Socialising Tourism
Rethinking Tourism for Social and Ecological Justice
- 312 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
Socialising Tourism
Rethinking Tourism for Social and Ecological Justice
About This Book
Once touted as the world's largest industry and also a tool for fostering peace and global understanding, tourism has certainly been a major force shaping our world. The recent COVID-19 crisis has led to calls to transform tourism and reset it along more ethical and sustainable lines. It was in this context that calls to "socialise tourism" emerged (Higgins-Desbiolles, 2020). This edited volume builds on this work by employing the term Socialising Tourism as a broad conceptual focal point and guiding term for industry, activists and academics to rethink tourism for social and ecological justice.
Socialising Tourism means reorienting travel and tourism based on the rights, interests, and safeguarding of traditional ecological and cultural knowledges of local peoples, communities and living landscapes. This means making tourism work for the public good and taking seriously the idea of putting the social and ecological before profit and growth as the world re-emerges from the COVID-19 pandemic. This is an essential first step for tourism to be made accountable to the limits of the planet. Concepts discussed include Indigenous culture, toxic tourism, a "theory of care", dismantling whiteness, decolonial tourism and animal oppression, among others, all in the context of a post-COVID-19 world.
This will be essential reading for all upper-level students, academics and policymakers in the field of tourism. The Introduction of this book is freely available as a downloadable Open Access PDF under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license available at http://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003164616
Frequently asked questions
Index
- Aboriginal community 3
- land protection 11
- presentations of culture 28
- Welcome to Country/Acknowledgement of Country protocols 16, 31–6
- academia: inequalities 137, 139
- holistic knowledge production 140–1
- accommodation(s): Barcelona 235
- Tanzania 79–80, 86
- accumulation, capitalist 94
- class 102
- obstacle to radical change 100
- through dispossession 236
- activism: alliances 17
- care-centred 59, 65, 69
- citizen coalitions 102
- creative 180, 186–7
- Kanaka ‘Ōiwi activists 150
- limits of 154
- Okinawan peace 153
- social 16
- social justice 147
- affirmative ethics: for a post-humanist tourism 202–3
- affirmative ethos: in post-disaster communities 176
- philosophy 179
- Africa 125
- employment figures 97–8
- family connections 79
- inequalities and vulnerabilities 95
- pandemic crisis exploited in 99
- tourism revenues more resilient to shocks 95–6
- agency 16, 18, 33, 41–2, 51–3, 55
- alternative(s): business models 67
- creative 148
- economic use 94–5
- futures 147
- knowledges 131
- tourism practices 222–3
- to unfettered growth 64
- values 103
- “woke” tourism 145
- animal(s) 184
- citizenry 200
- community-based advocacy for 206
- correlating injustices 195
- rights 197, 199, 205
- service to ecosystems 203
- Aotearoa New Zealand 11, 26, 31–5, 152
- Air New Zealand 65;
- Arendt, H. 110, 122, 125
- austerity: 2008 EU 96
- 15M protests 235
- A...
Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- Dedication
- Table of Contents
- List of figures
- List of contributors
- Foreword: when will change come?
- Preface
- Introduction: socialising tourism: reimagining tourism's purpose
- Section I Socialising tourism as rethinking social relations
- Section II Socialising tourism as rethinking ideology
- Section III Socialising tourism to build better collective futures
- Conclusion: socialising tourism as an avenue for critical thought and justice: ways forward
- Index