Cultural Tourism or a Tourism Culture

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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

Copyright Peter MacFie © 1991, 2018
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