Faculty of Business and Law

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Tamara Young Lecturer in Tourism Management School of Economics, Politics and Tourism +61-2-492 15804 +61-2-492 16919 GP 3-31 tamara.young@newcastle.edu.au

Qualifications:
BBus, BSocSci (Hons), PhD

Teaching:
TOUR1000 Introduction to Sustainable Tourism Management

TOUR2001 Tourism, Culture and Heritage Management

TOUR3002 Festival and Event Planning

Research Interests:

The role of tourism media as an interface between traveller cultures and travelled cultures; social and cultural aspects travel and tourism, especially backpacker tourism and volunteer tourism; representation and interpretation of Aboriginal Australia in the context of tourism; Indigenous tourism; culturally sustainable tourism; community development and leisure, recreation and tourism planning.

Publications

Book Chapters

Young, T. (in press, forthcoming 2008) Welcome to Aboriginal Land: The Uluru – Kata Tjuta National Park, in W. Frost and C.M. Hall (eds), Tourism and the Origins and Development of the National Parks Concept. London: Routledge.

Young, T. (2008) Mediation of Volunteer Tourism Alternatives: Guidebook Representations of Travel Experiences in Aboriginal Australia, in K. Lyons and S. Wearing (eds), Journeys of Discovery in Volunteer Tourism: International Case Study Perspectives. Oxford: CABI, pp. 195-209.

Young, T. (2005) Between a Rock and a Hard Place: Backpackers at Uluru, Central Australia, in B. West (ed), Down The Road: Backpacking and Independent Travel. Perth: API Network, pp.33-53.

Refereed Journal Articles

Young, T. (forthcoming 2008) Framing Experiences of Aboriginal Australia: Guidebooks in Backpacker Travel, Tourism Analysis (Special Edition: Tourism and The Media).

Jenkins, J. M. & Young, T. (forthcoming 2008) Urban Development and the Leisure Dilemma: A Case Study of Leisure and Recreation in Urban Residential Estates in the Lower Hunter, New South Wales, Annals of Leisure Research.

Research Reports

Jenkins, J.M. and Young, T. (2007) Leisure and Recreation Perspectives in the Lower Hunter, NSW: A Case Study of Urban Residential Estates in Lake Macquarie and Cessnock. Centre of Full Employment and Equity, The University of Newcastle.

Conference Papers

Young, T. and Jenkins, J.M. (2008) Leisure and Recreation Planning in Urban Residential Estates: A case study of the Lower Hunter, NSW. Australia and New Zealand Association for Leisure Studies (ANZALS) Conference, Melbourne, January 2008.

Young, T. (2006) Travelling Companions: The Role of Guidebooks in Backpacker Travel. The International Tourism and Media Conference, Melbourne, December 2006.

Young, T. (2005) Constructing Cultures: Deconstructing Guidebook Representations of The Traveller and The Travelled. The University of Newcastle, November 2005.

Young, T. (2002) Imaging Aboriginality: Tourism Media Representations of Aboriginal Australia. Imaging Culture: The Inter-Cultural Studies Conference, Newcastle, June 2002.

Young, T. (2001) Mystical, Spiritual, Sacred Uluru: Narrations and Interpretations of a National Icon. Australian Studies Nation and Narration Conference, Brisbane, June 2001.

Young, T. (1999) Exposing the Exotic: Tourism, Imagery and Aboriginality. On Solid Ground: Knowledges, Narratives, Negotiations’ Conference, Melbourne, December 1999.