The Moralisation of Tourism : Sun, Sand... and Saving the World?

ISBN-13: 9780415296557 / Angielski / Twarda / 2002 / 176 str.

Jim Butcher

Opis

Tourism is no longer an innocent pleasure, but has been reinterpreted as damaging to cultures and to the environment. New forms of tourism, such as ecotourism, alternative tourism, community tourism and ethical tourism, have been presented as morally superior alternatives to the package holiday. Ironically though, even advocates of the new, ethical tourism brands are increasingly subject to criticisms, not dissimilar to those that they themselves level against package holidays.

Recenzje

'A welcome and thorough critique of the contemporary debate about tourism.' - Tourism

'A swashbuckling defence of modern mass tourism ... by taking as committed and lively a stance in favour of mass tourism as its critics, Butcher has helped balance the debate.' - Tourism Review International

Spis treści

Introduction Chapter 1. Mass Tourism Chapter 2. What's new? - Traveller, tourist and the moral debate Chapter 3. The hosts: fragile places, fragile people? Chapter 4. The tourists: too much freedom? Chapter 5. The cultural sensibilities of the New Moral Tourist Chapter 6. Travelling for a change: global culture and the ethical tourist Chapter 7. The moralisation of tourism, the Third World and development, Postscript: Re-presenting tourism

O autorze

Jim Butcher