Tourism and Wellness

Bryan S. R. Grimwood

ISBN 10: 1498563295 / ISBN 13: 9781498563291

Published by Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, US, 2018

About this Item

Tourism and Wellness: Travel for the Good of All? enhances academic understandings and analyses of tourism as a social and worldmaking force by situating broad questions of well-being, health, and equity within the scaffolds of critical tourism studies. Contributors touch on power and politics, space and place, reflexivity and relationships, values and affect, and inequality and equity as viewed through critically informed and social justice perspectives. This collection of cutting-edge, critical tourism analyses contextualizes and disrupts how wellness is understood in tourism.For more information, check out A Conversation with the Editors of Tourism and Wellness: Travel for the Good of All?

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tourism and Wellness
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc, US
• Publication Date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1498563295
• ISBN 13: 9781498563291
• Binding: Hardback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 576 grams

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Synopsis

Tourism and Wellness: Travel for the Good of All? enhances academic understandings and analyses of tourism as a social and worldmaking force by situating broad questions of well-being, health, and equity within the scaffolds of critical tourism studies. Contributors touch on power and politics, space and place, reflexivity and relationships, values and affect, and inequality and equity as viewed through critically informed and social justice perspectives. This collection of cutting-edge, critical tourism analyses contextualizes and disrupts how wellness is understood in tourism.

For more information, check out A Conversation with the Editors of Tourism and Wellness: Travel for the Good of All?

About the Authors

Emma Lee is a trawlwulwuy woman of tebrakunna country, north-east Tasmania, Australia. Her research fields over the last 25 years have focused on Indigenous affairs, land and sea management, natural and cultural resources, regional development, policy and governance of Australian regulatory environments.

Dr. Heather Mair is an Assistant Professor in the Recreation and Leisure Studies Department, University of Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Mairâ??s research focuses on the challenges and opportunities presented by tourism development in rural Canada. She has authored numerous publications in tourism and leisure studies with a particular focus on community-based tourism planning and development, leisure and volunteer activists, the (social) role of curling clubs in rural Canadian life and the need for enhanced critical and theoretical approaches to leisure and tourism research.