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Art tourism: A new field for tourist studies
Citation
Franklin, A, Art tourism: A new field for tourist studies, Tourist Studies, 18, (4) pp. 399 -416. ISSN 1468-7976 (2018) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2018 The Author
DOI: doi:10.1177/1468797618815025
Abstract
This article argues the case for art tourism as a new field of tourist studies. At present, art tourism
is currently obscured under cultural tourism’s voluminous bounds – which are as inappropriate
as they are unwieldy and overloaded. More specifically, it cannot adequately contain art tourism’s
distinctive origins, forms of experience and articulation between art worlds, cities and regions
and tourism industries. In part, a more dedicated research field is also needed to keep track of
its rapid growth and development as a primary driver of regional and urban regeneration and for
the much expanded exhibitionary complex it encompasses. As a place-changing vehicle for city
life, art tourism also needs separate forms of data collection to assist in its effective planning and
design. Museums that have historically catered for local art publics now need to relate increasingly
to growing touring art publics. The article sets out the historical and contemporary significance of
art tourism in order to identify the breadth of a new tourism agenda, as well as its connections to
other disciplines including art, architecture, social anthropology, cultural economy, urban studies,
museology, aesthetics and the sociology and geography of art.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Human Society |
Research Group: | Sociology |
Research Field: | Social theory |
Objective Division: | Commercial Services and Tourism |
Objective Group: | Tourism services |
Objective Field: | Socio-cultural issues in tourism |
UTAS Author: | Franklin, A (Professor Adrian Franklin) |
ID Code: | 129932 |
Year Published: | 2018 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 16 |
Deposited By: | Office of the School of Social Sciences |
Deposited On: | 2018-12-21 |
Last Modified: | 2019-05-03 |
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