Coach Fellas

Heritage and Tourism in Ireland

Kelli Ann Costa

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English

Left Coast Press Inc
15 May 2009

Tourism industry

Series: Heritage, Tourism, and Community

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.

By: Kelli Ann Costa
Imprint: Left Coast Press Inc
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 20mm
Weight: 453g
ISBN: 9781598744064
ISBN 10: 1598744062
Series: Heritage, Tourism, and Community
Pages: 255
Publication Date: 15 May 2009
Audience: College/higher education , Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Preface Chapter 1: Tourism: A Consideration of the Literature Chapter 2: Heritage Tourism and Discourse in Ireland Chapter 3: Heritage and Archaeology in Ireland Chapter 4: Representing Ireland’s Heritage Chapter 5: Participants in Irish Tourism Chapter 6: Tourists in Ireland Chapter 8: Components of Irish Coach Tourism Chapter 9: Conclusion

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.