Transformational tourism : host perspectives /

• Other Authors: Reisinger, Yvette, (Editor)
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2015.
• Subjects: Sustainable tourism.; Tourism > Social aspects.; Community development.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Tourism and Travel.; Attitudes.; Behavioural changes.; Host guest relations.; Local population.; Personal development.; Social change.; Social interaction.; Social values.; Sociology of tourism.; Tourism.; Travel.
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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-ho...

Table of 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.