Kelley A McClinchey

Dr Kelley A McClinchey

Dr Kel­ley A McClinchey

Kel­ley A McClinchey has a PhD in human geo­graphy spe­cial­ising in tour­ism, place-mak­ing, and sustainability.

A lec­turer at Wil­frid Laur­i­er Uni­ver­sity, Canada, Dr McClinchey is inter­ested in how hos­pit­al­ity, tour­ism, and events con­trib­ute to sus­tain­able live­li­hoods and resi­li­ent communities.

Kel­ley val­ues the use of per­son­al stor­ies and nar­rat­ives in under­stand­ing tour­ism in diverse places and contexts.

She loves to hike wild trails, stroll city streets, and sit at cafés won­der­ing who else in the past has wit­nessed chan­ging her­it­age landscapes.

Oh, Canada: Reconciliation via Indigenous storytelling, dignity, and ‘dark tourism’

and January 8, 2024
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Can 'dark tourism' help Canada reconcile its past and present? Photo by Taylor Burke: Cedar Lake Ranch, Indigenous Tourism Association of Canada (ITAC) Manitoba.

Can tour­ism — ‘dark tour­ism’ — and the storytelling that it facil­it­ates help Canada and Cana­dians recon­cile their past and look for­ward to a bright­er, more united future? Kel­ley A McClinchey and Frédéric Dimanche explore these themes in this “Good Tour­ism” Insight. [You too can write a “GT” Insight.] A rev­el­a­tion of truth For more than 150 years, Canada’s Indigenous […]

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