Critical debates in tourism. (2012)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Tej Vir Singh.
• Other Names: Singh, Tejvir, 1930-
• Contents: Preface Introduction – Tej Vir Singh 1. Mass Tourism and Sustainability: Can the Two Meet? 1.1 Towards Sustainable Mass Tourism: Paradigm Shift or Paradigm Nudge? – David Weaver 1.2 Is Mass Tourism Serious About Sustainability? – Ralf Buckley 1.3 Sustainable Mass Tourism: More Smudge than Nudge the Canard Continues – Brian Wheeller 1.4 Critical and Normative Responses to Sustainable Tourism – Bill Bramwell 2. Consumerism and Tourism: Are They Cousins? 2.1 Does Consumerism Necessarily Promote Bad Tourism? – Richard Sharpley 2.2 Consumerism, Tourism and Voluntary Simplicity: We all have to Consume, but do we really have to Travel so Much to be Happy? – C. Michael Hall 2.3 Not All Consumerism has Shady Side – Joan C. Henderson 3. Is Small Tourism Beautiful? 3.1 Tourism: Is Small Beautiful? – David Harrison 3.2 Small can be Beautiful, but big can be Beautiful too – and Complementary: Towards Mass Tourism/Alternative Tourism Synergy – David Weaver 3.3 Small is Beautiful: Size can be Important – Richard Butler 4. Does Community Participation Empower Local People? 4.1 The Mantra of ‘Community Participation’ in Context – Jim Butcher 4.2 Community-based Tourism as Strategic Dead-end – David Weaver 4.3 Community Participation – In Need of a Fresh Perspective – Shalini Singh 5. Does Tourism Reduce Poverty? 5.1 Pro-Poor Tourism: Is There Value Beyond the Rhetoric? – Regina Scheyvens 5.2 Pro-Poor Tourism: Is There Actually Much Rhetoric? And, if so, Whose? – Dorothea Meyer 5.3 Pro-poor Tourism: Is there Value Beyond ‘Whose’ Rhetoric? – David Harrison 5.4 Pro-Poor Tourism: Climate Change and Sustainable Development – Paul Peeters 6. Volunteer Tourism: Is it Benign? 6.1 Volunteer Tourism: As Good as it Seems – Daniel Guttentag 6.2 Volunteer Tourism: May not be as Good as it Seems – Jim Butcher 6.3 Volunteer Tourism: Looking Forward – Eliza Raymond 7. Tourism and Welfare: Seeking Symbiosis 7.1 The Tourism Industry’s Welfare Responsibilities: An Adequate Response? – Derek Hall and Frances Brown 7.2 ‘Ethical’ Travel and Well-being: Reposing the Issue – Jim Butcher 7.3 Tourism Ethics Needs More Than a Surface Approach – David Fennell 7.4 Tourism and Welfare: A Good Idea and a Pious Hope – Carson. L. Jenkins 8. Tourism Education: Quo Vadis? 8.1 Contemporary Tourism Education: Notes from the Frontline – Chris Cooper 8.2 The Cost of Everything and the Value of Nothing – Brian Wheeller 8.3 Innovate or Deteriorate – Moving Tourism Education into the 21st Century – Lisa Ruhanen 9. Post Colonialism: Academic Responsibility? 9.1 ‘Post-colonialism’, Responsibility and Tourism Academics: Where’s the Connection – Derek Hall and Frances Brown 9.2 Academic Capitalism, Academic Responsibility and Tourism Academics: or, the Silence of the Lambs? – C. Michael Hall 9.3 Towards an Ethics of Responsibility in Tourism Education – Erik Cohen 10. The Dilemma of Authenticity and In-authenticity 10.1 ‘Authenticity’ in Tourism Studies: Aprés la Lutte – Erik Cohen 10.2 Staged Authenticity: A Grande idée? – Kjell Olsen 10.3 Persisting with Authenticity: Gleaning Contemporary Insights for Future Tourism Studies – Philip L. Pearce 11. Heritage Tourism: Heritage Tourists 11.1 Do Tourists Destroy the Heritage They Have Come to Experience? – Gregory J. Ashworth 11.2 Heritage Tourists: Responsible, (f)or What? – Brian Wheeller 11.3 Tourists and Heritage: All Things Must Come to Pass – C. Michael Hall 12. Nature Based Tourism: There is Lot in the Name 12.1 What's in a Name? Conceptualizing Natural Resource-Based Tourism – David Fennell 12.2 Nature-Based Tourism in Breadth and Depth – Ralf Buckley and Alexandra Coghlan 12.3 Ecotourism and Nature-Based Tourism: What’s Beyond the Names and Labels? – Betty Weiler 13. Tourism and Climate Change: A Need for Critical Analysis 13.1 Tourism and Climate Change: Knowledge Gaps and Issues – C. Michael Hall 13.2 Climate Change: Beyond the Hype – Susanne Becken 13.3 Climate Change: Tourism Destination Dynamics – Ralf Buckley 13.4 Climate Change and Tourism: Time for Critical Reflection – Daniel Scott 14. Slow Tourism: Back to Bullock Cart Days! 14.1 Are Slow Travel and Slow Tourism Misfits, Compadres or Different Genres? – Dennis Conway and Benjamin F Timms 14.2 Advocating and Implementing Slow Tourism – Alison Caffyn 14.3 Questioning Slow As Sustainable – Rachel Dodds Conclusion – Tej Vir Singh
• Publisher Details: Bristol : Channel View Publications
• Publication Date: 2012
• Extent: 1 online resource (416 pages)
• Subjects: 338.4791; SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Geography; Tourism -- Social aspects; Tourism -- Environmental aspects; SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / General; GEOGRAPHY; Anthropology
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781845413446
• Related ISBNs: 184541344X
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