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dc.contributor.authorClarke, Peter
dc.contributor.authorEastgate, Anne
dc.contributor.editorProfessor Mike Robinson
dc.date.accessioned2017-05-03T12:53:31Z
dc.date.available2017-05-03T12:53:31Z
dc.date.issued2011
dc.date.modified2012-09-14T01:40:38Z
dc.identifier.issn14766825
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/14766825.2010.527346
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/41640
dc.description.abstractThis paper argues that battlefield tours have strong religious overtones covering remembrance and sacrifice that features non-spiritual philosophies built on emotional and cultural capital. This paper canvasses views of tourism, icons, memorials and cemeteries as contributors to cultural capital. There is a view that religion and pilgrimages follow the Life Course Perspectives of religious influences on individual life stories, events and interactions. The proposition suggests that religion meets commemoration. Insights from a group of 28 visitors to the Western Front in 2008 contribute to, and support the tenets of this paper. The Western Front is a single icon built on the cultural elements of emotion, earthiness and respect rather than destination sophistication. Tourists felt the region had not succumbed to excessive or unwarranted infrastructure development that would spoil the experience. Tour party participants considered the tour to be a pilgrimage enabling the achievement of longheld personal goals, and created their own memories and heritage to compliment their family history. Ultimately, in the beliefs of Australian tourists to the Western Front, religion does meet commemoration and connects with Life Course Perspectives influences and values.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.description.publicationstatusYes
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dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherRoutledge
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom
dc.relation.ispartofstudentpublicationN
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom31
dc.relation.ispartofpageto44
dc.relation.ispartofissue1
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Tourism and Cultural Change
dc.relation.ispartofvolume9
dc.rights.retentionY
dc.subject.fieldofresearchTourist Behaviour and Visitor Experience
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCommerce, Management, Tourism and Services not elsewhere classified
dc.subject.fieldofresearchTourism
dc.subject.fieldofresearchOther Studies in Human Society
dc.subject.fieldofresearchHistory and Philosophy of Specific Fields
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode150606
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode159999
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1506
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode1699
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode2202
dc.titleCultural capital, Life Course Perspectives and Western Front battlefield tours
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Business School, Department of Marketing
gro.rights.copyright© 2011 Routledge. This is the author-manuscript version of this paper. Reproduced in accordance with the copyright policy of the publisher. Please refer to the journal website for access to the definitive, published version.
gro.date.issued2011
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gro.griffith.authorClarke, Peter D.


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