Coach Fellas: Heritage and Tourism in Ireland

Coach Fellas: Heritage and Tourism in Ireland
ISBN-10
1315432234
ISBN-13
9781315432236
Category
Social Science
Pages
255
Language
English
Published
2017-03-02
Publisher
Routledge
Author
Kelli Ann Costa

Description

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.

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