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This book responds to the need to investigate the complex links
between sex and leisure and their implications for research and
practice. Understanding sex as leisure aligns with sex-positive
culture that focuses on affirming pleasure in the contemporary
sexual discourse and advocating for sexual diversity, freedom,
empowerment, and fulfilling sex lives. The focus of this book is on
analyzing the complexity of sex as leisure in various
socio-cultural and geographical contexts, with particular reference
to vulnerable populations and pressing sexual issues, including
sexual pleasure and expression, biomedicalization of sexuality, and
social justice and sexuality. Specific chapters offer diverse
international coverage and address the links between a positive
sexuality framework and leisure research. The chapters cover sexual
play and sex toys based on consumer experience perspectives; using
the leisure lens to analyze sex and pornography addiction;
quadriplegic sexuality and leisure; rejection and resilience on a
gay cruise; relational dynamics of aging, exploitation, and deceit
in sex tourism; sexual harassment of solo female travelers; and the
complexity of consent in the sexualized leisure space of a
pornography expo. This book will be of great value to those
interested in transdisciplinary scholarship as it critically
broadens the bio-psycho-socio-cultural perspective of sex as
leisure. The chapters in this book were originally published as a
special issue of the journal, Leisure Sciences.
Wild animals form an integral component of the human leisure
experience. They are a significant part of the leisure industry and
are economically valuable entities. However, as sentient beings,
animals also have rights and welfare needs, and, like humans, may
also have their own leisure desires and requirements. This
collection provides an in-depth analysis of the rights and welfare
of humans and wild animals as the two relate to one another within
the sphere of leisure studies. It examines a wide array of animals,
such as wolves, elephants, dolphins and apes, in a diverse range of
leisure settings in international locations, from captive wild
animals in zoos, hunting, swimming with dolphins and animals used
as educators and for tourist entertainment. This book provides a
forum for future considerations of wild animals and leisure and a
voice for animal welfarist agendas that seek to improve the
conditions under which wild animals interact with and are engaged
with by humans.
Domestic animals are an integral component of human leisure
experience and can enhance the physical, social, and mental
wellbeing of humans. The interplay of human and animal experiences
of justice, wellbeing, rights, and roles within leisure is the
central theme of this book. Research explores the position of
domesticated animals in human leisure experiences, in a wide array
of leisure settings. Chapters question whether domestic animals may
have a desire for leisure that is different from human leisure,
whether animals have and wish to fulfil needs for meaningful
leisure or non-leisure, and whether human leisure needs and desires
may coincide or contradict wellbeing interests of animals. This
book provides a venue for the dissemination and exploration of
research, which champions the welfare and rights of these animals
to have their needs and interests in leisure recognised. It moves
the debate about animals in leisure beyond the current limits which
have seen research mainly confined to the exotic 'other' rather
than more mundane, everyday domestic animals. This book will be of
interest to individuals in the fields of tourism ethics, zoology,
animal behaviour, and leisure studies.
This book aims to further academic debate within the leisure and
tourism studies community about the role of 'families' in
contemporary life and the experiences of families and their
children in the leisure environment. It is based on the recognition
of the diverse nature of the family in the contemporary era and the
position of children in families and society in general as active
and knowing social agents rather than as passive objects. The
family is on the one hand our first community with its own special
kind of human attachment and on the other a little world on which
the larger society is modelled. Families form the closest and most
important emotional bond in humans. This relationship is what
drives humanity and society, and positions families at the centre
of leisure activities. This international and multi-disciplinary
compilation of recent research into children and families examines
progress made and challenges ahead for leisure studies. It extends
the academic discourse to a wider understanding of what families,
children and their leisure behaviour mean in today's societies.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Annals of
Leisure Research.
Children's and Families' Holiday Experiences is based on the
recognition of the active social role of children in shaping the
nature of their holiday experiences and those of their parents and
other adults. The volume provides significant insights into the
holiday desires, expectations, and experiences of children and
their families that offer the potential for the tourism industry to
plan, develop, and market products that provide a higher quality of
service to these populations. This book traces the modern history
of the demand for and provision of holidays for children and
families. As part of this it examines the nature of the holiday
desires of parents and children and the roles society and the
tourism industry play in influencing these. It provides an analysis
of the changing nature of the holiday desires and experiences of
children as they evolve through different life stages and the
influence this has on the shape of family holidays. Given
increasing concerns about child safety and education, this book
examines both issues within the tourism experience. Finally, the
book analyzes how the tourism industry caters to the needs of
children and families and offers insights into how this could be
improved in the future. This thorough investigation will be of
interest to students, researchers and academics in the areas of
Tourism, Geography and Child and Family Studies as well as the
tourism Industry.
This book aims to further academic debate within the leisure and
tourism studies community about the role of 'families' in
contemporary life and the experiences of families and their
children in the leisure environment. It is based on the recognition
of the diverse nature of the family in the contemporary era and the
position of children in families and society in general as active
and knowing social agents rather than as passive objects. The
family is on the one hand our first community with its own special
kind of human attachment and on the other a little world on which
the larger society is modelled. Families form the closest and most
important emotional bond in humans. This relationship is what
drives humanity and society, and positions families at the centre
of leisure activities. This international and multi-disciplinary
compilation of recent research into children and families examines
progress made and challenges ahead for leisure studies. It extends
the academic discourse to a wider understanding of what families,
children and their leisure behaviour mean in today's societies.
This book was originally published as a special issue of Annals of
Leisure Research.
Children's and Families' Holiday Experiences is based on the
recognition of the active social role of children in shaping the
nature of their holiday experiences and those of their parents and
other adults. The volume provides significant insights into the
holiday desires, expectations, and experiences of children and
their families that offer the potential for the tourism industry to
plan, develop, and market products that provide a higher quality of
service to these populations. This book traces the modern history
of the demand for and provision of holidays for children and
families. As part of this it examines the nature of the holiday
desires of parents and children and the roles society and the
tourism industry play in influencing these. It provides an analysis
of the changing nature of the holiday desires and experiences of
children as they evolve through different life stages and the
influence this has on the shape of family holidays. Given
increasing concerns about child safety and education, this book
examines both issues within the tourism experience. Finally, the
book analyses how the tourism industry caters to the needs of
children and families and offers insights into how this could be
improved in the future. This thorough investigation will be of
interest to students, researchers and academics in the areas of
Tourism, Geography and Child and Family Studies as well as the
tourism Industry.
The global popularity and lucrative potential of tourism has made
sustainability a major concern for archaeologists, site managers,
politicians, local communities, tourism officials, and other
stakeholders. This book establishes new, interdisciplinary ground
for tourism and archaeology that will foster a new generation of
sustainable thinking and practice. First, three teams of co-authors
from both disciplines tackle key conceptual dilemmas: exploration
vs. exploitation, education vs. entertainment, and cultural
sensitivity vs. embeddedness. Then, international case studies
examine site development, marketing, community relations, and other
on-the-ground examples of heritage work. The volume launches an
important new era of collaboration in this growing field.
The global popularity and lucrative potential of tourism has made
sustainability a major concern for archaeologists, site managers,
politicians, local communities, tourism officials, and other
stakeholders. This book establishes new, interdisciplinary ground
for tourism and archaeology that will foster a new generation of
sustainable thinking and practice. First, three teams of co-authors
from both disciplines tackle key conceptual dilemmas: exploration
vs. exploitation, education vs. entertainment, and cultural
sensitivity vs. embeddedness. Then, international case studies
examine site development, marketing, community relations, and other
on-the-ground examples of heritage work. The volume launches an
important new era of collaboration in this growing field.
This book encompasses the diversity and complexity of sex in
tourism, incorporating the light, dark and shades of grey in
between. It brings together work and ideas from a diverse array of
researchers from around the world and examines the affects and
effects of diverse sexual encounters in tourism, romance tourism,
sex tourism and sexual exploitation in tourism - including the
sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism, and sexual
harassment. Sex in tourism has arguably been an understudied area
of research relative to the central roles that sex plays within
tourism experiences. This volume explores the complexity and
nuanced nature of sex in tourism in more detail. It will be of
interest to students and researchers of tourism impacts, tourist
behaviour, hospitality management, destination management and
development.
Social tourism - the practice of offering programmes, events and
activities to enable disadvantaged population groups to enjoy
tourism - is of increasing interest to academia. Beginning with an
introduction to the social tourism concept, its relevance and
target groups, this book then provides reflections about emerging
topics case studies of programmes in action across Europe, Oceania
and the Americas. It considers the tourism experience from the
point of view of young people, families, senior citizens and people
with disabilities, before covering the impacts of social tourism
initiatives on both participants and tourism destinations. It
concludes by reflecting on the practical challenges and policy
implications emerging from theory and practice, highlighting common
challenges and identifying guidelines for designing social tourism
initiatives. This book: Covers the challenges faced by the sector
and the relevance of promoting tourism programmes for disadvantaged
groups of society. Promotes research that bridges theory and
practice, permitting the identification of guidelines for more
effective social tourism initiatives. Includes case studies from
around the world to provide a global perspective. An important read
for researchers of tourism, social inclusion and accessibility,
this book will therefore also be of interest to students and
practitioners of these areas.
Domestic animals are an integral component of human leisure
experience and can enhance the physical, social, and mental
wellbeing of humans. The interplay of human and animal experiences
of justice, wellbeing, rights, and roles within leisure is the
central theme of this book. Research explores the position of
domesticated animals in human leisure experiences, in a wide array
of leisure settings. Chapters question whether domestic animals may
have a desire for leisure that is different from human leisure,
whether animals have and wish to fulfil needs for meaningful
leisure or non-leisure, and whether human leisure needs and desires
may coincide or contradict wellbeing interests of animals. This
book provides a venue for the dissemination and exploration of
research, which champions the welfare and rights of these animals
to have their needs and interests in leisure recognised. It moves
the debate about animals in leisure beyond the current limits which
have seen research mainly confined to the exotic 'other' rather
than more mundane, everyday domestic animals. This book will be of
interest to individuals in the fields of tourism ethics, zoology,
animal behaviour, and leisure studies.
This volume offers both an insight into the current state of
research on domestic animals in leisure and a lens through which to
begin to chart the future of research in this field. All of the
contributions to the collection are underpinned by ongoing debates
about human-animal relationships and the rights and welfare of the
latter.
This book encompasses the diversity and complexity of sex in
tourism, incorporating the light, dark and shades of grey in
between. It brings together work and ideas from a diverse array of
researchers from around the world and examines the affects and
effects of diverse sexual encounters in tourism, romance tourism,
sex tourism and sexual exploitation in tourism - including the
sexual exploitation of children in travel and tourism, and sexual
harassment. Sex in tourism has arguably been an understudied area
of research relative to the central roles that sex plays within
tourism experiences. This volume explores the complexity and
nuanced nature of sex in tourism in more detail. It will be of
interest to students and researchers of tourism impacts, tourist
behaviour, hospitality management, destination management and
development.
Wild animals form an integral component of the human leisure
experience. They are a significant part of the leisure industry and
are economically valuable entities. However, as sentient beings,
animals also have rights and welfare needs, and, like humans, may
also have their own leisure desires and requirements. This
collection provides an in-depth analysis of the rights and welfare
of humans and wild animals as the two relate to one another within
the sphere of leisure studies. It examines a wide array of animals,
such as wolves, elephants, dolphins and apes, in a diverse range of
leisure settings in international locations, from captive wild
animals in zoos, hunting, swimming with dolphins and animals used
as educators and for tourist entertainment. This book provides a
forum for future considerations of wild animals and leisure and a
voice for animal welfarist agendas that seek to improve the
conditions under which wild animals interact with and are engaged
with by humans.
The benefits of being outdoors in a leisure context are widely
acknowledged across a range of disciplinary perspectives (including
tourism, therapeutics, education and recreation). These benefits
include the development of: health and wellbeing; social skills;
leadership and facilitation skills; personal, emotional and
reflective abilities; confidence and identity creation. Drawing on
a variety of perspectives, geographies and approaches, this book
explores the opportunities that leisure in the outdoors provides
for learning, developing and challenging. The authors in this
collection challenge dominant discourses of outdoor leisure through
their selection of outdoor activities, theoretical approaches and
modes of representation. All offer fresh insights and thinking into
how leisure in the outdoors can be understood. The book covers a
range of outdoor conceptualisations that challenge the reader to
think deeply and broadly about the common threads which bind the
broad field of outdoor leisure together. The experiences explored
in this book range from suburban outdoors to wild places, surfing
to mindful reflection, and trail walking to Nordic skiing, and
encompass a broad spectrum of people. This book will appeal to
outdoor scholars from a variety of contexts, including recreation,
tourism, and adventure. It provides: *original and leading research
across layers of meaning attributed to and drawn from leisure
experiences in the outdoors; *value in theorising the notions of
outdoor experiences; *a variety and scope of contexts and
approaches for students to draw on when learning about the field of
outdoor leisure.
"This text is long overdue and timely. Carr and Broom have placed
the issues firmly in the broader context of the relationship
between our species and the others which share this planet with
us...As they argue it is possible for tourists and the travel and
tourism sector to take and exercise responsibility to drive change,
Carr and Broom's text helps us to understand the issues and the
context and to make better-informed choices." Harold Goodwin
Responsible Tourism Partnership Animals are among the most sought
after tourist attractions and the impact on them is a matter of
concern to an increasing number of people. Tourism and Animal
Welfare uniquely addresses the issue of animal welfare within the
tourism experience. It explores important foundations such as the
meaning of 'animal welfare' and its relation to ethics, animal
rights and human obligations to animals. It also explores the
nature and diversity of the position and role of animals within
tourism. 'Tales from the front line' is the section of the book
that provides the reader with the views and experiences of animal
welfare organisations, individual leaders, tourism industry
organisations and operators, and academic experts. These case
studies and opinion pieces will encourage the reader to consider
their own position regarding animals in tourism and their welfare.
The book: * is written by an authoritative author team that draws
from the fields of tourism studies (Neil Carr) and animal welfare
science (Donald Broom); * contains 14 case studies written by
internationally recognised experts and iconic individuals in the
field of animal welfare; * is written in an engaging style and
features full colour illustrations. From students and academics to
vets and those working within the tourism industry, this book will
provide an engaging and thought-provoking read. It will also appeal
to those with an interest in animal welfare, particularly in
relation to the tourism industry.
Animals are among the most sought after tourist attractions and the
impact on them is a matter of concern to an increasing number of
people. Tourism and Animal Welfare uniquely addresses the issue of
animal welfare within the tourism experience. It explores important
foundations such as the meaning of 'animal welfare' and its
relation to ethics, animal rights and human obligations to animals.
It also explores the nature and diversity of the position and role
of animals within tourism. 'Tales from the front line' is the
section of the book that provides the reader with the views and
experiences of animal welfare organisations, individual leaders,
tourism industry organisations and operators, and academic experts.
These case studies and opinion pieces will encourage the reader to
consider their own position regarding animals in tourism and their
welfare. The book: * is written by an authoritative author team
that draws from the fields of tourism studies (Neil Carr) and
animal welfare science (Donald Broom); * contains 14 case studies
written by internationally recognised experts and iconic
individuals in the field of animal welfare; * is written in an
engaging style and features full colour illustrations. From
students and academics to vets and those working within the tourism
industry, this book will provide an engaging and thought-provoking
read. It will also appeal to those with an interest in animal
welfare, particularly in relation to the tourism industry.
This book explores the social and cultural constructions and
debates of what are dogs and what is leisure. It looks at how
working dogs play a significant role in leisure experiences such as
ensuring the safety of air transport, and considers the differing
roles and changing acceptance of dogs' involvement in sport. Within
the setting of the animal welfare and sentience debates, it
examines the leisure needs of dogs and their owners. Providing an
original contribution to our understanding of dogs as both
participants and objects in the leisure experience, this book is a
useful resource for researchers in leisure, hospitality and
tourism.
Sex and the sexual have for far too long been consigned to the dark
corners by social scientists in general and tourism and leisure
scholars in particular. Sex and the Sexual During People's Leisure
and Tourism Experiences seeks to begin to rectify this situation by
bringing the position and nature of sex and the sexual into the
light of academic debate. As such, this book is designed to
highlight cross-disciplinary emerging work on sex and the sexual in
leisure and tourism and provide the readers with insights into this
social realm. It encompasses a broad array of sex-related issues
and tourism and leisure environments from across a variety of
countries. The book should appeal to researchers and students
across the humanities and social sciences both for the value of the
research in its own right and the ability of it to be used as a
lens through which to view the position of sex and the sexual as
well as tourism and leisure in today's world. Overall, it is argued
that sex and the sexual should play a part in the academic
discourse, especially if we wish to describe what is actually
happening out there as far as tourism and leisure are concerned.
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