Transformational tourism: host perspectives

"Transformational tourism is about a change in thinking and behaviour through travel and tourism. In contrast to the first volume which focuses on tourist perspectives, this second volume focuses on host community perspectives of transformational tourism. This volume shows that through the tourist-host relationships, interacting with other people and learning about other places, host communities can critically reflect on life, and shift the course of their knowledge and the meaning perspective. By experiencing tourism and tourists, host communities can generate new thoughts and ideas, create new meanings, change their social, cultural, political and environmental beliefs and, most importantly, move towards new values of openness, tolerance, sharing, empathy, compassion, justice and peace, unity and oneness, and service to others. This volume contains 14 chapters. Most of the chapters concentrate on a particular type of host experience and report on research studies conducted in various parts of the world. The volume is aimed at tourism students and academics in business and non-business schools. Studies presented in this volume are also likely to appeal to tourism businesses because they show what tourism products should be developed in order for the host communities to grow and the industry to be successful. In addition, this volume is aimed at students, academics and professionals from other disciplines that deal with human development and behavioural changes."--[Résumé de l'éditeur].

Reflections on Life Purpose / Yvette Reisinger -- Personal Transformation and Travel and Tourism / Yvette Reisinger -- Destination under Discipline : Foucault and the Transformation of Place Makers / Keith Hollinshead, Milka Ivanova and Kellee Caton -- The Normalization of Places and Spaces : Tourism and Transformation -- A Glossary on the Eye-of-Authority / Keith Hollinshead, Kellee Caton and Milka Ivanova -- Where is the Host? An Analytic Autoethnographic Inquiry in Transformational Tourism / Sagar Singh -- The Political and Social Transformation of Roma and Jewish Communities through Tourism in Budapest / Melanie Smith and Anita Zatori -- Tourism, Transformation and Urban Ethnic Communities : The Case of Matonge, Brussels/ Anya Diekmann and Isabelle Cloquet -- The Travelling Favela : Cosmopolitanisms from Above and from Below / Bianca Freire-Medeiros and Gabriel Cohen -- Transforming Nature's Value -- Cultural Change Comes from Below : Rural Communities, the "Othered" and Host Capacity Building / Stephen Schweinsberg, Stephen Wearing and Michael Wearing -- Transformation of Local Lives through Volunteer Tourism : Peruvian and Thai Case Studies / Elisa Burrai and Jose Ignacio de…