TRC SEMINAR curtin.edu.au Make tomorrow better. © Copyright Curtin University CRICOS Provider Code 00301J Tuesday, 10 March, 1:30 – 2:30 pm School of Marketing Boardroom Room 2024 Level 2 Building 408 Coastal resorts may experience a need to shift their tourism dependence from marine to heritage resources. This is classically so in Malta, which has so far made limited progress in effecting such a transition despite its multi-millennial history. However, current initiatives to expand its World War 1 and 2 heritage resources may accelerate this process. The seminar asks what relevance Malta's experience may have for Australian coastal tourism; but also what interest Malta's hitherto underdeveloped wartime heritage narratives of 'Nurse of the Mediterranean' (WW1) and 'Siege of Malta' (WW2) may have for Australians. John Tunbridge is Emeritus Professor of Geography at Carleton University in Canada. Since his formal retirement, he has been Visiting Professor at Brighton University, UK, and Adjunct at Curtin. He has written extensively on heritage tourism and related issues and is perhaps best known for Dissonant Heritage (1996) and The Tourist-Historic City (2000), both co- authored with the late Gregory Ashworth. His current work centres upon the heritage of former naval dockyards, notably Malta, with which he is more generally familiar. Please RSVP to [email protected] 'Blue’ to ‘Grey’? Australian Tourism Insights from Malta John Tunbridge| Carleton University, Canada