Transformational tourism : host perspectives /

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 -...

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Corporate Author: C.A.B. International
Other Authors: Reisinger, Yvette (Editor)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : CAB International, [2015]
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Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
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Summary: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 Budapest; 7 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 Development; 12 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.
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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (xv, 219 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references and index.
DOI:10.1079/9781780643922.0000