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ABSTRACT
Journeys by car in long-ago childhoods may resonate more powerfully as time transforms them from vivid memories into a personal heritage of tourism automobility. Such experiences can also be frequently mediated by exposure to and engagement with toys, books and television shows depicting multiple travel and tourism mobilities. Advertising images in print media as well as automotive brochures and monographs offer the promise of glamorous other lives filled with the latest cars in distant international settings of privilege and elegance. This discussion utilises autoethnography to map an inspirational father–son relationship, interrogate media impacts that have influenced and shaped a lifelong automotive obsession, and explore locations that became targeted (tourist) destinations in a pre-teen, pre-international travel imagination. Needless to say, this personal heritage of automobility and travel still has a ticket to ride.
Notes on contributor
Gary Best is an Honorary Associate of La Trobe Business School, La Trobe University, Melbourne, Australia, and an independent consultant and author whose research and writing focuses on cultural tourism, gastronomy and festival and event management. His research interests are diverse, but tend to focus on tourism and the media; automotive history, heritage and culture; travel writing; distinctive cultural interactions in touristic contexts, and the means by which all of the above operate in popular culture.