Slow tourism : experiences and mobilities /: experiences and mobilities. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Simone Fullagar, Kevin Markwell and Erica Wilson.
• Other Names: Fullagar, Simone; Markwell, Kevin; Wilson, Erica, 1974-
• Contents: Chapter 1: Starting Slow: Thinking Through Slow Mobilities and Experiences - Simone Fullagar, Kevin Markwell, Erica Wilson ; Positioning Slow Tourism ; Chapter 2: Speeding Up and Slowing Down: Pilgrimage and Slow Travel Through Time - Chris Howard ; Chapter 3: On the Periphery of Pleasure: Hedonics, Eudaimonics and Slow Travel - Kevin Moore ; Chapter 4: Slow’n Down the Town to Let Nature Grow: Ecotourism, Social Justice and Sustainability - Stephen Wearing, Michael Wearing and Matthew McDonald ; Slow Food and Sustainable Tourism ; Chapter 5: The Contradictions and Paradoxes of Slow Food: Environmental Change, Sustainability and the Conservation of Taste - C. Michael Hall ; Chapter 6: Eat Your Way Through Culture: Gastronomic Tourism as Performance and Bodily Experience - Fabio Parasecoli and Paulo de Abreu e Lima ; Chapter 7: “Make haste slowly”: Environmental Sustainability and Willing Workers on Organic Farms - Margo Lipman and Laurie Murphy ; Slow Mobilities ; Chapter 8: Gendered Cultures of Slow Travel: Women’s Cycle Touring as Alternative Hedonism - Simone Fullagar ; Chapter 9: Wandering Australia: Independent Travellers and Slow Journeys through Time and Space - Marg Tiyce and Erica Wilson ; Chapter 10: The Truth of the Body on Random Roads: The Resurgence of Hitchhiking and ‘Self-powered’ Practices - Michael O’Regan ; Chapter 11: ‘If you’re making waves then you have to slow down’: Slow Tourism and Canals - Julia Fallon ; Slow Tourism Places ; Chapter 12: Travellin’ Around on Yukon Time in Canada’s North - Suzanne de la Barre ; Chapter 13: ‘Fast Japan, Slow Japan’: Shifting to Slow Tourism as a Rural Regeneration Tool in Japan - Meiko Murayama and Gavin Parker ; Chapter 14: Tribe Tourism: A Case Study of the Tribewanted Project on Vorovoro, Fiji - Dawn Gibson, Stephen Pratt & Apisalome Movono ; Chapter 15: Slow Tourism Initiatives: An Exploratory Study of Dutch Lifestyle Entrepreneurs in France - Esther Groenendaal ; Chapter 16: Slow Travel and Indian Culture: Philosophical and Practical Aspects - Sagar Singh; Chapter 17: Reconceptualising Slow Travel and Tourism - Kevin Markwell, Simone Fullagar and Erica Wilson
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Channel View Publications
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (256 pages)
• Subjects: 306.4819; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General; Sociology; GEOGRAPHY; Tourism -- Social aspects; Tourists -- Psychology; Holiday stress
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781845412838; 1845412834
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