Challenges in Tourism Research [electronic resource]

• 作者： Singh, Tej Vir.
• 其他題名：
  • Aspects of Tourism
• 出版： Clevedon : Channel View Publications
• 版本：1st ed.
• 叢書名： Aspects of Tourism ;v.70
• 主題： Tourism -- Research. , Electronic books.
• ISBN： 9781845415341 (ebook)
• FIND@SFXID: CGU
• 資料類型: 電子書
• 內容註: Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1 I Am a Traveller, You Are a Visitor, They Are Tourists But Who Are Post-Tourists? -- Context -- 1.1 Are We All Post-Tourists Now? Tourist Categories, Identities and Post-Modernity -- 1.2 Those People Were a Kind of Solution: Post-Tourists and Grand Narratives -- 1.3 Exploring the Post-Tourist: Guidelines for Future Research -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 2 Is Tourist a Secular Pilgrim or a Hedonist in Search of Pleasure? -- Context -- 2.1 The Secular Pilgrim: Are We Flogging a Dead Metaphor? 2.2 Whiskey and Pilgrimage: Clearing Up Commonalities -- 2.3 To Be or Not to Be a Tourist: The Role of Concept-Metaphors in Tourism Studies -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 3 Do Tourists Travel for the Discovery of 'Self' or to Search for the 'Other'? -- Context -- 3.1 A Journey in Search of 'Self' and the 'Other' -- 3.2 The Quest for the 'Self' or the 'Other' as Motivation for Travel: Simple Choice or Spoiled for Choice? -- 3.3 Tourism: The Quest for the Selfish -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 4 Is Volunteerism a New Avatar of Travelism? -- Context 4.1 Volunteer Tourism: Return of the Traveller -- 4.2 Reciprocity in Volunteer Tourism and Travelism -- 4.3 Volunteer Tourism: Insights from the Past, Concerns about the Present and Questions for the Future -- 4.4 Volunteer Tourism: A New Narrative Between Hosts and Guest -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 5 Tourism's Invulnerability: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics -- Context -- 5.1 Is Tourism Vulnerable? -- 5.2 Tourism and Vulnerability: A Case of Pessimism? -- 5.3 Is Tourism Vulnerable? An Ambiguous Question -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 6 Vanishing Peripheries: Does Tourism Consume Places? Context -- 6.1 Elaborating Core-Periphery Relations in Tourism -- 6.2 Vanishing Peripheries and Shifting Centres: Structural Certainties or Negotiated Ambiguities? -- 6.3 Moving in From the Margins: Experiential Consumption and the Pleasure Core -- 6.4 Tourism in Peripheries -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 7 Tourism is More Sinned Against than Sinning -- Context -- 7.1 In Defence of Tourism -- 7.2 Original Sin: A Lack of (Tourism) Knowledge -- 7.3 Tourism: The Good, the Bad and the Sinner? -- 7.4 In Defence of Tourism: A Reassessment -- Concluding Remarks Chapter 8 Is the Concept of Sustainability Utopian? Ideally Perfect but Hard to Practice -- Context -- 8.1 Sustainable Tourism: Guiding Fiction, Social Trap or Path to Resilience? -- 8.2 Sustainable Tourism: The Undefinable and Unachievable Pursued by the Unrealistic? -- 8.3 Tourism and the Sustainability of Human Societies -- 8.4 Wither Sustainable Tourism? But First a Good Hard Look in the Mirror -- 8.5 Sustainable Tourism: Milestone or Millstone? -- Concluding Remarks -- Chapter 9 What is Wrong with the Concept of Carrying Capacity? -- Context -- 9.1 Tourism Capacity Concepts 9.2 A Twist in the Tale of Carrying Capacity: Towards a Formula for Sustainable Tourism? Description based upon print version of record.
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• 摘要註: In this volume leading experts from different disciplines and diverse geographic regions discuss fundamental, often controversial topics in the field of tourism studies. The book attempts to understand, identify and analyse some of the perennial problems and challenges encountered by tourism researchers. The debates include topics such as the concept of the 'tourist', the long-term sustainability of tourism development, the growth of volunteer tourism and the vulnerability of tourism. Bringing together the collective wisdom of 37 renowned tourism scholars in a unique format, this is an important text for undergraduate and postgraduate students, tourism researchers and industry professionals.
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