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archaeological heritage interpretation
Author_Kelli Ann Costa
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Coach Tourism
coach tourism ethnography in Ireland
Collins Barracks
companies
cros
cultural identity studies
Dif Cult
economic development impact
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ethnographic research
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GAA
Gaelic
Gaelic Athletic Association
Guinness Storehouse
Heritage Landscape
hilary
Ireland's Heritage
irelands
Ireland’s Heritage
irish
Irish Tourism
ITIC
Limerick
Lms
National Library
Navan Fort
operator
passage
Passage Tomb
Pristine
tombs
tour
Tour Operators
tourism
Tourism Ireland
Tourism Policy Review Group
visitor experience analysis
West Cork
Word Of Mouth
working class narratives
Product details
- ISBN 9781598744064
- Weight: 362g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 15 May 2009
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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The Coach Fellas are known to almost all tourists who traverse the Irish countryside. Ostensibly bus drivers, they are also the tour guides who provide the crucial component in the branding of “people, place, and pace” upon which Irish heritage tourism depends. Kelli Costa’s ethnography of these highly trained and informed working class men highlights a previously ignored component of the tourism industry. She also demonstrates their importance in providing a visitor-specific vision of heritage that contrasts with the realities of contemporary economic development.
Kelli Ann (Costa) níc Maoileoin spent many years in the horse business before turning her attention to anthropology in the 1980s. She received her Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she studied archaeology, heritage, and tourism under John W. Cole, Oriol Pi-Sunyer, H. Martin Wobst, Dena Dincauze, and Robert Paynter. Kelli was a professor at Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire for ten years before taking a Fulbright Fellowship at the Dublin Institute of Technology in 2006. The Coach Fellas came about after her friend Lesley Daunt, an Irish coach driver-guide, suggested she study the industry in 2005. Now residing in Ireland, Kelli remains associated with the Dublin Institute of Technology and involved in the Irish tourism industry. She conducts accredited college tours of Ireland’s archaeological heritage sites, is busy with research, and lives in the Midlands surrounded by the people and places she loves.
