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Williamson, David

Harris, Candice

Rasmussen, Erling

Ravenswood, Katherine

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Wengel, Yana

McIntosh, Alison

Cockburn-Wooten, Cheryl

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Wang, Sisi

Hollinshead, Keith

Confucian China Today: An Analysis of the Projection of âChinesenessâ through Tourism and Related Inscriptive Fields

Todd, Louise

Leask, Anna

Ensor, John

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Sahasrabuddhe, Divya

Cheer, Joseph

Women, Voluntourism, and Empowerment

Poulston, Jill

Non-reciprocated Pleasure: The Important Distinction between Emotional and Expressive Labour in Hospitality

Pappalepore, Ilaria

 
 
Title: Cultural Quarters and Mega-Events: Will Regeneration Kill or Foster Creativity in 
Stratford? 
Author: Ilaria Pappalepore 
Affiliation: University of Westminster 
Contact: i.pappalepore@westminster.ac.uk  
Session Type: Presentation 
 
Abstract: 
Long-term legacies are expected to play a crucial part in the process of bidding and 
delivering a mega-event. Strict deadlines for delivery of Olympic infrastructure give authorities 
and developers a license to push urban regeneration plans through to approval with minimal 
consultation. As a result, all too often, local communities pay the price for the host city’s long- 
term vision. For example, in Beijing, 1.5 million people were displaced to make space for 
Olympic venues (Pohlisch, 2015), while in Rio, thousands of favela dwellers experienced violent 
evictions (The Guardian, 2015). Similarly, but somehow less famously, the Olympic Park 
developments for London 2012 involved the largest programme of legally enforced evictions in 
England (Raco & Tunney, 2010). As part of this large-scale regeneration programme, plans are 
now under way to develop a ‘world class education and cultural district’ in the Olympic Park, 
which will accommodate internationally renowned cultural and educational institutions. This 
project is part of a wider cultural legacy strategy for the Olympic Park ‘centered around 
developing east London as a creative destination with an international reputation’ (LLDC, 2014, 
p. 34). However, the area close to Stratford in Hackney is already home to established creative 
quarters, which were largely alienated during the London 2012 Games and four-year long cultural 
programme (Pappalepore & Duignan, 2016). Drawing on qualitative evidence, this paper will 
explore the development of the new cultural quarter in Stratford (east London) as a result of 
Olympic-led regeneration, and discuss the impact this is having on the existing local creative 
communities in Hackney Wick and Fish Island. The discussion will be based on primary 
research (participant observation and interviews) conducted in summer/autumn 2016. It will also 
draw on previous research conducted between 2010 and 2015. Whilst the first phase of research 
(2010–2015) highlighted a clear gap between Olympic rhetoric and local reality, preliminary 
results from the second phase (2016–present) outline a more complex picture. Qualitative data 
point at the increasing vulnerability of the local creative communities in Hackney Wick and Fish 
Island, while also revealing stories of creative resistance and collaborations between new, 
established cultural organisations and local artists. Based on the results of this research, 
recommendations for public policy and for future Olympic host cities are provided. 
 
References: 
Gospodini, A. (2009). Post-industrial trajectories of Mediterranean European cities: The case of  
post-Olympics Athens. Urban Studies, 46(5–6), 1157–1186. 
London Legacy Development Corporation [LLDC]. (2014). Arts and minds, and dreams, and  
tongues: Arts & culture strategy. London: London Legacy Development Corporation. 
Pappalepore, I., & Duignan, M.B. (2016). The London 2012 cultural programme: A  
consideration of Olympic impacts and legacies for small creative organisations in east 
London. Tourism Management, 54, 344–355. 
Pohlisch, O. (2015). Edgelands and London 2012: The case of the Lower Lea Valley. In G. 
Poynter, V. Viehoff, & Y. Li, eds., The London Olympics and Urban Development: The 
 
 
Mega-Event City. Routledge. 
Raco, M., & Tunney, E. (2010). Visibilities and invisibilities in urban development: Small  
business communities and the London Olympics 2012. Urban studies, 47(10), 2069–
2091. 
The Guardian. (2015). Forced evictions in Rio favela for 2016 Olympics trigger violent clashes.  
Available online https://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/03/forced-evictions- vila-
autodromo-rio-olympics-protests (accessed 14 December 2016). 
 
 
 
  


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Cultural Quarters and Mega-Events: Will Regeneration Kill or Foster Creativity in Stratford?

Nevert, Alais

Lapointe, Dominic

 
 
Title: Sense of Place, Neolocalism and Craft Beer: Identity Shaping through Culinary Tourism 
in Québec, Canada 
Author: Alais Nevert & Dominic Lapointe 
Affiliation: Université du Québec à Montréal 
Contact: alais.nevert@hotmail.com 
Session Type: Presentation 
 
Abstract: 
The past few decades have seen the number of craft breweries significantly increase 
across North America. The Canadian brewing industry has transitioned from an industry 
monopolized by three companies (Molson, Labatt, & Carling O’Keefe) into a diverse market. 
Canadians are now able to choose from hundreds of different producers, thousands if we count 
products from the United States. With over 150 craft breweries, Quebec is the province with the 
highest concentration in Canada and is famous for hosting many of the most renowned in the 
country and the world.  
The few studies that have taken a look at the growing phenomenon of craft breweries in 
North America have identified some links between them and what social geography calls a sense 
of place. Wes Flack (1997), the first author to address these links, defined neolocalism as the 
way craft breweries draw from their place of establishment to shape their own identity. For 
example, it can manifest in the name of the breweries and their beers, in what is depicted on the 
label and in the choice of ingredients used in the recipes. References are often geographical but 
sometimes historical or cultural. Neolocalism also manifests economically, with the push to 
consume local products, and socially, most craft breweries will participate in fundraisers, support 
different causes, and engage in sustainable practices. Craft breweries are also involved in the life 
of their communities and partner with local actors. The phenomenon is consistent with smaller 
and bigger craft breweries in both urban and rural areas. 
In Quebec, culinary tourism is seen as a development factor, particularly in outlying 
regions and rural communities. This research will therefore look at how this phenomenon is 
affecting the tourism landscape of Quebec by identifying how neolocalism manifests itself in 
Quebec craft breweries and how they themselves participate in shaping the identity and the 
development of these places. Considering that neolocalism is a successful marketing approach 
for craft breweries (Murray, 2012), we will take a particular look at the motivations of brewers to 
engage in these practices and question whether or not economical success is the driving factor. 
In a province where every region now has its own local brewery, craft breweries offer an 
interesting window into understanding relationships between sense of place and identity in a 
culinary tourism context.  
 
References: 
Flack, W. (1997). American microbreweries and neolocalism: ‘Ale-in’ for a sense of place. 
Journal of Cultural Geography, 16(2), 37–53. 
Murray, A. (2012). Factors influencing brand loyalty to craft breweries in North Carolina. 
Mémoire de maîtrise en tourisme durable, East Carolina University. 
  


Muldoon, Meghan

 
 
Title: How Not to Be a Sh#%ty Tourist 
Author: Meghan L. Muldoon 
Affiliation: University of Waterloo 
Contact: mmuldoon@uwaterloo.ca 
Session Type: Workshop 
 
Abstract: 
In this workshop, I propose to bring together conference attendees for an empowering 
and productive discussion on how to engage with the world as tourists in ways that are 
meaningful and do not Other, essentialize, or re-colonialize. I often find myself at a loss when 
asked by students and friends on how to do tourism better. This workshop is intended to provide 
attendees with ideas and inspiration for how engage with our students about the harms of tourism 
in ways that will empower them to do tourism better, rather than having them go away feeling 
overwhelmed and powerless in the face of all the harm that tourism does. 
The workshop will involve a discussion of the harms of tourism and how we engage with these 
issues in the classroom. Participants will then be broken up into smaller working groups and be 
asked to brainstorm three questions related to one particular tourism problematic: 
1. What are the issues related to this touristic practice? Also, what are the positive aspects of 
this touristic practice? 
2. Why does this practice persist? In other words, who is benefitting from or relying on this 
particular practice? 
3. What are some of the ways that we can take action to mitigate the negative impacts of this 
practice? 
Touristic practices to be explored will include animal tourism, poverty tourism, mass tourism, 
volunteer tourism, and the environmental impacts of tourism, among others. Following these 
breakout sessions, I will then facilitate a large group discussion and aim to come up with some 
strategies for how to bring these ideas back to the classroom and our own personal lives. Far 
from being a despairing retrospective on the destructive nature of tourism, my objective is that 
workshop participants will come away inspired to have the difficult discussions about sh#%ty 
tourism in ways that are productive and hopeful. 
 
 
 
  


How Not to Be a Sh#%ty Tourist

Manuel-Navarrete, David

Papenfuss, Jason

Buzinde, Christine

 
 
Title: Performance and Contemplation to Inspire Tourism Sustainability 
Author: David Manuel-Navarrete, Jason Papenfuss, & Christine Buzinde  
Affiliation: Arizona State University 
Contact: davidmn@asu.edu 
Session Type: Workshop 
 
Abstract: 
Tourism sustainability seeks to transcend sustainable tourism by suggesting that tourism 
can be a driving force for sustainability transitions beyond the sector (Manuel-Navarrete, 2016), 
or a “tool for sustainability” (Moscardo & Murphy, 2014). Tourism sustainability can draw on a 
number of complementary approaches, such as hopeful tourism (Pritchard, Morgan, & Ateljevic, 
2011). These approaches regard tourism as playing a crucial “consciousness-raising role,” 
facilitating human virtue, as well as fostering commitment to environmental and cultural 
protection (Breakey & Breakey, 2015). In order to go beyond making the tourism industry 
sustainable and to move towards the fostering of transformative tourism related experiences, new 
forms of tourism engagement have to be considered, including contemplative practices. But how 
does this work in practice? This workshop is an invitation to collectively explore this question 
through innovative forms of academic discussion. Arizona State University’s School of 
Sustainability is experimenting with “transformation-labs” that include participatory 
performance arts as well as contemplative practices. In this workshop, we will experience a 
variety of these approaches and collectively design and prototype a “tourism experience” that 
stimulates creativity and promotes self-reflection. Participants will be guided through a variety of 
contemplative and experiential practices, such as mindfulness meditation, harmonizing 
movement, dyadic listening, and others (see below for a brief description). After each exercise, 
there will be some time to collectively and creatively discuss and redesign a mock tourist 
experience by emphasizing the role of personal and internal transformations needed to foster 
empowered agents of change in the face of global sustainability problems. We will explore the 
role of contemplative practices in promoting personal vulnerability, while fostering a sense of 
trust and belonging. The last part of the workshop will entail prototyping potentially emerging 
interactions between people beyond traditional roles of host-guest, worker-client, nationality, or 
North-South. 
 


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