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Book SynopsisIn 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. 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
Trade ReviewThis revolutionary text provokes us to a critical and necessarily urgent refocusing of tourism that foregrounds the local in all its forms (humans, more than humans, and the ecology). Replete with counter-narratives, alternative visions, and practical actions, this book is a triumph in its unapologetic advocacy for tourism futures that are more just and inclusive. * Donna Chambers, University of Sunderland, UK *
This timely book provides a tangible way forward for transforming tourism at a time when both global and local pressures unequivocally signal that the pre-COVID-19 tourism model has failed. It points to a pathway where locals’ love and care for place become the foundations of sustainable tourism. This book won’t fail to inspire readers of all types – academia, policymakers, industry, non-profits and the wider public. * Susanne Becken, Griffith University, Australia *
Rethinking and reforming tourism through a local, community-centered turn is long overdue, but how do we go about it in practice? In this innovative collection featuring scholars and practitioners from around the world, Higgins-Desbiolles and Bigby offer us a detailed agenda for transforming the way we conduct tourism. * Julian Agyeman, Tufts University, USA *
Table of ContentsFigures and Tables
Contributors
Dedication
Preface
Helena Norberg-Hodge: Foreword
vesper tjukonai: Local Roots
Freya Higgins-Desbiolles and Bobbie Chew Bigby: Introduction
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
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
