Transformational Tourism: Tourist Perspectives - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1780642091 ISBN 13: 9781780642093

Publisher: CABI, 2013

Synopsis

Transformational Tourism deals with the important issue of how travel and tourism can change human behavior 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Yvette Reisinger is Adjunct Professor of Business at James Cook University in Singapore. Her research interests include cross-cultural differences in behavior, communication, and socio-cultural impacts of tourism.

Review:

"This collection of essays reflects the gradual shift of the tourism literature from the mechanisms of tourism (transportation, hospitality, etc.) to a broad focus on the experience of tourist. The tourist is the focal point of "value-added tourism" in this work, where besides traveling from postcard site to postcard site, the tourist views the experience through a variety of transformational lenses. Chapters, written by contributors from around the world, demonstrate that travel and tourism, "if developed in a proper from, can contribute to human transformation, growth and development, and change human behavior and our relationship with the world." These transformations are explored in sections titled 'Wellness, Retreat, Religious and Spiritual Tourism,' 'Extreme Sports, Backpacking and Cultural Tourism,' 'WWOOFing and Ecotourism,' and 'Volunteer and Educational Tourism.' Editor Reisinger (Temple Univ.) has produced a work that presents these perspectives in a lively, well-written manner. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduate through faculty and research collections (CHOICE 2013-11-01)

About this edition

• Publisher: CABI
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1780642091
• ISBN 13: 9781780642093
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 216
• Editor: Reisinger Yvette