Heritage and the Olympics

Sean Gammon is based at the University of Central Lancashire. He is widely published in the area of sport tourism, focusing on customer motivation, nostalgia and heritage. In addition he continues to contribute to the field of leisure; recently co-editing a new text on, Contemporary Perspectives in Leisure. London: Routledge.Gregory Ramshaw is basedin the Department of Parks, Recreation and Tourism Management at Clemson University. His research primarily examines the social construction of heritage with a particular interest in sport-based heritage. He has been widely published in numerous international academic texts and journals. He is also the co-editor of Heritage Sport Tourism: Sporting Pasts - Tourist Futures, published by Routledge.Emma Waterton is basedin the Institute for Culture and Society at the University of Western Sydney. Her current research explores the interface between heritage, identity, memory and affect at a range of Australian heritage tourism sites. She is author of Politics, Policy and the Discourses of Heritage in Britain (2010, Palgrave Macmillan) and co-author of Heritage, Communities and Archaeology (with Laurajane Smith; 2009, Duckworth).