Transformational tourism: host perspectives

Transformational Tourism deals with the important issue of how travel and tourism can change human behaviour and have a positive impact on the world. The book focuses on human development in a world dominated by post-9/{u200B}11 security and political challenges, economic and financial collapses, as well as environmental threats; it identifies various types of tourism that can transform human beings, such as educational, volunteer, survival, community-based, eco, farm, extreme, religious, spiritual, wellness, and mission tourism. Part I: Initial Reflections; 1 Reflections on Life Purpose; 2 Personal Transformation and Travel and Tourism; Part II: Foucault and Transformation; 3 Destination under Discipline: Foucault and the Transformation of Place Makers; 4 The Normalization of Places and Spaces: Tourism and Transformation - A Glossary on the Eye-of-Authority; Part III: Where is the Host?; 5 Where is the Host? An Analytic Autoethnographic Inquiry in Transformational Tourism; Part IV: Transformation of Different Local Communities; 6 The Political and Social Transformation of Roma and Jewish Communities through Tourism in Budapest; 7 Tourism, Transformation and Urban Ethnic Communities: The Case of Matonge, Brussels; 8 The Travelling Favela: Cosmopolitanisms from Above and from Below; 9 Transforming Nature's Value - Cultural Change Comes from Below: Rural Communities, the 'Othered' and Host Capacity Building; Part V: Transformation through Different Types of Tourism; 10 Transformation of Local Lives through Volunteer Tourism: Peruvian and Thai Case Studies; 11 The Impact of Extreme Sports on Host Communities' Psychological Growth and Development; 12 Transformation and the WWOOF Exchange: The Host Experience; Part VI: Problems and Solutions; 13 Ethnic Conflict: Is Heritage Tourism Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem?; 14 Developing a Tourism Poverty Reduction Strategy.

Reflections on life purpose -- Personal transformation and travel and tourism -- Destination under discipline: Foucault and the transformation of place makers -- The normalization of places and spaces: tourism and transformation -- a glossary on the eye-of-authority -- Where is the host? An analytic autoethnographic inquiry in transformational tourism -- The political and social transformation of Roma and Jewish communities through tourism in Budapest -- Tourism, transformation and urban ethnic communities: the case of Matonge, Brussels -- The travelling favela: cosmopolitanisms from above and from below -- Transforming nature's value -- cultural change comes from below: rural communities, the 'othered' and host capacity building -- Transformation of local lives through volunteer tourism: Peruvian and Thai case studies -- The impact of extreme sports on host communities' psychological growth and development -- Transformation and the WWOOF exchange: the host experience -- Ethnic conflict: is heritage tourism part of the solution or part of the problem? -- Developing a tourism poverty reduction strategy.