ABSTRACT
This chapter examines curated relationships demands new methodologies and approaches to understand how contemporary cultural tourism operates. It refers to Foucauldian approaches, among others, in relation to two World Heritage Sites in Australia to comment on the way in which new methodologies are emerging from the intersection of economic demands, governance and community. The chapter combines qualitative analysis and semi-structured interviews. The interviews were conducted with representatives of the Sydney Harbour Federation Trust, which is the body responsible to the New South Wales Government in Australia for managing Cockatoo Island. The examination of the Port Arthur and Cockatoo Island sites show that each site demonstrates changing circulations of power between different stakeholders in the tourist experience but that this circulation of power is productive: the competing discourses extend what is known and understood about the sites.
