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The Local Turn in Tourism : Empowering Communities / ed. by Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, Bobbie Chew Bigby.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Aspects of Tourism ; 95Publisher: Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Channel View Publications, [2022]Copyright date: ©2023Description: 1 online resource (328 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781845418809
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Contributors -- Dedication -- Preface -- Foreword -- Local Roots -- Introduction -- Part 1 Theorising Local Communities in Tourism Anew -- 1 Place-based Governance in Tourism: Placing Local Communities at the Centre of Tourism -- 2 Circular Oikonomia, Posthumanism and Local Space to Socialise Tourism -- 3 Travel Boycotts, Ethical Consumption and Destination Communities: Expanding the Morality of Neighbourliness -- 4 The Local Turn in Tourism: Place-based Realities, Dangers and Opportunities -- Part 2 Case Studies of Local Community (Dis)/(Re)/ Empowerment -- 5 Unheard Voices: Youth Activism for Social and Environmental Justice -- 6 Enhanced Food Security Through Localised Community Cryptocurrency: Experiences of a Costa Rican Tourism Town -- 7 An Ethnographical Study of Community Tourism: Seeking Alternative Tourism Options for Malta Through ‘Meet the Locals’ -- Part 3 Practitioners’ Views and Insights -- 8 Localhood -- 9 The Story of Cambodian Children’s Trust: Evolving Development Practice From ‘Doing For’ Communities To ‘Doing With’ Communities -- 10 The Neighbourhood Where History, Community, Tourism and Truth-Telling Meet: A Tourism Practitioner Case Study from the Greenwood Cultural Center of Tulsa, Oklahoma -- Part 4 Imagining New Futures -- 11 Convivial Tourism in Proximity -- 12 Towards a ‘More-than-Tourism’ Perspective for Localising Tourism -- 13 Reclaiming the City: Social Movements and the Local Impacts of the Global Tourism Industry -- 14 Conclusion: What is to be Done? -- Index
Summary: This book considers the vital importance of local communities to just and sustainable tourism futures. The contributors examine how tourism can be reoriented to better connect people, place and planet. This local turn starts by centring local communities at the heart of tourism and identifies ways to ensure local community rights and benefits.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Contributors -- Dedication -- Preface -- Foreword -- Local Roots -- Introduction -- Part 1 Theorising Local Communities in Tourism Anew -- 1 Place-based Governance in Tourism: Placing Local Communities at the Centre of Tourism -- 2 Circular Oikonomia, Posthumanism and Local Space to Socialise Tourism -- 3 Travel Boycotts, Ethical Consumption and Destination Communities: Expanding the Morality of Neighbourliness -- 4 The Local Turn in Tourism: Place-based Realities, Dangers and Opportunities -- Part 2 Case Studies of Local Community (Dis)/(Re)/ Empowerment -- 5 Unheard Voices: Youth Activism for Social and Environmental Justice -- 6 Enhanced Food Security Through Localised Community Cryptocurrency: Experiences of a Costa Rican Tourism Town -- 7 An Ethnographical Study of Community Tourism: Seeking Alternative Tourism Options for Malta Through ‘Meet the Locals’ -- Part 3 Practitioners’ Views and Insights -- 8 Localhood -- 9 The Story of Cambodian Children’s Trust: Evolving Development Practice From ‘Doing For’ Communities To ‘Doing With’ Communities -- 10 The Neighbourhood Where History, Community, Tourism and Truth-Telling Meet: A Tourism Practitioner Case Study from the Greenwood Cultural Center of Tulsa, Oklahoma -- Part 4 Imagining New Futures -- 11 Convivial Tourism in Proximity -- 12 Towards a ‘More-than-Tourism’ Perspective for Localising Tourism -- 13 Reclaiming the City: Social Movements and the Local Impacts of the Global Tourism Industry -- 14 Conclusion: What is to be Done? -- Index

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This book considers the vital importance of local communities to just and sustainable tourism futures. The contributors examine how tourism can be reoriented to better connect people, place and planet. This local turn starts by centring local communities at the heart of tourism and identifies ways to ensure local community rights and benefits.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023)

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