Handbook on tourism and rural community development / edited by Heather Mair.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mair, Heather, Editor.

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

Research handbooks in tourism

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rural tourism.

Rural development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (460 pages).

Place of Publication:

Cheltenham, UK ; Northampton, MA, USA : Edward Elgar Publishing, [2023]

Contents:

1. Introduction: understanding rural community development and tourism in challenging times / Heather Mair

Part I. Conceptual foundations

2. Understanding rural communities / Michael Woods

3. Understanding rural tourism / Donald G. Reid

4. Understanding rural development / Kelly Vodden, Mery Angeles Perez and Brady Reid

Part II. Epistemological foundations, paradigms, and worldviews

5. Post-positivism and mixed methods research in rural tourism / Girish Prayag

6. Interpretive approaches to research with rural communities: privileging emotion in tourism encounters / Meghan Muldoon

7. Decolonial pedagogies as a pathway to transformational learning for rural community and tourism development / Christine N. Buzinde

8. Interpreting the social impacts of tourism-led rural regeneration: the case of the Alps to Ocean (A2O) Cycle Trail / Michael Mackay, Nick Taylor, Harvey C. Perkins and Tracy Nelson

9. Building rapport à soi: thinking critically about rural community tourism development / Keith Hollinshead and Heather Mair

10. Refusing tourism, Tebrakunna country / Emma Lee and Bryan S.R. Grimwood

Part III. Key conceptualizations

11. Gender and rural tourism / Katherine Dashper

12. Food, tourism, and rural community development: close encounters of the nourishing kind? / Jennifer Sumner

13. Heritage, heritage interpretation and rural tourism / Bernard Lane

14. Climate change / Mark C.J. Stoddart and Yixi Yang

15. Tourism: vulnerability and resiliency in rural regions / David W. Marcouiller

16. Degrowing rural tourism development: thinking globally to save the local / Alexander Safonov and C. Michael Hall

17. Understanding a multifunctional rural tourism landscape: a case study of the Upper Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia / Sinead Francis-Coan and Annæ Buchmann

18. Creatively regenerating St. Jacobs Village / Tawsif Dowla and Karla A. Boluk

Part IV. Processes and practices

19. Ethical considerations for rural community tourism / Tazim Jamal and Blanca Camargo

20. Sustainable tourism development in rural areas: an alternative paradigm using the appreciative inquiry approach / Roslizawati Che Aziz

21. Tourism governance for rural community well-being: challenges and creative opportunities / Gianna Moscardo

22. "Salvaging" presence: tourism as regional development strategies for rural communities / Dominic Lapointe

23. Rural communities, tourism, and the roles of academics / Bernard Lane

Part V. Emerging matters and new directions

24. Community events, rural-urban interdependencies, and rural community development / Kyle Rich

25. Centering animals within rural tourism / Carol Kline

26. Shifting from benefiting to serving community: a case of regenerative tourism and building cultural capital through the Children's University Tasmania / Can-Seng Ooi and Becky Shelley

27. Exploring the regenerative practices of Canadian women tourism social entrepreneurs: a feminist ethic of care / Karla A. Boluk, Gaurav Panse, and Sung Eun Jeon

28. Transforming a dogsledding community: the 'Gafsele Open' and lifestyle migrants in sparsely populated northern Sweden / Marco Eimermann, Doris A. Carson and Linda Lundmark

29. Traveling workers as rural tourists: extending understandings from Tibetan travelers / Xiaotao Yang

30. Conclusion: inspiring a radical politics of community-controlled rural tourism / Heather Mair

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Other Format:

Print version: Handbook on tourism and rural community development.

ISBN:

9781800370067

1800370067

Publisher Number:

99993825213

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.