Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0455250

Funded Activity Summary

Backpacker cultures, residential communities, and the construction of tourist spaces and landscapes: A regional study of changing tourism dynamics in Sydney. This interdisciplinary project draws on Cultural Studies, Cultural Geography, and Tourism to respond to industry calls for more comprehensive, long-term research on tourism issues, particularly backpacker tourism in the Sydney metropolitan region. The project will explore tourism as a complex cultural practice through an innovative approach investigating the links between backpacker tourism and the transformation of places and communities. The focus is on backpackers, with a special emphasis on the problems Local Government faces in relation to backpackers within residential communities. The project will generate new approaches to these issues, informing a range of policies for local councils.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 08-03-2005

End Date: 30-06-2008

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $229,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Cultural Studies | Social And Cultural Geography | Consumption And Everyday Life | Postcolonial And Global Cultural Studies |

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Socio-cultural issues | Consumption patterns, population issues and the environment | Tourism infrastructure development

Other Keywords

Consumption And Everyday Life | Consumption patterns, population issues and the environment | Cultural Studies | Postcolonial And Global Cultural Studies | Social And Cultural Geography | Socio-cultural issues | Tourism infrastructure development

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