This article explores the social and cultural production of indigeneity in a wildlife sanctuary on the Australian Gold Coast. We note that the human and animal characters that form the displays of the sanctuary work towards the assemblage of a largely consistent underlying theme. The latter...

This special issue on festival tourism consists of 5 papers in addition to an introduction. Topics covered include: cross-cultural research issues in developing international tourism markets for cultural events; tourist characteristics and their interest in attending festivals and events;...

Historic sites in the city of Dubai have recently been used for events during the city's annual winter Dubai Shopping Festival (DSF). This article investigates the possibility of productive and sustainable use of historic sites for events during the DSF, while preserving the heritage, integrity,...

The city of Potchefstroom in South Africa hosts the annual Aardklop National Arts Festival. The first festival in 1998 attracted 25 000 visitors, increasing to 60 000 in its second year and to over 100 000 by 2001. This festival is one of 79 festivals held in South Africa annually. As visitors can...

This book explores the links between tourism and festivals and the various ways in which each mobilizes the other to make social realities meaningful. Drawing upon a series of international cases, festivals are examined as ways of responding to various forms of crisis (social, political and...

Drawing from extended fieldwork in La Réunion, in the Indian Ocean, this book (with 8 chapters) suggests an innovative re-reading of different concepts of magic that emerge in the global cultural economics of tourism. Following the making and unmaking of the tropical island tourism destination of...

This chapter explores different sets of cultural performance observed during the preparations and celebrations of the abolition of slavery festivities in a fishing village in the French island of La Reunion. This festival 'appears' in the mid-1990s, in a context characterized by rapid structural...

This chapter analyses the processes of "touristification" of festivals in many urban settings, particularly in the London borough of Greenwich in the UK. Here festivals have been devised relatively recently to animate local communities and address issues of 'belonging' within the contexts of...

This chapter analyses the problem of 'placelessness' by focusing in particular on city festivals in the UK. It is suggested that the problem of 'placelessness' is a result of the divorce between festival and 'local community'. Through tourism marketing and the adaptation of festivals according to...

This chapter follows the transformation of gay and lesbian festivals, which originated from protest movements in the late 1960s and have become largely transnational party scenes. The chapter approaches the complex and changing political and symbolic underpinnings of the festivals by focusing in...