Tourism and Geographies of Inequality: The New Global Slumming Phenomenon

ISBN-13: 9780367739683 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 162 str.

Fabian Frenzel; Ko Koens

Opis

A topical volume on the rapidly evolving phenomenon of slum tourism. Using a diversity of perspectives slum tourism practices around the globe are investigated to better appreciate this controversial pastime.

This book was published as a special issue of Tourism Geographies.

Spis treści

1. Slum Tourism: Developments in a Young Field of Interdisciplinary Tourism Research  2. ‘We did the Slum!’ – Urban Poverty Tourism in Historical Perspective  3. Poor but Happy: Volunteer Tourists’ Encounters with Poverty  4. Slum Tourism: Representing and Interpreting ‘Reality’ in Dharavi, Mumbai  5. Informal Urbanism and the Taste for Slums  6. Mobile Imaginaries, Portable Signs: Global Consumption and Representations of Slum Life  7. Glimpses of Another World: The Favela as a Tourist Attraction  8. Encounters over Garbage: Tourists and Lifestyle Migrants in Mexico

O autorze

Fabian Frenzel is Lecturer at the School of Management, University of Leicester, UK. His research interests converge in the political implications of travel and mobility. As a postdoctoral Marie Curie Fellow at the University of Potsdam he has investigated slum tourism in Africa, India and Brazil.

Ko Koens is a Lecturer at the Academy of Hotel and Facility Management, NHTV Breda University of Applied Sciences. His main research interests are sustainability, entrepreneurship and social dilemmas in tourism and hospitality.