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Book SynopsisThe tourism industry and the tourists it serves can exert major influences on host communities at a number of levels. On the one hand, tourism can preserve cultures, resurrect forgotten traditions and prevent cultural stagnation. On the other hand, tourism can challenge existing values, social norms, traditions and behaviour, and this can lead to situations of conflict. In extreme cases, resistance or violence can be the result. For the majority of the time, it would seem that as long as tourism delivers the economic and social benefits it frequently promises, problems are often tolerated and some measure of conflict is accepted. However, whenever tourism brings cultures together, whether freely or forced, a range of complex issues are invoked such as the nature of cultural identity, social and economic power relations, legal and moral rights and management responsibilities. This book examines the changing relationships between tourism and host cultures and explores the reasons why and
Table of Contents1: Cultural Conflicts in Tourism: Inevitability and Inequality, M Robinson 2: Indigenous Tourism: Reclaiming Knowledge, Culture and Intellectual Property in Australia, E Whittaker, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 3: Myth and the Discourse of Texas: Heritage Tourism and the Suppression of Instinctual Life, K Hollinshead, Texas A & M University, Texas, USA 4: Managing the Cultural Impacts of Religious Tourism in the Himalayas, Tibet and Nepal, M Shackley, The Nottingham Trent University, UK 5: Developing Cultural Tourism in Greece, E Karpodini-Dimitriadi, Institute of Cultural Studies of Europe and the Mediterranean, Athens, Greece 6: Tourism Development in De-industrializing Centres of the UK: Change, Culture and Conflict, M Robinson 7: Trading Culture: Tourism and Tourist Art in Pisac, Peru, J Henrici, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA 8: Social and Cultural Impacts of Tourism Policy in Tunisia, S Bleasdale and S Tapsell, University of Middlesex, Enfield, UK 9: Cornishness, Conflict and Tourism Development, M Ireland, The University College of St Mark & St John, Plymouth, UK 10: Some Dimensions of Maori Involvement in Tourism, C Ryan, Northern Territory University, Darwin, Australia 11: Tourism and Culture in Spain: A Case of Minimal Conflict?, M Barke, University of Northumbria, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK 12: Partnerships Involving Indigenous Peoples in the Management of Heritage Sites, G Wall, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 13: Tourism and Cultures: Consensus in the Making?, P Boniface
