The Local Turn in Tourism

Empowering Communities
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-84541-878-6
Verlag: Channel View Publications

Buch, Englisch, 286 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 497 g

In a world that is subject to rapid change and cascading crises this book considers the vital importance of local communities to grounded, just and sustainable tourism futures. Embracing local tourism as relational, the contributors examine how tourism can be reoriented to better connect people, place and planet. This local turn starts by centring local communities at the heart of tourism and identifies ways to ensure local community rights and benefits in tourism. Presenting concepts, case studies and practitioner insights, the chapters explore what putting locals first might mean; the constraints of markets and the promise of alternatives; ‘tours’ and ‘turns’ offering possibilities for circles, cycles and connections; approaches for democratising tourism; and building an ethos of relatedness through a relational imperative to face the future together.

The introduction and Chapter 1 are free to download as open access publications under a CC BY NC ND licence. You can access them here:

Freya Higgins-Desbiolles and Bobbie Chew Bigby: Introduction: Embracing the Local Turn in Tourism to Empower Communities: https://zenodo.org/record/7234710#.Y1Kd8nbMLcs

Chapter 1. Bobbie Chew Bigby, Joseph Edgar and Freya Higgins-Desbiolles: Place-based Governance in Tourism: Placing Local Communities at the Centre of Tourism: https://zenodo.org/record/7234717#.Y1KpinbMLcs

Autoren/Hrsg.

Higgins-Desbiolles, Freya

Bigby, Bobbie Chew

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Soziale Fragen & Probleme
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Tourismuswirtschaft, Gastgewerbe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Figures and Tables

Contributors

Dedication

Preface

Helena Norberg-Hodge: Foreword

vesper tjukonai: Local Roots

Freya Higgins-Desbiolles and Bobbie Chew Bigby: Introduction

This chapter is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence and can be downloaded for free at: https://zenodo.org/record/7234710#.Y1Kd8nbMLcs

Part 1: Theorising Local Communities in Tourism Anew

Chapter 1. Bobbie Chew Bigby, Joseph Edgar and Freya Higgins-Desbiolles: Place-based Governance in Tourism: Placing Local Communities at the Centre of Tourism

This chapter is open access under a CC BY NC ND licence and can be downloaded for free at: https://zenodo.org/record/7234717#.Y1KpinbMLcs

Chapter 2. Lucia Tomassini and Elena Cavagnaro: Circular Oikonomia, Posthumanism and Local Space to Socialise Tourism

Chapter 3. Siamak Seyfi and C. Michael Hall: Travel Boycotts, Ethical Consumption and Destination Communities: Expanding the Morality of Neighbourliness

Chapter 4. Can-Seng Ooi: The Local Turn in Tourism: Place-based Realities, Dangers and Opportunities

Part 2: Case Studies of Local Community (Dis)/(Re)/Empowerment

Chapter 5. Antonia Canosa: Unheard Voices: Youth Activism for Social and Environmental Justice

Chapter 6. Mary Little: Enhanced Food Security Through Localised Community Cryptocurrency: Experiences of a Costa Rican Tourism Town

Chapter 7. Andrew Jones and Julian Zarb: An Ethnographical Study of Community Tourism: Seeking Alternative Tourism Options for Malta through 'Meet the Locals'

Part 3: Practitioners’ Views and Insights

Chapter 8. Signe Jungersted: Localhood

Case Study: Transforming Relations Between DMOs and Communities

Chapter 9. Tara Winkler: The Story of Cambodian Children’s Trust: Evolving Development Practice From ‘Doing For’ Communities To ‘Doing With’ Communities

Case Study in Practice of Working with Communities

Chapter 10. Bobbie Chew Bigby and Michelle Brown-Burdex: The Neighbourhood where History, Community, Tourism and Truth-Telling Meet: A Tourism Practitioner Case Study from the Greenwood Cultural Center of Tulsa, Oklahoma

Part 4: Imagining New Futures

Chapter 11. Nora Müller, Robert Fletcher and Macià Blázquez-Salom: Convivial Tourism in Proximity

Chapter 12. Phoebe Everingham and Sinéad Francis-Coan: Towards a 'More-than-Tourism' Perspective for Localising Tourism

Chapter 13. Alexander Araya López: Reclaiming the City: Social Movements and the Local Impacts of the Global Tourism Industry

Chapter 14. Freya Higgins-Desbiolles and Bobbie Chew Bigby: Conclusion: What is to be Done?

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Bigby, Bobbie Chew
Bobbie Chew Bigby is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Waterloo (Canada), an Adjunct Research Fellow at Nulungu Research Institute (Australia) and a Lecturer at NYU Tulsa (United States). Bobbie’s research explores the ways that tourism can be a tool for cultural resurgence among Indigenous and post-conflict communities. Bobbie looks beyond tourism’s economic potential alone and seeks to understand how tourism can help people (re)connect with culture, community and Country (living lands and waters).

Higgins-Desbiolles, Freya
Freya Higgins-Desbiolles is Adjunct, Business Unit, Adelaide University, Australia and Adjunct Professor, Taylor's University, Malaysia.

Freya Higgins-Desbiolles is an Adjunct Senior Lecturer at UniSA Business, University of South Australia. Her research interests are justice, human rights and sustainability in tourism, and her specific research focus includes tourism politics, Indigenous tourism and tourism planning.

Bobbie Chew Bigby is a PhD scholar at the Nulungu Research Institute in Broome, University of Notre Dame Australia. Her research interests include Indigenous-led tourism, Indigenous resurgence, culture and language revitalisation and peace studies.