Experiencing 'moments of home' through diaspora tourism and travel. Issue 5 (19th October 2016)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Etemaddar, Mitra; Duncan, Tara; Tucker, Hazel
• Is Part Of: Tourism geographies. Volume 18:Issue 5(2016)
• Page Start: 503
• Page End: 519
• Publication Date: 2016-10-19
• Subjects: Diaspora tourism -- home -- Iranian diaspora -- New Zealand -- moments of home -- VFR; 离散旅游 -- 家 -- 伊朗离散社区 -- 新西兰 -- 家的瞬间 -- 探亲访友旅游; Travel -- Periodicals; Ecotourism -- Periodicals; 910
• DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2016.1220973
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1461-6688

Abstract

ABSTRACT: Whilst the relationship between diasporic communities and tourism has been explored in the tourism literature, it has generally been underpinned by a limited consideration of the notion of home. Based on ethnographic research with an Iranian diasporic community in the South Island of New Zealand, this paper explores the different ways in which this diaspora community engages with travel and tourism to (re)produce and taste 'home'. It is argued that the notion of home should be viewed as incomplete, contingent and fleeting, rather than fixed and permanent, specifically within the tourism context. The concept of 'moments of home' is presented to illustrate how diasporic communities use travel and tourism to find, maintain or make home when away from their original homeland. Thus, 'moments of home' is proposed in order to allow a more complex and dynamic understanding of the relationship between diaspora tourism and home.