Dr Craig Wight's Outputs (4)

Dark tourism: Sectoral Engagement and Ontological Repositioning (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Podoshen, J., Wight, C., & Lennon, J. (2024, November). Dark tourism: Sectoral Engagement and Ontological Repositioning. Presented at The Annual Society for Marketing Advances Conference: The Age of AI, Tampa, Florida, US

We invited stakeholders involved in dark tourism to comment on, and respond to academic constructs of dark tourism, which resides within the body of literature on this topic. Specifically, we undertook a genre analysis of dark tourism literature, and... Read More about Dark tourism: Sectoral Engagement and Ontological Repositioning.

Holocaust Heritage Digilantism: Community Reactions to Holocaust Selfies on Instagram (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wight, C. (2024, June). Holocaust Heritage Digilantism: Community Reactions to Holocaust Selfies on Instagram. Presented at Ninth International Conference on Tourism & Leisure Studies, Liverpool, UK

Discursive, netographic and visual methods have been applied in the past to critique self-images, providing insight into the behaviours of tourists. However, such studies have ignored reactions to self-image posts on social media, and particularly t... Read More about Holocaust Heritage Digilantism: Community Reactions to Holocaust Selfies on Instagram.

Theorizing ‘cultural authenticity’ in Australian youth tourism: English language schools, the Anglophone West, and holding a koala (2024)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Stanley, P., & Wight, C. (2024, May). Theorizing ‘cultural authenticity’ in Australian youth tourism: English language schools, the Anglophone West, and holding a koala. Presented at International Congress of Qualitative Inquiry, University of Illinois, Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, USA

This study considers cultural adaptation through tourism, focusing on language-travelers: hybrid education-tourism consumers whose voices remain relatively silent in tourism studies. Qualitative, semi-structured interviews were undertaken with studen... Read More about Theorizing ‘cultural authenticity’ in Australian youth tourism: English language schools, the Anglophone West, and holding a koala.

The problem with shaming people for Auschwitz selfies (2024)
Digital Artefact
Wight, C., & Stanley, P. (2024). The problem with shaming people for Auschwitz selfies. [Online newspaper]

Selfies have become the modern day equivalent of postcards, a way to share our travel experiences with family and friends on social media. It’s one thing to strike a goofy pose and snap a photo for Instagram on a beach or town square, but what if you... Read More about The problem with shaming people for Auschwitz selfies.