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Critical Debates in Tourism / ed. by Tej Vir Singh.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Aspects of Tourism ; 57Publisher: Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Channel View Publications, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: 1 online resource (416 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781845413422
  • 9781845413439
Subject(s): LOC classification:
  • G155.A1 C743 2012
  • G155.A1 C743 2012
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  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Mass Tourism and Sustainability: Can the Two Meet? -- Chapter 2. Consumerism and Tourism: Are They Cousins? -- Chapter 3. Is Small Tourism Beautiful? -- Chapter 4. Does Community Participation Empower Local People? -- Chapter 5. Does Tourism Reduce Poverty? -- Chapter 6. Volunteer Tourism: Is it Benign? -- Chapter 7. Tourism and Welfare: Seeking Symbiosis -- Chapter 8. Tourism Education: Quo Vadis? -- Chapter 9. Post-Colonialism: Academic Responsibility? -- Chapter 10. The Dilemma of Authenticity and Inauthenticity -- Chapter 11. Heritage Tourism: Heritage Tourists -- Chapter 12. Nature-Based Tourism: There's a Lot in a Name -- Chapter 13. Tourism and Climate Change: A Need for Critical Analysis -- Chapter 14. Slow Tourism: Back to Bullock Cart Days! -- Conclusion -- Index
Summary: In this volume tourism experts collectively discuss and debate some intriguing questions that the tourism industry poses, such as the relevance of mass tourism, the dilemma of authenticity, whether small tourism is beautiful, whether volunteer tourism is benign, whether tourism contributes to climate change, as well as many others. The book brings together the expertise of 35 renowned international scholars of tourism to examine these perplexing issues. Multidisciplinary in its content, it touches upon anthropology, sociology, geography, climatology, biosciences, and planning and development aspects of tourism. The book provides a dialogue for an academic discussion which challenges research conservatism and stereotypes in tourism studies. It will encourage scholars to test the consistency of critical notions whose heuristic value is often taken for granted. The book will benefit graduates, research scholars and those involved in organizing the industry sustainably.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Mass Tourism and Sustainability: Can the Two Meet? -- Chapter 2. Consumerism and Tourism: Are They Cousins? -- Chapter 3. Is Small Tourism Beautiful? -- Chapter 4. Does Community Participation Empower Local People? -- Chapter 5. Does Tourism Reduce Poverty? -- Chapter 6. Volunteer Tourism: Is it Benign? -- Chapter 7. Tourism and Welfare: Seeking Symbiosis -- Chapter 8. Tourism Education: Quo Vadis? -- Chapter 9. Post-Colonialism: Academic Responsibility? -- Chapter 10. The Dilemma of Authenticity and Inauthenticity -- Chapter 11. Heritage Tourism: Heritage Tourists -- Chapter 12. Nature-Based Tourism: There's a Lot in a Name -- Chapter 13. Tourism and Climate Change: A Need for Critical Analysis -- Chapter 14. Slow Tourism: Back to Bullock Cart Days! -- Conclusion -- Index

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In this volume tourism experts collectively discuss and debate some intriguing questions that the tourism industry poses, such as the relevance of mass tourism, the dilemma of authenticity, whether small tourism is beautiful, whether volunteer tourism is benign, whether tourism contributes to climate change, as well as many others. The book brings together the expertise of 35 renowned international scholars of tourism to examine these perplexing issues. Multidisciplinary in its content, it touches upon anthropology, sociology, geography, climatology, biosciences, and planning and development aspects of tourism. The book provides a dialogue for an academic discussion which challenges research conservatism and stereotypes in tourism studies. It will encourage scholars to test the consistency of critical notions whose heuristic value is often taken for granted. The book will benefit graduates, research scholars and those involved in organizing the industry sustainably.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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