Books by Kelli Ann Costa

This book presents the 'brokered image,' a constructed identity influenced by tourism and the global economy, expressed through a variety of displays and performances in rural Tyrol. This image of old world simplicity complicates interactions between and among hosts and guests as evidenced in this small mountain village in Austria.

The Coach Fellas are known to almost all tourists who traverse the Irish countryside. This ethnography of critical but unrecognized producers of Irish heritage tourism demonstrates their importance in providing a visitor-specific vision of heritage that contrasts with the realities of contemporary economic development.