Transformational tourism : host perspectives / edited by Yvette Reisinger (Gulf University for Science and Technology, Kuwait).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reisinger, Yvette, editor.

C.A.B. International, issuing body.

C.A.B. International.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable tourism.

Tourism--Social aspects.

Community development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xv, 219 pages) : color illustrations, charts

Place of Publication:

Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2015.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Transformational tourism is about a change in thinking and behaviour through travel and tourism. In contrast to the first volume which focuses on tourist perspectives, this second volume focuses on host community perspectives of transformational tourism. This volume shows that through the tourist-host relationships, interacting with other people and learning about other places, host communities can critically reflect on life, and shift the course of their knowledge and the meaning perspective. By experiencing tourism and tourists, host communities can generate new thoughts and ideas, create new meanings, change their social, cultural, political and environmental beliefs and, most importantly, move towards new values of openness, tolerance, sharing, empathy, compassion, justice and peace, unity and oneness, and service to others. This volume contains 14 chapters. Most of the chapters concentrate on a particular type of host experience and report on research studies conducted in various parts of the world. The volume is aimed at tourism students and academics in business and non-business schools. Studies presented in this volume are also likely to appeal to tourism businesses because they show what tourism products should be developed in order for the host communities to grow and the industry to be successful. In addition, this volume is aimed at students, academics and professionals from other disciplines that deal with human development and behavioural changes.

Contents:

Reflections on Life Purpose / Yvette Reisinger

Personal Transformation and Travel and Tourism / Yvette Reisinger

Destination under Discipline : Foucault and the Transformation of Place Makers / Keith Hollinshead, Milka Ivanova and Kellee Caton

The Normalization of Places and Spaces : Tourism and Transformation - A Glossary on the Eye-of-Authority / Keith Hollinshead, Kellee Caton and Milka Ivanova

Where is the Host? An Analytic Autoethnographic Inquiry in Transformational Tourism / Sagar Singh

The Political and Social Transformation of Roma and Jewish Communities through Tourism in Budapest / Melanie Smith and Anita Zatori

Tourism, Transformation and Urban Ethnic Communities : The Case of Matonge, Brussels/ Anya Diekmann and Isabelle Cloquet

The Travelling Favela : Cosmopolitanisms from Above and from Below / Bianca Freire-Medeiros and Gabriel Cohen

Transforming Nature's Value - Cultural Change Comes from Below : Rural Communities, the "Othered" and Host Capacity Building / Stephen Schweinsberg, Stephen Wearing and Michael Wearing

Transformation of Local Lives through Volunteer Tourism : Peruvian and Thai Case Studies / Elisa Burrai and Jose Ignacio de las Cuevas

The Impact of Extreme Sports on Host Communities' Psychological Growth and Development / Eric Brymer and Susan Houge Mackenzie

Transformation and the WWOOF Exchange : The Host Experience / Adrian Deville

Ethnic Conflict : Is Heritage Tourism Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem? / Gregory Ashworth

Developing a Tourism Poverty Reduction Strategy / Omar Moufakkir and Ian Kelly

Conclusion / Yvette Reisinger.

Notes:

Title from PDF title page (viewed October 14, 2015).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Transformational tourism.

ISBN:

1-78064-392-6

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.