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Record Nr.

UNINA9910626108903321

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

©2015

ISBN

1-78924-462-5

1-78064-393-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (235 p.)

Disciplina

306.4812

Soggetti

Sustainable tourism

Tourism - Social aspects

Community development

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

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

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

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.