Lyn Leader-Elliott
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<p>Lyn Leader-Elliot’s specialist expertise is in applying theory from a wide range of disciplines and applying them to sustainable tourism practice. She teaches mostly in second and third year undergraduate topics at Flinders University in which students learn to identify the elements of sense of place that set destinations apart, and to work with these to achieve best practice sustainable tourism outcomes.<br> Lyn’s research interests centre on the links between culture, heritage and tourism. This includes the management and interpretation of cultural heritage in ways that respect heritage values, cultural integrity and community ownership. <br> She is leading the Cultural Landscapes and Cultural Heritage team of the <a href="http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/humanities/exchange/research_centre.html%20" target="_blank">Humanities Research Centre for Cultural Heritage and Cultural Exchange</a> <br> From 1990-2000 Lyn ran her own company, Leader-Elliott and Associates Pty Ltd, specializing in sustainable cultural and heritage tourism policy and applied projects. She was a member of the Australian Heritage Commission’s Steering Committee for Successful Tourism in Heritage Places (2001) and developed the Commonwealth-commissioned best practice manual Tourism With Integrity (1999). In 1997-1999 she worked on several national projects focusing on improving links between cultural organizations and the tourism industry, both in the large cities and in regional communities.</p> <p>For more information on Lyn Leader-Elliott’s research projects, consultancy experience, awards and publications visit her <a href="http://ehlt.flinders.edu.au/culturaltourism/staff/leader-elliott.php" target="_blank">Flinders University Staff </a>webpage.<br> <br>
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Cultural landscapes of a tourism destination: South Australia's Barossa Valley. [abstract].
(2005)Alternative ways in which the cultural landscape of South Australia’s Barossa Valley is represented are examined briefly to demonstrate the difference in cultural landscape representations in recent tourism marketing print ... -
Community Building in Regional Australia: the Creative Volunteering Training Program.
(Queensland Department of Main Roads, 2005-12)1. Flinders University, Adelaide, South Australia, Australia 2. Regional Arts Australia, Port Adelaide, South Australia, Australia Many of the community organisations that sustain cultural life in regional Australia are ... -
"Holiday Business: Tourism in Australia since 1870" by Jim Davidson and Peter Spearritt [review]
(Historical Society of South Australia, 2001)Tourism, as "Holiday Business" claims ‘is one of Australia’s biggest, most important and most interesting industries’. Davidson and Spearritt aim to ‘draw attention to the broad trends and meanings in tourism’ using a ... -
Changing Heritage, Changing Values, Memories of Two World Wars in the Barossa Valley
(School of Architecture, Landscape Architecture & Urban Design, University of Adelaide, 2002)The concept of cultural heritage has changed significantly since the 1970s, when the first formal systems for registering and protecting heritage places were set up at national and state level in Australia. It has expanded ... -
Heritage, Tourism and Integrity – Making it Work
(AIMA, 2001)This paper examines some of the issues that arise when heritage and tourism intersect, and briefly discusses two recent Australian projects which take different approaches but which both offer guidelines for achieving the ... -
Indigenous Cultural Tourism as part of the Birdsville/Strezlecki experience.
(AIATSIS, 2002)This paper examines some issues relating to inclusion of Australian Indigenous cultural heritage in a recent heritage tourism study carried out along the Birdsville and Strzelecki Tracks in South Australia and Queensland. ... -
Community heritage interpretation games: A case study from Angaston, South Australia
(Routledge, 2003-05)The residents of Angaston in South Australia, have worked on interpreting their town’s history since the early 1990s. Heritage walks brochures and interpretive plaques attracted, and continue to attract, steady interest ...
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