Mining Heritage and Tourism A Global Synthesis

Section I – Introduction 1. What Happens When Mining Leaves? Michael Conlin and Lee Jolliffe  Section II - Interpreting Mining Heritage 2. The Making of Two Mining Museums: Bowes and Beamish, North East England Stuart Howard and Kevin Hannam 3. Chinese Mining Heritage and Tourism in the Goldfields of the Pacific Rim Keir Reeves, Fiona Wheeler, Jennifer Laing and Warwick Frost 4. Pilgrimage in Heritage Tourism: Finding Meaning and Identity in the Industrial Past Mary Beth Gouthro and Catherine Palmer 5. Branding Beaconsfield: The Great Escape Puts Small Tasmanian Town on the Tourist Map Leanne White  Section III - Transforming Mines into Heritage Attractions  6. Mining the Museum: A Rich Vein for Dissent Jane Legget 7. Transforming Working Mines into Tourist Attractions: Conceptual and Practical Considerations Elspeth Frew 8. Developing a Heritage Tourism Attraction in a Working Salt Mine: The Kansas Underground Salt Museum Deborah Che 9. Interpreting the Environmental Impacts of the Gold Rushes at the Castlemaine Diggings National Heritage Park Warwick Frost 10. Sustaining the Benefits of Heritage Mining for Site, City and Region: Exploring the Success of Sovereign Hill Outdoor Museum Mary Hollick  Section IV - Traditional Mining Attraction Destinations  11. Flogging a Dead Horse or Creating Cultural Capacity? The Development and Impact of Mines as Alternative Tourist Destinations: A Case Study of South Wales, UK Kathryn Flynn and Andrew L Jones 12. The Benefits and Challenges of Implementing Tourism in Mining Communities Attractions Kim Lemky and Lee Jolliffe 13. Geotourism Sites Development in Slovakia Geza M Timcak, Paval Rybar and Jana Jablonska 14. Mining Tourism in the Spanish Province of Huelva: The Case of the Mining Park of Riotinto Alfonso Vargas Sanchez, Nuria Porras-Bueno and Mª Ángeles Plaza-Mejía  Section V - Globalization and the Future of Mining Attraction Destinations 15. Planning For the Future: Tourism Options for an Open Pit Mine, Vietnam Nguyen Duc Hoa Cuong, Nancy Cheswick and Lee Jolliffe 16. Mining Tourism in Ouro Preto (Brazil): Opportunities and Challenges Angela Flecha, Marcos Knupp, Gui Lohmann and Antonio Liccardo 17. Mining Heritage, Local Development and Identity: The Case of Sardinia Giovanni Sistu Carlo Perelli and Paola Pinna 18. Developing Geological Tourism in the Bay of Fundy Region Keith Dewar and Randall F Miller 19. From Mining Boom Towns to Tourist Haunts: Ghost towns and Mining Heritage Bruce Prideaux, James Cook and Dallen Timothy  Section VI - Lessons Learned  20. Lessons in Transforming Mines into Tourism Attractions Lee Jolliffe and Michael Conlin

Biography

Michael V. Conlin is a Professor in the Okanagan School of Business in Kelowna, BC, Canada. He also teaches for the University of Guelph and Royal Roads University.  His academic interests include island tourism and his current work includes an investigation of the use of industrial infrastructure for touristic purposes in British Columbia and elsewhere.

Lee Jolliffe is an Associate Professor of Hospitality and Tourism at the University of New Brunswick, Saint John. Her academic work explores the use of culture for tourism in a variety of contexts that include rural and island tourism situations.

"Mining heritage sites as tourist attractions, like the mining that preceded them, are fortuitously successful - but that success is not guaranteed. Some pay out; others may not. This perspective of uniqueness and precariousness (particularly mining as a tourist attraction) pervades the viewpoint of the many contributions to Conlin and Jolliffe's volume. Their edited work address two topics that they construe as not yet adequately examined by the tourism academy: what happens to replace an economic mainstay when mining leaves a community and how do you preserve mining heritage in an increasingly competitive tourism environment?" - Susan R. Martin, IA: The Journal of the Society for Industrial Archaeology, August 2009