1866 : a woman in India -- A certain kind of tourism -- Cars, planes, and resorts -- The alternative tourism boomerang -- The age of voluntourism -- Colonial pathologies -- Faith, purpose, and mission -- The development conundrum -- Playing doctor -- Teaching children -- Orphana…
"Ours to Explore investigates voluntourism's past and present, uncovering the complicated roots of the modern global phenomenon"--
Ours to Explore investigates voluntourism's past and present, uncovering the complicated roots of the modern global phenomenon.
"This book provides an interdisciplinary discussion of animals as a source of food within the context of tourism. It focuses on a range of ethical issues associated with the production and consumption of animal foods, highlighting the different ways in which animals are valued a…
Slum tourism: poverty, power and ethics
by Frenzel, Fabian, Koens, Ko, Steinbrink, Malte
Slum tourism is a globalizing trend and a controversial form of tourism. Impoverished urban areas have always enticed the popular imagination, considered to be places of ‘otherness’, ‘moral decay’, ‘deviant liberty’ or ‘authenticity’. ‘Slumming’ has a long tradition in the Glo…
Slum tourism is a globalizing trend and a controversial form of tourism. Impoverished urban areas have always enticed the popular imagination, considered to be places of 'otherness', 'moral decay', 'deviant liberty' or 'authenticity'. 'Slumming' has a long tradition in the Globa…
This edited work deals solely and specifically with the global phenomenon slum tourism from interdisciplinary perspectives. Building on research by prolific researchers the book contributes a comprehensive and unique overview of current empirical, practical and theoretical knowl…
Slum tourism is a globalizing trend and a controversial form of tourism. Impoverished urban areas have always enticed the popular imagination, considered to be places of 'otherness', 'moral decay', 'deviant liberty' or 'authenticity'. 'Slumming' has a long tradition in the Globa…
Neither the tourism industry nor the tourist has responded convincingly to calls for more responsibility in tourism. Ethical consumption places pressure on travellers to manage a large number of decisions at a time when hedonic motivations threaten to override other priorities. …