Controversies in Tourism
Title | Controversies in Tourism PDF eBook |
Author | Omar Moufakkir |
Publisher | CABI |
Pages | 276 |
Release | 2012 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1845938135 |
Tourism impacts on locations in many ways - socially, environmentally, culturally, and economically. This book examines some well established controversies in tourism and some newly emerging controversial aspects associated with tourism as an activity and a business. Controversies involving clashes between visitors and host communities, the rights and wrongs of eco-tourism, the impacts of mega-events, the legitimacy of dark tourism, and the costs and benefits of medical and wildlife tourism are assessed. This book is an interesting and thought provoking work ideal for tourism students, researchers and academics.
Tourism Paradoxes
Title | Tourism Paradoxes PDF eBook |
Author | Erdinç Çakmak |
Publisher | Channel View Publications |
Pages | 268 |
Release | 2021-01-15 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 184541814X |
At a time when COVID-19 is transforming the tourism industry, this book presents a collection of some of the many contemporary contradictions and inconsistencies apparent in tourism contexts and tourism studies. Increasingly, tourism is regarded as an agent of social and cultural change, in ways which inevitably throw up new and inescapable paradoxes. The chapters draw attention to paradoxes (such as Anglo-Western-centrism/Non-Western imperatives, continued colonisation/decolonisation, political apparatus/people’s empowerment, global standards/local dynamics) and their prominence in the tourism field as well as in other disciplines. The volume offers a reconsideration of what may be needed, conceptually and methodologically, in order to equip researchers and practitioners in tourism and related social science fields to better interpret and manage the future of tourism.
Tourism Encounters and Controversies
Title | Tourism Encounters and Controversies PDF eBook |
Author | Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson |
Publisher | Routledge |
Pages | 256 |
Release | 2016-03-09 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1317009517 |
The multiplicity of tourism encounters provide some of the best available occasions to observe the social world and its making(s). Focusing on ontological politics of tourism development, this book examines how different versions of tourism are enacted, how encounters between different versions of tourism orderings may result in controversies, but also on how these enactments and encounters are entangled in multiple ways to broader areas of development, conservation, policy and destination management. Throughout the book, encounters and controversies are investigated from a poststructuralist and relational approach as complex and emerging, seeing the roles and characteristics of related actors as co-constituted. Inspired by post-actor-network theory and related research, the studies include the social as well as the material, but also multiplicity and ontological politics when examining controversial matters or events.
Current Issues in Tourism, Gastronomy, and Tourist Destination Research
Title | Current Issues in Tourism, Gastronomy, and Tourist Destination Research PDF eBook |
Author | Hera Oktadiana |
Publisher | Taylor & Francis |
Pages | 471 |
Release | 2022-05-25 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1000619095 |
The book focuses on contemporary research on tourism, gastronomy, and tourist destinations presented at the 3rd Tourism Gastronomy and Destination International Conference (TGDIC 2021). It serves as a platform for knowledge and experience sharing and invites tourism scholars, practitioners, decision-makers, and stakeholders from all parts of society and from various regions of the world to share their knowledge, experience, concepts, examples of good practice, and critical analysis with their international peers. The research papers presented at the conference were organized into three main categories: tourism, gastronomy, and tourist destinations, written by authors from various countries such as Indonesia, China, India, Switzerland, UK, Portugal, and Hungary.
Philosophical Issues in Tourism
Title | Philosophical Issues in Tourism PDF eBook |
Author | John Tribe |
Publisher | Channel View Publications |
Pages | 315 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 1845410963 |
The aim of this book is to bridge the disciplines of philosophy and tourism and to provide an analysis and application of philosophical issues of tourism. In doing so this book focuses on three key areas of knowledge, aesthetics and values.
Tourism Encounters and Controversies Ontological Politics of Tourism Development
Title | Tourism Encounters and Controversies Ontological Politics of Tourism Development PDF eBook |
Author | Gunnar Thor Johannesson |
Publisher | Lund Humphries Publishers |
Pages | 272 |
Release | 2015-06-01 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9781472424372 |
Focusing on ontological politics of tourism development, this book examines how different versions of tourism are enacted, how encounters between different versions of tourism orderings may result in controversies, but also on how these enactments and encounters are entangled in multiple ways to broader areas of development, conservation, policy and destination management. Inspired by post-actor-network theory and related research, the studies include the social as well as the material, but also multiplicity and ontological politics when examining controversial matters or events.
Travel Matters
Title | Travel Matters PDF eBook |
Author | Charles White |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 2000 |
Genre | Tourism |
ISBN | 9781872365664 |
Presents copiable newspaper articles and cartoons on the issues and controversies of travel and tourism. This work covers: advertising, backpacking, charity challenges, dangerous pursuits, dangers to tourists, and more. It is intended for age range 14-18 year olds. It is useful for Travel and Tourism and Library/LRC.