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The continuing fascination for the medieval -- Gazing at the Gothic: medievalism and tourism in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries -- Medieval kingship: hollow crown or tower of strength? -- The princess in the tower? Changing representations of medieval women -- Medieval knights and chivalry -- Medieval castles and walled cities -- Positioning medieval cathedrals in the modern era -- Robin Hood: reinterpreting the medieval outlaw -- The hammer of the gods? Contested and changing imaginaries of the Vikings -- Encounters with the 'other': crusaders and muslims in medieval narratives -- Japan and medievalism: the samurai, cinema and cultural appropriation -- Fictional media and heritage from the medieval perspective: trends, issues and setting a research agenda.

This book examines the nexus between exploring and tourism and argues that exploration travel - based heavily on explorer narratives and the promises of personal challenges and change - is a major trend in future tourism. In particular, it analyses how romanticised myths of explorers form a foundation for how modern day tourists view travel and themselves. Its scope ranges from the 'Golden Age' of imperial explorers in the 19th and early 20th centuries, through the growth of adventure and extreme tourism, to possible future trends including space travel. The volume should appeal to researchers

Understanding the impact of bushfires on tourism operations in Australian national parks and regional communities is of growing importance, with evidence of their increased frequency and severity linked, in part, to climate change. This is particularly critical for Australian alpine regions, given their greater emphasis on the summer season in the wake of lighter winter snowfalls. This article focuses on management issues and challenges of maintaining tourist operations within the Victorian Alps post-bushfire, including operator reactions to the bushfires and their subsequent implementation (or not) of crisis management and disaster recovery strategies. It is based on a qualitative study involving semistructured interviews with 13 tour operators based in the Mt. Buller and Alpine National Parks. Findings of this study suggest that the majority of operators will experience some impact on their business after the fires, albeit to different degrees, and point to a paucity of forward recovery planning. Operators expressed their concerns about prolonged negative media attention about the fires, but did not have strategies in place to deal with this issue proactively. There appears to be scope for assisting operators on the ground with disaster recovery, including the provision of more positive and timely media communication.

ENLIGHTENMENT HOSPITALITY. CANNIBALS, HAREMS AND ADOPTION, JUDITH STILL (2011) Oxford: Voltaire Foundation, 310 pp., ISBN: 978 0 7294 1010 6, p/bk, £60.00
SETTING THETABLE FOR JULIA CHILD: GOURMET DINING IN AMERICA, 1934–1961, DAVID STRAUSS (2011) Baltimore, MD: John
Hopkins University Press, 352 pp., ISBN: 9780801897733, h/bk, $45
ROYAL TASTE: FOOD, POWER AND SATUS AT THE EUROPEAN COURTS AFTER 1789, DANIËLLE DE VOOGHT (ED.) (2011) Farnham, Surrey, UK: Ashgate, 246 pp., e-book, ISBN: 978-0-7546-6837-4; 978-0-7546-9478-6, h/bk, £65.00