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

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Reisinger, Yvette, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Sustainable tourism.

Tourism--Social aspects.

Tourism.

Community development.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (235 p.)

Place of Publication:

Oxfordshire, England ; Boston, Massachusetts : CABI, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Transformational Tourism deals with the important issue of how travel and tourism can change human behaviour and have a positive impact on the world. The book focuses on human development in a world dominated by post-9/11 security and political challenges, economic and financial collapses, as well as environmental threats; it identifies various types of tourism that can transform human beings, such as educational, volunteer, survival, community-based, eco, farm, extreme, religious, spiritual, wellness, and mission tourism.

Contents:

Contents; Contributors; Preface; Content Previews; PART I: INITIAL REFLECTIONS; 1 Reflections on Life Purpose; 2 Personal Transformation and Travel and Tourism; PART II: FOUCAULT AND TRANSFORMATION; 3 Destination under Discipline: Foucault and the Transformation of Place Makers; 4 The Normalization of Places and Spaces: Tourism and Transformation - A Glossary on the Eye-of-Authority; PART III: WHERE IS THE HOST?; 5 Where is the Host? An Analytic Autoethnographic Inquiry in Transformational Tourism; PART IV: TRANSFORMATION OF DIFFERENT LOCAL COMMUNITIES

6 The Political and Social Transformation of Roma and Jewish Communities through Tourism in Budapest7 Tourism, Transformation and Urban Ethnic Communities: The Case of Matonge, Brussels; 8 The Travelling Favela: Cosmopolitanisms from Above and from Below; 9 Transforming Nature's Value - Cultural Change Comes from Below: Rural Communities, the 'Othered' and Host Capacity Building; PART V: TRANSFORMATION THROUGH DIFFERENT TYPES OF TOURISM; 10 Transformation of Local Lives through Volunteer Tourism: Peruvian and Thai Case Studies

11 The Impact of Extreme Sports on Host Communities' Psychological Growth and Development12 Transformation and the WWOOF Exchange: The Host Experience; PART VI: PROBLEMS AND SOLUTIONS; 13 Ethnic Conflict: Is Heritage Tourism Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?; 14 Developing a Tourism Poverty Reduction Strategy; Conclusion; Appendix: Glossary of Foucauldian Terms Used in Chapter 4 and in the Companion Chapter 3; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781789244625

1789244625

9781780643939

1780643934