Transformational tourism : tourist perspectives /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2013.
• Subjects: Tourism > Psychological aspects.; Environmental psychology.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropology, (New March 2000); Tourism and Travel.; Man.; Alternative tourism.; Behavioural changes.; Cultural tourism.; Ecotourism.; Farm tourism.; Health tourism.; Human behaviour.; Personal development.; Religious tourism.; Sport tourism.; Tourism.; Travel.; Electronic books.
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This book deals with the issue of how travel and tourism, if developed in a proper form, can contribute to human transformation, growth and development, and change human behaviour and our relationship with the world. The volume investigates the experiences offered by travel and tourism that can chan...

Table of Contents:

• Hopeful tourism : a transformational perspective / Annette Pritchard and Nigel Morgan
• Transformation and transformational learning theory / Yvette Reisinger
• Connection between travel, tourism and transformation / Yvette Reisinger
• Not 'on vacation' : survival escapist travel as an agent of transformation / Kylie Radel and Wendy Hillman
• Transforming quality of life through wellness tourism / Melanie Smith
• Retreat tourism as a form of transformational tourism / Paul Heintzman
• Nearer to God
• transformational experiences of short-term mission travellers / Yoon Jung Lee and Ulrike Gretzel
• The transformative power of yoga tourism / Lauren M. Ponder and Patrick J. Holladay
• Extreme sports as transformational tourism / Eric Brymer
• Returning home : reflections on lifestyle transformation resulting from international backpacker travels / Mark Kanning
• Finding themselves in San Blas, Panama / Amy Savener
• WWOOFing tourists : beaten tracks and transformational paths / Adrian Deville and Stephen Wearing
• The next stage of eco-travel : facilitating transformation through personal ethics / Agnes M.K. Nowaczek
• Acculturation, re-entry and transformation: the story of a volunteer tourist / Simone Grabowski
• Travel for education: a force for peace and cross-cultural understanding? / Lorraine Brown
• Doing good for God's sake: the role of religion in altruism. The case of volunteer tourism / Jennifer L. Erdely
• Conclusion / Yvette Reisinger.