Abstract: Erik Cohen: ForewordTej Vir Singh: PrefaceTej Vir Singh: Introduction1. I am a Traveller, You are a Visitor, They are Tourists 'But who are Post-tourists'?1.1 Scott McCabe: Are We all Post-tourists now? Tourist Categories, Identity and Postmodernity1.2 David Dunn: Those People were a Kind of Solution: Post-Tourists and Grand Narratives 1.3 Natan Uriely: Exploring the Post-Tourist: Guidelines for Future Research2. Is Tourist a Secular Pilgrim or a Hedonist in Search of Pleasure?2.1 Dan Knox and Kevin Hannam: The Secular Pilgrim: Are We Flogging a Dead Metaphor?2.2 Peter Jan Margry: Whisky and Pilgrimage: Clearing Up Commonalities 2.3 Noel B. Salazar: To Be or Not to Be a Tourist: The Role of Concept-Metaphors in Tourism Studies 3. Do Tourists Travel for the Discovery of 'Self' or to Search for the 'Other'?3.1 Gianna Moscardo: A Journey in Search of Self and the 'Other'? 3.2 Graham Dann: The Quest for the Self or the 'Other' as Motivation for Travel: Simple Choice or Spoiled for Choice?3.3 Bob McKercher: Tourism: The Quest for the Selfish 4. Is Volunteerism a New Avatar of Travelism?4.1 Stephen Wearing, Simone Grabowski and Jennie Small: Volunteer Tourism: Return of the Traveller4.2 Kevin Lyons: Reciprocity in Volunteer Tourism and Travelism 4.3 Daniel Guttentag: Volunteer Tourism: Insights from the Past, Concerns about the Present and Questions for the Future4.4 Alexandra Coghlan: Volunteer Tourism: A New Narrative between Hosts and Guests5. Tourism's Invulnerability: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics5.1 Julio Aramberri: Is Tourism Vulnerable?5.2 Richard Sharpley: Tourism and Vulnerability: A Case of Pessimism? 5.3 Carson L. Jenkins: Is Tourism Vulnerable? An Ambiguous Question6. Vanishing Peripheries: Does Tourism Consume Places?6.1 C. M. Hall: Elaborating Core-Periphery Relations in Tourism 6.2 David Harrison: Vanishing Peripheries and Shifting Centres: Structural Certainties or Negotiated Ambiguities? 6.3 David Weaver: Moving in from the Margins: Experiential Consumption and the Pleasure Core 6.4 Geoffrey Wall: Tourism in Peripheries7. Tourism is More Sinned Against than Sinning7.1 Richard Sharpley: In Defence of Tourism7.2 Noel Scott: Original Sin: A Lack of (Tourism) Knowledge7.3 Jim Macbeth: Tourism: The Good, the Bad and the Sinner? 7.4 Peter Smith: In Defence of Tourism: A Re-assessment 8. Is Concept of Sustainability Utopian? Ideally Perfect but Hard to Practice8.1 Stephen McCool: Sustainable Tourism: Guiding Fiction, Social Trap or Path to Resilience?8.2 Richard Butler: Sustainable Tourism - The Undefinable and Unachievable Pursued by the Unrealistic?8.3 Ralf Buckley: Tourism and the Sustainability of Human Societies 8.4 David Weaver: Whither Sustainable Tourism? But First, a Good Hard Look in the Mirror 8.5 Brian Wheeller: Sustainable Tourism: Milestone or Millstone?9. What is Wrong with the Concept of Carrying Capacity?9.1 Ralf Buckley: Tourism Capacity Concepts9.2 Sagar Singh: A Twist in the Tale of Carrying Capacity: Towards a Formula for Sustainable Tourism? 9.3 Gene Brothers: Tragedy of the Tourism Commons: A Need for Carrying Capacities9.4 Simon McArthur: Why Carrying Capacity Should be a Last Resort?10. Knowledge Management in Tourism: Are the Stakeholders Research-Averse?10.1 Chris Cooper: Transferring Tourism Knowledge - A Challenge for Tourism Educators and Researchers 10.2 Lisa Ruhanen: Transferring Tourism Knowledge: Research on Climate Change and Sustainability10.3 Noel Scott: A Market Approach to Tourism Knowledge11. Tourism for Whom? - The Unmet Challenge11.1 Richard Butler: What has Tourism Ever Done for Us?11.2 C. M. Hall: What has Tourism Ever Done for Us? Depends Where You're Looking from and Who's Looking 11.3 Geoffrey Wall: Tourism has Done a Lot for Us, for Both Good and Ill11.4 John Swarbrooke: Are we going to Use Tourism or to be Used by Tourism?Index
Publication Year: 2015
Publication Date: 2015-12-31
Language: en
Type: book
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