Beyond Tips and Sunscreen: Exploring Tourist-Host Encounters through Communication, Culture and Identity

Schneider-Bean, Sundae

ISBN 10: 3639080807 / ISBN 13: 9783639080803

Published by VDM Verlag Dr. Müller, 2008

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Beyond Tips and Sunscreen: Exploring Tourist-Host Encounters through Communication, Culture and Identity
• Publisher: VDM Verlag Dr. Müller
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3639080807
• ISBN 13: 9783639080803
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Like New
• Book Type: book

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Synopsis

This book explores the sociocultural impacts of tourism in San Pedro, Belize by paying special attention to identity construction of tourists and hosts. This is achieved through a qualitative study that analyzes narratives gathered through formal and informal interviews and contextualized by participant observation. By utilizing a communicative conceptualization of identity and intercultural theorizing, light is shed on the complex negotiation process that tourists and hosts employ when making sense of their experiences, themselves and others through talk. The author demonstrates that the role of communication and the level of adaptation are central to satisfactory outcomes for these (intercultural) tourist-host encounters. She also illustrates the disparate ways tourists and hosts construct identity and negotiate the presence of tourists on the community. By incorporating critical notions of history and power, our understanding is enhanced of problematic tourist communication styles; hosts¿ preference for tourists¿ adaptation; and communicative strategies tourists utilized to reconcile differences in privilege. Finally, practical advice based on these findings is provided.

About the Author

Sundae Schneider-Bean is an experienced interculturalist, trainer and global leadership coach. She holds a master¿s degree in communication, where she specialized in intercultural communication in the tourism context. Currently she is working for one of Switzerland¿s largest employers to develop its peoples¿ language and intercultural competence.