Tourism Paradoxes

Contradictions, Controversies and Challenges
Erscheinungsjahr 2021
ISBN: 978-1-84541-811-3
Verlag: Channel View Publications

Buch, Englisch, 175 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 295 g

At a time when COVID-19 is transforming the tourism industry, this book presents a collection of some of the many contemporary contradictions and inconsistencies apparent in tourism contexts and tourism studies. Increasingly, tourism is regarded as an agent of social and cultural change, in ways which inevitably throw up new and inescapable paradoxes. The chapters draw attention to paradoxes (such as Anglo-Western-centrism/Non-Western imperatives, continued colonisation/decolonisation, political apparatus/people’s empowerment, global standards/local dynamics) and their prominence in the tourism field as well as in other disciplines. The volume offers a reconsideration of what may be needed, conceptually and methodologically, in order to equip researchers and practitioners in tourism and related social science fields to better interpret and manage the future of tourism.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Çakmak, Erdinç

Tucker, Hazel

Hollinshead, Keith

Fachgebiete

• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Tourismuswirtschaft, Gastgewerbe
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures and Tables

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword by Erik Cohen

Chapter 1. Erdinç Çakmak, Hazel Tucker and Keith Hollinshead: Introduction: Tourism Paradoxes – Contradictions, Controversies and Challenges

Chapter 2. Evi Eftychiou: The Paradox of Modernity: Power, Identity and Tourism in Rural Cyprus

Chapter 3. Emmanuelle Peyvel: Go West! Overcoming the Paradoxes of Kinh Tourism in Vietnamese Mountains: A Postcolonial Geography

Chapter 4. Keith Kay Hin Tan and Paolo Mura: The 'Logical Paradox' of Preservation via Change: The Touristic Potential of Malaysia's Catholic Mission Schools

Chapter 5. Nan Chen, Kevin Burns and Jing Wang: Empowering Package Tour Travellers by Disempowering Tourism Operators? – Assessing the Effectiveness of the Tourism Law of China

Chapter 6. Man Tat Cheng: Cross-cultural Encounter: Sustaining Racial Prejudice or Prompting Reflection?

Chapter 7. Rose de Vrieze-McBean: Contemporary Polemics of Chinese Outbound Tourism to Europe: Paradoxes, Inconsistencies and Contradictions

Chapter 8: Vincent Platenkamp: International Tourism Academia: A Paradoxical Challenge

Chapter 9. Keith Hollinshead, Rukeya Suleman, Sisi Wang, Bipi Nair and Alfred Vellah: The Call for ‘Dynamic Genesis’ (after Deleuze) in Tourism Studies

Chapter 10. Erdinç Çakmak, Keith Hollinshead and Hazel Tucker: Afterword: Reflections on Paradoxes in Understanding, Culture, Mobility, and Tourism

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Çakmak, Erdinç
Erdinç Çakmak is Senior Fellow at the Academy of Tourism, Breda University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. His research interests are informal economies, tourism sociology, power relations in tourism and conflict-ridden destinations.

Tucker, Hazel
Hazel Tucker is a Professor in the Department of Tourism, University of Otago, New Zealand. Her research interests include the advancement of critical interpretative methodologies and theory regarding tourism’s influence on sociocultural identities, relationships and change.

Hollinshead, Keith
Keith Hollinshead is an Emeritus Professor in Public Culture, University of Bedfordshire, UK. His research interests include soft science and advanced qualitative research methods, transdisciplinary studies, public culture and cultural heritage.

Erdinç Çakmak is a Senior Fellow at the Academy of Tourism, Breda University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. His research interests include informal economies, tourism sociology, power relations in tourism, conflict-ridden destinations.

Hazel Tucker is a Professor in the Department of Tourism, University of Otago, New Zealand. Her research interests include the advancement of critical interpretative methodologies and theory regarding tourism’s influence on sociocultural identities, relationships and change.

Keith Hollinshead is a Distinguished Professor for the International Tourism Studies Association. His research interests include soft science and advanced qualitative research methods, transdisciplinary studies, public culture and cultural heritage.