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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, and 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 ContentsI: Preface PART I: INTRODUCTION 1: Hopeful Tourism: a Transformational Perspective PART II: TRANSFORMATION AND TOURISM 2: Transformation and Transformational Learning Theory 3: Connection between Travel, Tourism and Transformation 4: Not ‘On Vacation’: Survival Escapist Travel as an Agent of Transformation PART III: WELLNESS, RETREAT, RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL TOURISM 5: Transforming Quality of Life through Wellness Tourism 6: Retreat Tourism as a Form of Transformational Tourism 7: Nearer to God – Transformational Experiences of Short-term Mission Travellers 8: The Transformative Power of Yoga Tourism PART IV: EXTREME SPORTS, BACKPACKING AND CULTURAL TOURISM 9: Extreme Sports as Transformational Tourism 10: Returning Home: Reflections on Lifestyle Transformation Resulting from International Backpacker Travels 11: Finding Themselves in San Blas, Panama PART V: WWOOFING AND ECOTOURISM 12: WWOOFing Tourists, Beaten Tracks and Transformational Paths 13: The Next Stage of Eco-travel: Facilitating Transformation through Personal Ethics PART VI: VOLUNTEER AND EDUCATIONAL TOURISM 14: Acculturation, Re-entry and Transformation: the Story of a Volunteer Tourist 15: Travel for Education: a Force for Peace and Cross-cultural Understanding? 16: Doing Good for God’s Sake: the Role of Religion in Altruism. The Case of Volunteer Tourism 17: Conclusion
