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Coach Fellas

Heritage and Tourism in Ireland
By Kelli Ann Costa
Series: Heritage, Tourism, and Community
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Coach Fellas explores the vital role of Irish coach drivers, who double as expert tour guides, in shaping the experience of visitors to the Irish countryside. Kelli Ann Costa provides an ethnographic study of these skilled working-class men, revealing how they craft a visitor-specific vision of Irish heritage that supports tourism branding while differing from actual economic developments.
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The Coach Fellas are known to almost all tourists who traverse the Irish countryside. This ethnography of critical but unrecognized producers of Irish heritage tourism demonstrates their importance in providing a visitor-specific vision of heritage that contrasts with the realities of contemporary economic development.

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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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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9781598744071

Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 15 May 2009

Country: United States

Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 362g

Pages: 255

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Education & Reference Kelli Ann Costa Non-Fiction Series: Heritage, Tourism, and Community

About the Author

Kelli Ann (Costa) níc Maoileoin spent many years in the horse business before turning her attention to anthropology in the 1980s. She received her Ph.D. in 1998 from the University of Massachusetts at Amherst, where she studied archaeology, heritage, and tourism under John W. Cole, Oriol Pi-Sunyer, H. Martin Wobst, Dena Dincauze, and Robert Paynter. Kelli was a professor at Franklin Pierce College in New Hampshire for ten years before taking a Fulbright Fellowship at the Dublin Institute of Technology in 2006. The Coach Fellas came about after her friend Lesley Daunt, an Irish coach driver-guide, suggested she study the industry in 2005. Now residing in Ireland, Kelli remains associated with the Dublin Institute of Technology and involved in the Irish tourism industry. She conducts accredited college tours of Ireland’s archaeological heritage sites, is busy with research, and lives in the Midlands surrounded by the people and places she loves.

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