Diaspora,authenticity and the imagined past |
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| Institution: | 1. School of Business and Tourism, Southern Cross University, Lismore, NSW, Australia;2. Division of Tourism and Hospitality Management, University of Papua New Guinea, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea;3. Papua New Guinea Tourism Promotion Authority, Port Moresby, Papua New Guinea;1. National Technical University of Athens, Greece;2. Greek Research Institute for Tourism, Greece & National Technical University of Athens, Greece;3. National Technical University of Athens, Greece & Systemic Risk Centre, London School of Economics, United Kingdom;1. Département d''anthropologie, Université Laval, Pavillon Charles-De Koninck, 1030 ave des Sciences-Humaines, Québec (QC) G1V-0A6, Canada;2. Department of Geography, Burnside Hall Building, Room 705, 805 Sherbrooke Street West, Montreal, Quebec H3A 0B9, Canada |
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| Abstract: | Ancestral tourism in Scotland, a sector of the heritage tourism market sensitive to consumer personalisation, has particular propensities towards process-driven co-created experiences. These experiences occur within existing categories of object-based and existential notions of authenticity alongside an emergent category of the ‘authentically imagined past’. The latter of these modes reveals a complex interplay between professionally endorsed validation of the empirical veracity of objects, documents and places and deeply held, authentically imagined, narratives of ‘home’. These narratives, built up in the Diaspora over centuries, drive new processes towards authenticity in tourism. We conducted 31 interviews across 27 sites throughout Scotland with curators, archivists, and volunteers to explore these notions of authenticity within the ancestral tourism context. |
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| Keywords: | Diaspora Heritage Co-creation Authenticity Ancestry Scotland |
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