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Book SynopsisTransformational Tourism deals with the important issue of how travel and tourism can change human behaviour and have a positive impact on the world. The book focuses on human development in a world dominated by post-9/11 security and political challenges, economic and financial collapses, as well as environmental threats; it identifies various types of tourism that can transform human beings, such as educational, volunteer, survival, community-based, eco, farm, extreme, religious, spiritual, wellness, and mission tourism.
Table of ContentsPart I: Initial Reflections 1: Reflections on Life Purpose 2: Personal Transformation and Travel and Tourism Part II: Foucault and Transformation 3: Destination under Discipline: Foucault and the Transformation of Place Makers 4: The Normalization of Places and Spaces: Tourism and Transformation – A Glossary on the Eye-of-Authority Part III: Where is the Host? 5: Where is the Host? An Analytic Autoethnographic Inquiry in Transformational Tourism Part IV: Transformation of Different Local Communities 6: The Political and Social Transformation of Roma and Jewish Communities through Tourism in Budapest 7: Tourism, Transformation and Urban Ethnic Communities: The Case of Matonge, Brussels 8: The Travelling Favela: Cosmopolitanisms from Above and from Below 9: Transforming Nature’s Value – Cultural Change Comes from Below: Rural Communities, the ‘Othered’ and Host Capacity Building Part V: Transformation through Different Types of Tourism 10: Transformation of Local Lives through Volunteer Tourism: Peruvian and Thai Case Studies 11: The Impact of Extreme Sports on Host Communities’ Psychological Growth and Development 12: Transformation and the WWOOF Exchange: The Host Experience Part VI: Problems and Solutions 13: Ethnic Conflict: Is Heritage Tourism Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem? 14: Developing a Tourism Poverty Reduction Strategy
