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This comprehensive book focuses on how the COVID-19 pandemic is
transforming travel and tourism, globally. Despite the devastation
caused by COVID-19, authors argue that within the ongoing crisis,
there is also an opportunity to positively transform the tourism
sector in ways that contribute to a more hopeful future for tourism
practitioners, tourists and host communities. As the world emerges
from the shadow of COVID-19 there will not be a return to the
"normal". Rather, the volume shares a vision of global
transformation that is driven at least in part by the changing ways
people in the post-COVID-19 era may travel and encounter each other
and their environments. Individual chapters explore topics such as:
regenerative economies, transformational travel, critical
perspectives on pandemics and tourism, sustainable development and
resilience post-COVID-19, re-discovering and re-localising tourism,
global (im)mobilities, transforming tourism management, as well as
new value systems for travel and tourism including the chance to
strengthen social equity and social justice as tourism returns
after COVID-19. In this edited volume, a series of senior and
emerging scholars engage with debates on how to best contribute to
more substantial, meaningful, and positive planetary shifts within
the tourism industry. The chapters in this book were originally
published as a special issue of the journal Tourism Geographies.
In a world increasingly faced with, and divided by, regional and
global crises, resilience has emerged as a key concept with
significant relevance for tourism. A paradigmatic shift is taking
place in the long-term planning of tourism development, in which
the prevailing focus on sustainability is being enhanced with the
practical application of resilience planning. This book provides a
critical appraisal of sustainability and resilience, and the
relationship between the two. Contributions highlight the
complexity of addressing social change with resilience planning in
a range of tourism contexts, from islands to mountains, from urban
to remote environments, and in a range of international settings.
Case studies articulate how tourism is both an agent of social
change and a victim of larger change processes, and provide
important lessons on how to deal with increasingly unstable
economic, social and environmental systems. This is the first book
to specifically examine social change and sustainability in tourism
through a resilience lens. This much-needed contribution to the
literature will be a key resource for those working in tourism
studies, tourism planning and management, social geography, and
development studies, among others.
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Handbook of Niche Tourism (Hardcover)
Marina Novelli, Joseph M Cheer, Claudia Dolezal, Adam Jones, Claudio Milano
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This Handbook provides a critical analysis of the evolution of the
contemporary niche tourism phenomenon. By framing discussions
around sustainable development thinking, concepts and practical
applications, each chapter provides specific reflections on niche
tourism trends, successes and/or failures, and the challenges and
opportunities that destinations that pursue tourism as a vehicle
for sustainable development face around the world. The Handbook
includes a blend of academic and practitioner contributors
providing a balance of theoretical, conceptual and empirical
elaborations on the topic, with case studies from across the globe.
It covers a broad range of critical thematic areas, including:
nature-based tourism, rural tourism, heritage and culture based
tourism, dark tourism, spiritual, religious and wellness tourism,
and social and inclusive tourism. Chapters also examine the latest
developments in niche tourism, including the impact of Covid-19.
This invigorating and comprehensive study of niche tourism will
benefit sustainable tourism scholars, as well as tourism
researchers and students more broadly. It will also be useful to
policy makers and tourism practitioners seeking a better
understanding of this increasingly important field.
Over the last decade, while many scholars have maintained their
interest in the classical debate concerning the impacts of tourism,
some have attempted new conceptualisations, while others have
converged towards critical narratives promoted by a number of
social movements, and have become involved in subsequent
discussions on ‘overtourism’ and ‘tourismphobia’. The terms
'overtourism' and 'tourismphobia' have their genesis in the rapid
unfolding of unsustainable mass tourism practices and the responses
that these have generated amongst academics, practitioners, social
movements and grassroots organizations concerned with the
detrimental use of urban, rural and coastal spaces, among others,
for tourism purposes. The renewed interest in the study of the
adverse impacts of tourism, as implied in the term 'overtourism',
is related to a variety of well-established causes. Travel and
Tourism in the Age of Overtourism builds on existing knowledge and
makes a theoretical and practical contribution the overtourism
debate and the system dynamics underlining it. This collection
suggests ways to address this from a tourism and planning
perspective. It offers critical reflections on the contemporary
evolution of tourism development and the implication of such
processes on people, places and spaces. The chapters in this book
were originally published as a Special Issue of the journal Tourism
Planning & Development.
This book considers what the transition into the Asian Century
means for some of the most urgent issues in the world today, such
as sustainable development, human rights, gender equality, and
environmental change. The book critiques Anglo-Western centrism in
tourism theory and calls on tourism scholars to make radical shifts
toward more inclusive epistemology and praxis. From the British
Century of the 1800s to the American Century of the 1900s to the
contemporary Asian Century, tourism geographies are deeply
entangled in broader shifts in geopolitical power. In the shadow of
the COVID-19 pandemic, the significance of shifts in tourism
geographies and the themes addressed in this volume are more urgent
than ever. That the world faces increasing turmoil is abundantly
clear. Yet, amidst the disruption to the everyday, it is hope and
compassion, but also political-economic restructuring that is
needed to reset the tourism industry in more sustainable,
equitable, and ethical directions. In no uncertain terms, the
pandemic has forever changed the tourism industry as the world once
knew it. This book, therefore, sets out to collectively build on
the momentum of the inclusive scholarship that Critical Tourism
Studies-Asia Pacific is renowned for, while also asking readers to
pause and reflect on the possibilities and challenges of tourism in
a post-pandemic Asian Century. The chapters in this book were
originally published as a special issue of the journal, Tourism
Geographies.
This comprehensive book focuses on how the COVID-19 pandemic is
transforming travel and tourism, globally. Despite the devastation
caused by COVID-19, authors argue that within the ongoing crisis,
there is also an opportunity to positively transform the tourism
sector in ways that contribute to a more hopeful future for tourism
practitioners, tourists and host communities. As the world emerges
from the shadow of COVID-19 there will not be a return to the
"normal". Rather, the volume shares a vision of global
transformation that is driven at least in part by the changing ways
people in the post-COVID-19 era may travel and encounter each other
and their environments. Individual chapters explore topics such as:
regenerative economies, transformational travel, critical
perspectives on pandemics and tourism, sustainable development and
resilience post-COVID-19, re-discovering and re-localising tourism,
global (im)mobilities, transforming tourism management, as well as
new value systems for travel and tourism including the chance to
strengthen social equity and social justice as tourism returns
after COVID-19. In this edited volume, a series of senior and
emerging scholars engage with debates on how to best contribute to
more substantial, meaningful, and positive planetary shifts within
the tourism industry. The chapters in this book were originally
published as a special issue of the journal Tourism Geographies.
In a world increasingly faced with, and divided by, regional and
global crises, resilience has emerged as a key concept with
significant relevance for tourism. A paradigmatic shift is taking
place in the long-term planning of tourism development, in which
the prevailing focus on sustainability is being enhanced with the
practical application of resilience planning. This book provides a
critical appraisal of sustainability and resilience, and the
relationship between the two. Contributions highlight the
complexity of addressing social change with resilience planning in
a range of tourism contexts, from islands to mountains, from urban
to remote environments, and in a range of international settings.
Case studies articulate how tourism is both an agent of social
change and a victim of larger change processes, and provide
important lessons on how to deal with increasingly unstable
economic, social and environmental systems. This is the first book
to specifically examine social change and sustainability in tourism
through a resilience lens. This much-needed contribution to the
literature will be a key resource for those working in tourism
studies, tourism planning and management, social geography, and
development studies, among others.
Over the last decade, while many scholars have maintained their
interest in the classical debate concerning the impacts of tourism,
some have attempted new conceptualisations, while others have
converged towards critical narratives promoted by a number of
social movements, and have become involved in subsequent
discussions on 'overtourism' and 'tourismphobia'. The terms
'overtourism' and 'tourismphobia' have their genesis in the rapid
unfolding of unsustainable mass tourism practices and the responses
that these have generated amongst academics, practitioners, social
movements and grassroots organizations concerned with the
detrimental use of urban, rural and coastal spaces, among others,
for tourism purposes. The renewed interest in the study of the
adverse impacts of tourism, as implied in the term 'overtourism',
is related to a variety of well-established causes. Travel and
Tourism in the Age of Overtourism builds on existing knowledge and
makes a theoretical and practical contribution the overtourism
debate and the system dynamics underlining it. This collection
suggests ways to address this from a tourism and planning
perspective. It offers critical reflections on the contemporary
evolution of tourism development and the implication of such
processes on people, places and spaces. The chapters in this book
were originally published as a Special Issue of the journal Tourism
Planning & Development.
In recent years, resilience theory has come to occupy the core of
our understanding and management of the adaptive capacity of people
and places in complex social and environmental systems. Despite
this, tourism scholars have been slow to adopt resilience concepts,
at a time when the emergence of new frameworks and applications is
pressing. Drawing on original empirical and theoretical insights in
resilience thinking, this book explores how tourism communities and
economies respond to environmental changes, both fast (natural
hazard disasters) and slow (incremental shifts). It explores how
tourism places adapt, change, and sometimes transform (or not) in
relation to their environmental context, with an awareness of
intersection with societal dynamics and links to political,
economic and social drivers of change. Contributions draw on
empirical research conducted in a range of international settings,
including indigenous communities, to explore the complexity and
gradations of environmental change encounters and resilience
planning responses in a range of tourism contexts. As the first
book to specifically focus on environmental change from a
resilience perspective, this timely and original work makes a
critical contribution to tourism studies, tourism management and
environmental geography, as well as environmental sciences and
development studies.
In recent years, resilience theory has come to occupy the core of
our understanding and management of the adaptive capacity of people
and places in complex social and environmental systems. Despite
this, tourism scholars have been slow to adopt resilience concepts,
at a time when the emergence of new frameworks and applications is
pressing. Drawing on original empirical and theoretical insights in
resilience thinking, this book explores how tourism communities and
economies respond to environmental changes, both fast (natural
hazard disasters) and slow (incremental shifts). It explores how
tourism places adapt, change, and sometimes transform (or not) in
relation to their environmental context, with an awareness of
intersection with societal dynamics and links to political,
economic and social drivers of change. Contributions draw on
empirical research conducted in a range of international settings,
including indigenous communities, to explore the complexity and
gradations of environmental change encounters and resilience
planning responses in a range of tourism contexts. As the first
book to specifically focus on environmental change from a
resilience perspective, this timely and original work makes a
critical contribution to tourism studies, tourism management and
environmental geography, as well as environmental sciences and
development studies.
The links between islands and tourism as sights of pleasure is
embodied in the touristification of sun, sand, and sea.
Islandscapes are central to the tourist imaginaries that shape
islands as touristified places -- curated, designed, and
commodified for both mass tourism and more niche inclined versions.
Yet while islands are parlayed for touristic pleasure seekers,
islands are also home to longstanding communities that have
variously battled with the tyranny of distance from metropolitan
centers, as well as the everyday challenges of climate change
effects, and benefitted from their isolation from modern-day
pressures. To what extent are islandscapes resilient to rapidly
changing utilities, significances, and ways of life wrought by
tourism expansion? The vulnerability-resilience duality remains
firmly entrenched in the discourse on islands where tourism has
become prominent. Although tourism provides some resiliency,
overall, islandscapes remain subject to externally driven fast and
slow change that exercises an overwhelming influence. This
anthology of articles previously published in the journal Shima
explores emergent themes that describe how island peoples adapt and
respond in localized cultural islandscapes as a consequence of
tourism expansion. It is aimed at researchers in island studies,
tourism, sustainability, human geography, cultural studies,
sociology, and anthropology. The anthology will also be of interest
to those with an abiding interest in the trajectories of islands
and their peoples, particularly where tourism has come to shape
islandscapes.
This book delves into topics on pilgrimage travel and communities
from a variety of perspectives through academic research based on
the Middle East, Northeast Asia, the Indian subcontinent, and
Europe, where sacred sites have become of great importance for both
international and domestic tourism. In particular, Europe and Asia
possess a high volume of world-renowned pilgrimage sites that are
currently being developed as tourism destinations in their
respective countries, such as Santiago de Compostela (Spain),
Lourdes (France), and Koyasan (Japan). This book includes studies
on these two continents that harbor both a great history of
pilgrimage tradition, as well as tourism development related to
religious travel. The book importantly covers the role of the
community in religious tourism, as well as the impact on the
locals, which is comparatively an unexplored area. Whilst
pilgrimage is seen as an effective tool to revitalize local
economies, this book also reveals the different challenges to
achieving this goal. Realizing the importance of the
interrelationship of community and pilgrimage travel, as well as
the lack of studies on it, this book seeks to address this research
gap through 14 chapters divided into two parts, ‘Communities and
Constestation’ and ‘Pilgrimage Shaping Communities’. To
ensure diverse perspectives, case studies from different Eurasian
countries, written by authors with expertise in the study of
pilgrimage and religious travel, are included. Readers can expect
to gain new perspectives by having a deeper comprehension of the
‘community side‘ of pilgrimage travel in Eurasia, and thus an
integral understanding of contemporary pilgrimage
This volume is an essential reference for designing, analysing and
reflecting on field research. It advances the literature on gender
by taking a specific focus on masculinities. The book is organised
into four sections: hegemonic and heteronormative masculinities,
performing heteronormative masculinities, situated masculinities
and paternal masculinities. The chapters explore the question of
what it means to be a 'man' and definitions of masculinities. These
reflexive accounts of gendered field experiences further the call
for gender positionality in research and will aid tourism
researchers and other transdisciplinary scholars. It is a useful
tool for supervisors, ethics committee members and researchers
(male and female).
Orphanage tourism is where tourist interactions with 'orphaned'
children are central to traveller itineraries and experience making
in less-developed contexts. While appealing to the desire of
tourists and volunteers to 'do good' while travelling, underlining
orphanage tourism is the fact that the vast majority of children
(over 80%) in orphanages and allied care institutions are not
orphans. Instead, children are often placed in institutions due to
poverty and hardship, and as victims of human trafficking. In some
cases, orphanages can be for-profit enterprises, where the
commodification of good intentions begins and becomes embedded in
the tourism supply chain. Children are becoming tourist attractions
and the focus of tourist consumption, leading to orphanages as
sites of tourism production and consumption. The first of its kind,
this book highlights exploratory research that examines the links
between modern slavery practices and orphanage tourism.
Contributors include academics and practitioners with a long
engagement in advocacy for the rights and protection of children
and research into sustainable and responsible tourism. Written in
an accessible manner that appeals to a broad audience. This book
will appeal to researchers interested in the areas of tourism,
human geography, development studies, childhood studies, law and
social justice, as well as those interested in responsible and
sustainable travel. Practitioners, policy makers and civil society
groups working at the vanguard of tourism expansion and communities
in less-developed contexts - particularly where labour rights
transgressions, human exploitation and trafficking are prevalent -
will also find the book insightful. Royalties from the sales of
this book will be donated to Save the Children Australia and the
Forget Me Not Foundation.
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