Yvette Reisinger is Adjunct Professor of Business at James Cook University in Singapore 574421. Her research interests include cross-cultural differences in behavior, communication, and socio-cultural impacts of tourism. Dr. Omar Moufakkir is a professor, MA programs course leader at Stenden University in the Netherlands, and the editor of 'The Journal of Tourism and Peace Research'. His current research focuses on tourism and peace and the effects of immigration on destination image and travel propensity.

• Part I: Initial Reflections 1: Reflections on Life Purpose 2: Personal Transformation and Travel and Tourism Part II: Foucault and Transformation 3: Destination under Discipline: Foucault and the Transformation of Place Makers 4: The Normalization of Places and Spaces: Tourism and Transformation – A Glossary on the Eye-of-Authority Part III: Where is the Host? 5: Where is the Host? An Analytic Autoethnographic Inquiry in Transformational Tourism Part IV: Transformation of Different Local Communities 6: The Political and Social Transformation of Roma and Jewish Communities through Tourism in Budapest 7: Tourism, Transformation and Urban Ethnic Communities: The Case of Matonge, Brussels 8: The Travelling Favela: Cosmopolitanisms from Above and from Below 9: Transforming Nature’s Value – Cultural Change Comes from Below: Rural Communities, the ‘Othered’ and Host Capacity Building Part V: Transformation through Different Types of Tourism 10: Transformation of Local Lives through Volunteer Tourism: Peruvian and Thai Case Studies 11: The Impact of Extreme Sports on Host Communities’ Psychological Growth and Development 12: Transformation and the WWOOF Exchange: The Host Experience Part VI: Problems and Solutions 13: Ethnic Conflict: Is Heritage Tourism Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem? 14: Developing a Tourism Poverty Reduction Strategy