Call for Tourism Stories

The Apache Heritage Reunion Event at Fort Apache and Theodore Roosevelt School N
Published: 
Jul 31, 2014
The IPinCH Cultural Tourism Working Group (CTWG) is looking for your examples and experiences of tourism for a new resource handbook for use by communities and other stakeholders involved in or teaching about tourism. 

In addition to information about legal protections, planning, protocols and best practices, the handbook will feature real life “tourism stories” to illustrate the issues surrounding IP and cultural heritage as they relate to tourism. 
 
Tourism can be any host-guest interaction. It can range from highly organized package tours (such as bus tours, hiking tours), to the presence of tourism infrastructure (hotels, gas stations, self guided trails, etc.), to highly mediated experiences (events, gatherings, educational programming, museum display). Tourism can include guests from far away, who do not share the host’s culture, or relatives visiting from the next town over.

We are particularly interested in personal experiences or stories that showcase a particular dimension of tourism (i.e. home visits, guided tours, field schools, etc.) or illustrate an issue that arises for communities engaged in cultural tourism (cultural appropriation, how to teach guests local protocol, what to do when a guest is inappropriate, how to navigate local development laws, etc.).
 
While we are focusing primarily on stories from the IPinCH collective, we are open to outside contributions as well. At this time, your stories will only be shared with a small group of individuals in the CTWG as we develop our reader on IP-related issues, and we will confirm with you before your stories are circulated more widely or published in the reader.
 
Please follow this link to either share your story or to indicate your interest in contributing (a member of the CTWG will be in touch to follow up).  
 
Photo: The Apache Heritage Reunion Event at Fort Apache and Theodore Roosevelt School National Historic Landmark draws many visitors to the site (J. Welch, courtesy White Mountain Apache Heritage Program).