Slow travel and tourism : experiences and mobilities / edited by Simone Fullagar, Kevin Markwell and Erica Wilson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Fullagar, Simone.

Markwell, Kevin.

Wilson, Erica.

Series:

Aspects of tourism ; 54.

Aspects of tourism ; 54

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism--Psychological aspects.

Tourism.

Social movements.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (243 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Buffalo : Channel View Publications, c2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Bringing together scholars from the areas of tourism, leisure and cultural studies, eco-humanities and tourism management, this book examines the emerging phenomenon of slow tourism. The book explores the range of travel experiences that are part of growing consumer concerns with quality leisure time, environmental and cultural sustainability, as well as the embodied experience of place. Slow tourism encapsulates a range of lifestyle practices, mobilities and ethics that are connected to social movements such as slow food and cities, as well as specialist sectors such as ecotourism and voluntourism. The slow experience of temporality can evoke and incite different ways of being and moving, as well as different logics of desire that value travel experiences as forms of knowledge. Slow travel practices reflect a range of ethical-political positions that have yet to be critically explored in the academic literature despite the growth of industry discourse.

Contents:

pt. 1. Positioning slow tourism

pt. 2. Slow food and sustainable tourism

pt. 3. Slow mobilities

pt. 4. Slow tourism places.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 07. Jul 2020)

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9786613770370

9781845412838

1845412834

9781280998768

1280998768

9781845412821

1845412826

OCLC:

806204969