Creating an Authentic Tourist Site? The Australian Standing Stones, Glen Innes

Connell, John; Rugendyke, Barbara

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“…The notion of creating cultural authenticity in distinctive sites in the diaspora, such as this, underpins the work of Connell and Rugendyke (2010) who have suggested that destinations, seeking to sustain regional economies, arbitrarily construct an identity and market a brand based on linking themes of past heritage creatively. Although they contend the town has little real connection to Celtic heritage, they also assert Glen Innes has determined the Celtic Country brand effectively.…”

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“…Other regional towns in NSW, such as Maclean and Bundanoon, have also worked strategically to leverage specific Scottish heritage STANDING STONES, FESTIVAL, AND THE CELTIC DIASPORA 233 into the tourism branding destination development (Connell & Rugendyke, 2010). However, Glen Innes is the only town to have recreated the Standing Stones as a key tourist attraction and in so doing has created a venue and dramatic backdrop to the Australian Celtic Festival.…”

Section: Leveraging Celtic Identity In Tourism Eventsmentioning

confidence: 97%

“…To some commentators, deliberate place making can create superficial links to heritage that is manipulated to satisfy individual and group fascination with nostalgia (Connell & Rugendyke, 2010). Yet others see place making as a natural process, which absorb cultural heritage as the product to reassert identity for local and tourist consumption (Chhabra, Healy, & Sills, 2003;Picard & Robinson, 2006).…”

Section: Leveraging Celtic Identity In Tourism Eventsmentioning

confidence: 97%

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Standing Stones, Festival, and the Celtic Diaspora

Mackellar¹,

Derrett²

2015

Tourism Culture & Communication

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Ancestral homelands continue to influence the identities and tourism behaviors of populations living in a diaspora. Festivals create a time and space to reflect on the collective myths where aspects of emotional memory can find creative expression through communal celebration with others. This article explores the influence of Celtic diaspora in reimagining rituals, symbols, and ceremonies to create new multisensory experiences, and further how these can be incorporated into the process of designing and delivering festival experiences. The experiences of audiences and event stakeholders at the Australian Celtic Festival in Glen Innes, Australia offer a case study that examines the emergence of a flourishing annual festival with Celtic heritage at its core. The research uses a mixedmethod approach of stakeholder interviews and participant surveys to examine various perspectives of the event, from which the emergence of five key themes demonstrate how and why festivals can be manipulated to include a rich reappraisal of new spaces and places while maintaining selected elements of identity and homelands. Further, findings show that the festival activities facilitate the links between the communication of culture within tourism spaces.

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Section: Leveraging Celtic Identity In Tourism Eventsmentioning

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Section: Leveraging Celtic Identity In Tourism Eventsmentioning

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Standing Stones, Festival, and the Celtic Diaspora

Mackellar¹,

Derrett²

2015

Tourism Culture & Communication

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“…At different scales, the economic and infrastructure gains from tourism may favour distant rather than local people, simultaneously with the emergence of new local inequalities between those who have been able to benefit from tourism and those excluded (Connell & Rugendyke 2008, Gezon 2014, Mathis & Rose 2016, Naidoo & Sharpley 2016), sometimes exacerbated by an influx of outsiders. Power infuses all relationships and tourism emphasizes asymmetrical political power within and beyond islands, with supply chains firmly coordinated by actors elsewhere (Cheer et al 2017).…”

Section: Tourism: Incrementalism Governance and Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Figueroa & Rotarou 2016, Mathis & Rose 2016, Rockett & Ramsey 2016) and may initially welcome external proposals. Local culture may be lost or commodified (Picard 1996, Mackenzie 1998, Connell & Rugendyke 2008, Macleod 2013), but, here as elsewhere, losses may be compensated for by economic growth.…”

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Islands: balancing development and sustainability?

Connell

2018

Envir. Conserv.

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SUMMARYThis overview explores sustainable development in island contexts. More subtle and complex concepts of sustainable development have become manifest in the Sustainable Development Goals, with tensions between social, economic and environmental objectives at different scales as livelihoods acquire greater flexibility and islands face multiple challenges to development. Islands are part of rapidly changing and wider worlds, while sustainability is complicated by global change, as debates over strategies and time periods are accentuated in constrained island contexts. Development and sustainability have repeatedly acquired new meanings, hence requiring new analytical techniques, planning objectives and effective governance and management. Progress towards sustainable development in islands and island states is hampered by multi-scalar challenges, including limited biodiversity, migration, external interventions and directives, scarce human resources, weak management, inadequate data (and problems of interpretation), social divisions and tensions and simultaneous quests for modernity and conservation. The tourism sector emphasizes how sustainable development is particularly difficult to achieve in small islands where access to adequate livelihoods is important and limited change is possible.

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“Druids Down Under”: Australian Druidry as Adaptation and Innovation

Cusack

2024

Palgrave Studies in New Religions and Alternative Spiritualities

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Creating an Authentic Tourist Site? The Australian Standing Stones, Glen Innes

Cited by 15 publications

References 6 publications

Standing Stones, Festival, and the Celtic Diaspora

Standing Stones, Festival, and the Celtic Diaspora

Islands: balancing development and sustainability?

“Druids Down Under”: Australian Druidry as Adaptation and Innovation

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