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1981
Volume 9, Issue 2
  • ISSN: 2042-7913
  • E-ISSN: 2042-7921

Abstract

The concept of the tourism imaginary can be employed to illuminate representational histories of the inn and the innkeeper in the nineteenth-century Scottish Highlands. In evaluations of Scottish hospitality, the innkeeper’s relationship to modern tourism culture was appraised in tandem with the wider role of the inn and its local social, cultural and commercial functions. Some commentators critiqued Highland tourism practices as inhospitable, often through caricatures of the miserly innkeeper. Other writers treated Highland inns as indices of local economic prosperity, and the innkeeper as either an upholder of local morality or a victim of economic structures and even climatic conditions. As the tourism sector expanded, a variety of texts positioned inns and innkeepers at the heart of debates over the relationship between Highland culture and practices of commercial hospitality.

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2019-06-01
2025-02-11
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  • Article Type: Article
Keyword(s): cultural tourism; Highlands; hospitality; inns; Scotland; tourism imaginary
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