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The Built Environment

Presenters on this panel investigate the heavily constructed and mediated “reality” of tourist sites and explore what can be learned from the material culture left behind at the end of a tourist site’s life cycle.

Presentations

“A Small World After All”: Walt Disney, U.S. Foreign Policy, and Tourism as Cultural Diplomacy

Presenters

Lori N. Brister

Buildings as Collections: Interpretation and Historic and Cultural Heritage Architecture Tourism

Presenters

Kristin Marie Barry

Memories in Ruin: the Remains of Jewish Identities and Tourism at Grossinger’s Catskill Resort Hotel

Presenters

Elizabeth Morgan Stark Pysarenko

Session chairs

Jennifer Erica Sweda