travel writers
Trollope, Anthony
Uzzell, David
Van Diemen’s Land Company
Walker, George
Wang Gunguru
Weldon, Tony
Westbury
wheel races
Whitlam, Gough
wilderness issue
Willson, Bishop Robert
Wood, George Arnold
work experience in history
World War I memorials
Wynyard