Discovery Projects - Grant ID: DP1097238

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/Web/Grant/Grant/DP1097238

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

Touring the past: tourism and history in Australia 1850-2010. This project contributes to understanding our region and the world by investigating how Australia's past has attracted tourists historically. It analyses not only the ways Australians have popularly understood their own past, but how that past has been interpreted to the world. Given tourism's traditional focus has been nature rather than culture in Australia, it has often put pressures on a fragile environment. Cultural tourism is developing as a major industry in Australia, destined to be even more significant in the future. History tourism is of particular benefit to rural communities, often under stress from economic and environmental pressures, and contributes to healthy active leisure.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 14-01-2010

End Date: 31-12-2014

Funding Scheme: Discovery Projects

Funding Amount: $165,800.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Historical Studies | History: Australian |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Socio-cultural issues |

Other Keywords

Historical Studies | History: Australian | Socio-cultural issues | Understanding Australia'S Past

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