The big cities are still magnets for tourists, but often they find the smaller towns offer a more satisfying taste of local life. It’s why rural tourism can be ‘the perfect small town business idea’.
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Many cities could learn from Dundee, which overcame industrial decline to become a UNESCO City of Design, with a shiny new cityscape to match
The annual Burning Man Festival creates a temporary city in Nevada’s Black Rock Desert. In many ways, it’s an innovation lab for rethinking cities.
Melbourne’s street art has an international reputation and may be a very valuable tourist attraction. But the city remains ambivalent about the activities that have created its ‘laneway galleries’.
The ubiquitous cafes across Australian cities attract locals and tourists alike, but surely there’s more to thriving neighbourhoods than a flat white.
In the era of neoliberal capitalism, both the ideology of Pan-Africanism and the legacy of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade have become marketable commodities.
Social media is changing the way we travel, with people increasingly eager to visit Instagram-worthy destinations. Has a place’s visual appeal become more important than its history and authenticity?
Uluru’s traditional owners have asked for decades that tourists not climb their sacred site. Parks Australia has committed to closing the climb – but only when some ambitious goals have been met.
How do we move beyond being a cultural tourist to having some deeper level of understanding of what local festivals mean to the people involved? That question has been on my mind of late. Just before midnight…
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Visiting Associate Professor, National Taiwan Normal University
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Karine Dupré is a Friend of The Conversation.
Professor in Architecture, Griffith University
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Visiting Fellow, Australian National University
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Lecturer, Monash University, Monash University
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PhD Researcher, Research Unit in Public Cultures, The University of Melbourne
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Assistant Professor of Communication, Elon University
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Assistant Professor of History, Georgia Southern University
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Lecturer in Tourism and Management, Academic Director (Education Quality and Assurance), Swinburne University of Technology
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Professor and Dean of Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design, University of Dundee
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MA of Creative Events Management, Griffith University
