Tourist-Created Attractions: The Emergence of a Unique Form of Tourist Attraction in Southern New Zealand

While there is considerable diversity in the way that tourist attractions are categorized and described, little or no attention has been paid to attractions that tourists physically create themselves. This paper examines three roadside examples of tourist-created attractions in southern New Zealand: a shoe fence, a bra fence and rock art. The possible motives of tourists in creating these attractions are explored. It is proposed that such attractions support the concept of creative tourism, providing tourists with a unique experience and a greater degree of agency or control within a tourism system that is largely defined in terms of capitalist modes of production and consumption.