Tourism as a Pathway to Hope and Happiness

Description

Adopts a unique, positive stance towards tourism as opposed to the more frequent negative attitudes

Tourism is often viewed as a phenomenon that brings out the worst in human nature. Self-interest, overuse of resources, injustice and cultural erosion are but a few examples. This book explores the contrasting view that tourism can be a pathway to hope and happiness. The chapters address areas including wellbeing, positive psychology, hopeful tourism, mindfulness, peace, responsible tourism and spirituality. The volume examines the role of tourism in preserving natural wonders and architectural masterpieces, bringing out the best in tourists and locals and adding economic value if planned, developed and managed sustainably. It will be a useful resource for students and researchers in tourism, psychology and philosophy.

Contributors

Tej Vir Singh: Preface

David A. Fennell: Introduction

Part 1 Theoretical and Philosophical Foundations

Chapter 1. Metin Kozak: Moving from Positive Psychology to Positive Tourism: A Conceptual Approach

Chapter 2. Carla Fraga and Lúcia Bogéa Borges: The Search for Meaning in Life: The Role of Tourism

Chapter 3. Gianna Moscardo: Eat Pray Love or Total Recall? Mindfulness and Tourism

Chapter 4. Reni Polus and Neil Carr: Volunteer Tourism: A Pathway to Hope and Happiness?

Part 2 Destinations, Settings and Populations

Chapter 5. David Bowen and Jackie Clarke: Familiar Tourists as a Source for Hope, Happiness and the Good Life: In Situ Tourist Tales

Chapter 6. Subhajit Das and Hiran Roy: Food Tourism through the Lens of Post-Materialism: Valuing the Cultural Ruralscape

Chapter 7. Mona Mirehie and Iryna Sharayevska: Family Travel, Positive Psychology and Well-Being

Chapter 8. Johnny Coomansingh: The Trinidad Carnival and the Promotion of Joie de Vivre

Part 3 Adjustment and Change

Chapter 9. Melanie Kay Smith: Retreating towards Subjective Well-Being

Chapter 10. Michael Fagence: Enrichment and Enlightenment from Engagement with History through Heritage-Based Tourism

Chapter 11. Sera Vada and Noel Scott: Navigating the New Normal: Restorative Tourism Experiences during Times of Crisis

Chapter 12. Rami K. Isaac: Tourism, Hope and Peace: A Counter-Discourse in Palestine

Chapter 13. David A. Fennell: Deep Peace and the Solo Wilderness Canoe Experience

Richard Butler: Conclusion

Index

Sujets

• Movements
• Industries
• PHILOSOPHY
• Employabilité, métiers et formations
• Hospitality industry
• Hospitality
• Professional
• Undergraduate education
• Positive psychology
• Travel
• Postgraduate education
• General officer
• Tourism
• Economics
• Business
• General
• Research
• Postgraduate
• Undergraduate
• Industrie

Informations

• Publié par: Channel View Publications
• Date de parution: 05 décembre 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781845418571
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

Extrait

Tourism as a Pathway to Hope and Happiness
ASPECTS OF TOURISM
Series Editors: Chris Cooper ( Leeds Beckett University, UK ), C. Michael Hall ( University of Canterbury, New Zealand ) and Dallen J. Timothy ( Arizona State University, USA )
Aspects of Tourism is an innovative, multifaceted series, which comprises authoritative reference handbooks on global tourism regions, research volumes, texts and monographs. It is designed to provide readers with the latest thinking on tourism worldwide and in so doing will push back the frontiers of tourism knowledge. The series also introduces a new generation of international tourism authors writing on leading edge topics.
The volumes are authoritative, readable and user-friendly, providing accessible sources for further research. Books in the series are commissioned to probe the relationship between tourism and cognate subject areas such as strategy, development, retailing, sport and environmental studies. The publisher and series editors welcome proposals from writers with projects on the above topics.
All books in this series are externally peer-reviewed.
Full details of all the books in this series and of all our other publications can be found on http://www.channelviewpublications.com , or by writing to Channel View Publications, St Nicholas House, 31–34 High Street, Bristol, BS1 2AW, UK.
ASPECTS OF TOURISM: 96
Tourism as a Pathway to Hope and Happiness
Edited by
Tej Vir Singh, Richard Butler and David A. Fennell
CHANNEL VIEW PUBLICATIONS
Bristol • Jackson
DOI https://doi.org/10.21832/SINGH8557
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
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Names: Singh, Tej Vir, editor. | Butler, Richard, editor. | Fennell, David A., editor.
Title: Tourism as a Pathway to Hope and Happiness/Edited by Tej Vir Singh, Richard Butler and David A. Fennell.
Description: Jackson: Channel View Publications, [2023] | Series: Aspects of Tourism: 96 | Includes bibliographical references and index. | Summary: “This book explores the view that tourism can be a pathway to hope and happiness. It examines the role of tourism in preserving natural and architectural wonders, bringing out the best in tourists and locals and adding economic value if managed sustainably. It is a useful resource for students and researchers in tourism, psychology and philosophy”—Provided by publisher.
Identifiers: LCCN 2022033624 (print) | LCCN 2022033625 (ebook) | ISBN 9781845418557 (hardback) | ISBN 9781845418540 (paperback) | ISBN 9781845418564 (pdf) | ISBN 9781845418571 (epub)
Subjects: LCSH: Tourism—Psychological aspects. | Tourism—Philosophy. | Tourists—Mental health.
Classification: LCC G155.A1 T589146 2023 (print) | LCC G155.A1 (ebook) | DDC 910/.019—dc23/eng20221102
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Contents
Contributors
Preface
Tej Vir Singh
Introduction
David A. Fennell
Part 1 Theoretical and Philosophical Foundations
1 Moving from Positive Psychology to Positive Tourism: A Conceptual Approach
Metin Kozak
2 The Search for Meaning in Life: The Role of Tourism
Carla Fraga and Vera Lúcia Bogéa Borges
3 Eat Pray Love or Total Recall ? Mindfulness and Tourism
Gianna Moscardo
4 Volunteer Tourism: A Pathway to Hope and Happiness?
Reni Polus and Neil Carr
Part 2 Destinations, Settings and Populations
5 Familiar Tourists as a Source for Hope, Happiness and the Good Life: In Situ Tourist Tales
David Bowen and Jackie Clarke
6 Food Tourism through the Lens of Post-Materialism: Valuing the Cultural Ruralscape
Subhajit Das and Hiran Roy
7 Family Travel, Positive Psychology and Well-Being
Mona Mirehie and Iryna Sharayevska
8 The Trinidad Carnival and the Promotion of Joie de Vivre
Johnny Coomansingh
Part 3 Adjustment and Change
9 Retreating towards Subjective Well-Being
Melanie Kay Smith
10 Enrichment and Enlightenment from Engagement with History through Heritage-Based Tourism
Michael Fagence
11 Navigating the New Normal: Restorative Tourism Experiences during Times of Crisis
Sera Vada and Noel Scott
12 Tourism, Hope and Peace: A Counter-Discourse in Palestine
Rami K. Isaac
13 Deep Peace and the Solo Wilderness Canoe Experience
David A. Fennell
Conclusion
Richard Butler
Index
Contributors
Vera Lúcia Bogéa Borges has been an associate professor in the Department of Tourism and Heritage at the Federal University of the State of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, since 2013. She has a postdoctorate in Tourism (2021–2022) from the University of Girona, Catalonia, Spain. She holds a PhD in History from Rio de Janeiro State University, Brazil. She leads the Group for Interdisciplinary Research of Tourisms and Cities (INTERTUR). Her research interests are tourism and history. She is a member of the National Association for Research and Postgraduate Study of Tourism (ANPTUR) and of the National History Association (ANPUH).
David Bowen gained his first degree in geography from the University of Oxford, UK. His interest in academic study related to tourism started while working in Kenya. As a result, he studied for an MSc in Tourism at Surrey University, UK, and, after joining Oxford Brookes University, completed a PhD entitled ‘Consumer Satisfaction on Long-Haul Tours’. David has developed and taught numerous university courses on tourism at undergraduate and postgraduate level. He is currently Reader and Head of Doctoral Programmes at the Oxford Brookes Business School. David’s research interests focus on tourist consumer behaviour and tourism destination development. He has published on those and other topics in a range of academic journals and recently wrote the completely revised second edition of Contemporary Tourist Behaviour: Yourself and Others as Tourists (CABI, 2022).
Richard Butler is Emeritus Professor of Tourism in the School of Business at the University of Strathclyde, UK. He has published 25 books and nearly 100 journal articles and book chapters and was awarded the UN World Tourism Organization Ulysses Prize in 2016 for ‘excellence in the creation and dissemination of knowledge’.
Neil Carr is a professor in the Department of Tourism at the University of Otago, New Zealand. His research focuses on issues of rights, welfare, and freedom within tourism and leisure experiences, with a particular emphasis on children and families, sex, and animals (especially dogs). The brains behind the wonky façade of Neil belong to Sarah and Ebony (and, before her, Gypsy and Snuffie).
Jackie Clarke is a Reader at Oxford Brookes University UK, she has an initial industry background in tour operation and aviation and is a Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society. Her research focuses on tourism that embraces tourist behaviour, marketing and intersections with geographical ways of thinking, most recently focusing on destinations and the phenomenon of place familiarity (with Bowen). Her research papers have been published across both tourism, consumer behaviour and marketing journals
Johnny Coomansingh was born in Sangre Grande, Trinidad, and started out as a high school teacher. After eight years of teaching mathematics and human and social biology, he went to work as an agricultural extension officer. Following his work in agricultural extension, he accepted a position in the Trinidad and Tobago Petroleum Company as a corporate communications officer. In 1996 he left Trinidad for the USA. In the USA he worked as a professor in the field of geography and tourism. He continues to write and engage in research activities in Trinidad and Tobago and the Caribbean region.
Subhajit Das is an assistant professor in the Department of Geography at Presidency University, India. He received his PhD in Geography from the University of Kalyani, India. His primary research interest is the geography of tourism, and specific areas are tourism and community development, community politics among tourism stakeholders, tourism walkability, and rural tourism. His research works have been published in edited books by international publishers such as Routledge and Channel View Publications. He has also published research articles in the journals of Elsevier and Taylor & Francis.
Michael Fagence is first and foremost a geographer. Drawing on the inspiration of Richard Hartshorne’s ideas about ‘areal differentiation’ he has applied the processes of ‘thinking geographically’ to a number of fields, and in recent years his research h