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Tuesday, 10 March, 1:30 – 2:30 pmSchool of Marketing Boardroom Room 2024 Level 2 Building 408

Coastal resorts may experience a need toshift their tourism dependence frommarine to heritage resources. This isclassically so in Malta, which has so farmade limited progress in effecting such atransition despite its multi-millennialhistory. However, current initiatives toexpand its World War 1 and 2 heritageresources may accelerate this process. Theseminar asks what relevance Malta'sexperience may have for Australian coastaltourism; but also what interest Malta'shitherto underdeveloped wartime heritagenarratives of 'Nurse of the Mediterranean'(WW1) and 'Siege of Malta' (WW2) mayhave for Australians.

John Tunbridge is Emeritus Professorof Geography at Carleton University inCanada. Since his formal retirement,he has been Visiting Professor atBrighton University, UK, and Adjunctat Curtin. He has written extensivelyon heritage tourism and related issuesand is perhaps best known forDissonant Heritage (1996) and TheTourist-Historic City (2000), both co-authored with the late GregoryAshworth. His current work centresupon the heritage of former navaldockyards, notably Malta, with whichhe is more generally familiar.

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'Blue’ to ‘Grey’? Australian Tourism Insights from MaltaJohn Tunbridge| Carleton University, Canada