Cycling, bread and circuses? When Le Tour came to Yorkshire and what it left behind

Spracklen, Karl

doi:10.1080/17430437.2019.1673735

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“…This may feel like a policy that promotes the local community and well-being more broadly, but the TICs are funded to promote tourism. Behind the guise of community engagement and social welfarism there is cost-benefit analysis: the TICs operate to construct a sense of Yorkshireness-green dales, sheep, drystone walls (Spracklen, 2016(Spracklen, , 2019-that is commodified and sold to consumers (Bauman, 2013;McGuigan, 2009), whether they are locals or visitors.…”

Section: Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…There are pockets of long-term deprivation in Skipton, and in the wider Craven District, and the local authorities are keen to find solutions and jobs for multigenerational unemployment as well as deprivation in the outlying rural communities (Great Place, 2018;LEP, 2016). At the same time, Skipton has become increasingly gentrified, and a focus for day visitors and tourists attracted by the beautiful countryside seen when Le Tour de France came through Yorkshire in 2014 (Spracklen, 2019;Whittle, Lomax, Heppenstall, & Brerton, 2017).…”

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confidence: 99%

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Putting Faith in Vinyl, Real Ale, and Live Music: a Case Study Of the Limits of Tourism Policy and a Critical Analysis Of New Leisure Spaces in a Northern English Town

Spracklen¹,

Robinson²

2020

Tourism Culture & Communication

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Skipton, on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, is an old mill town that has seen tourists flocking to it since the arrival of the railway in the 19th century. Like many other old mill towns in northern England, Skipton has lost those mills-as-factories and the workers in them—and has struggled to retain a sustainable local economy. At the same time, Skipton has become increasingly gentrified, and has become a focus for day visitors and tourists attracted by the beautiful countryside seen when Le Tour de France came through Yorkshire in 2014. In this article, we explore the area of Skipton, dubbed the Canal Quarter. We focus on the leisure spaces that have opened there as attempts to construct alternative, authentic experiences around the consumption of real ale, the performance of live music, and the curation of second-hand vinyl records. We have previously explored how these might be shown to be a space for Habermasian rationality. In this sequel, we use critical theory to show how the alternative, authentic space of vinyl, real ale, and live music has already been compromised by two conflicting hegemonic powers: the cooption of leisure into the economics of tourism and tourism policy, and the meaninglessness of cool capitalism and Bauman's consumer society.

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