Otherness, Othering and Space in Tourism Futures

Lucia Tomassini is a Senior Research Lecturer at NHL Stenden University of Applied Sciences, Leeuwarden, the Netherlands. Her research interests include sustainability, the circular economy in tourism and hospitality animal-based tourism, animal justice, more-than-human societies, humour theory and comics.

Tourism is about encountering ‘the Other’ – other peoples, places, species and lifeways. This compilation guides us through multiple encounters with Others in various contexts, most particularly human-animal interfaces in tourism. Using a futures lens and an ethical imaginary, Dr Tomassini has commissioned a talented group of authors to reveal to us tourism potentialities in supporting more ecocentric and inclusive futures.

• Chapter 1. Lucia Tomassini: Introduction - Entangled with the Others: What are the Implications for Tourism Futures?PART 1: Theoretical Perspectives on Otherness, Processes of Othering and Space in Contemporary Tourism and Implications for its Future DevelopmentChapter 2. Lucia Tomassini: The Future of Tourism: Memos for this New MillenniumChapter 3. Elisa Burrai: A Posthuman Theorisation of Otherness and Othering in Tourism and MigrationChapter 4. Jessica Bell Rizzolo and David Fennell: Animal Ethics and Cultural Relativism: Bridging 'Otherness' to Find Justice for Non-Human Animals in Tourism FuturesChapter 5. Dominic Lapointe, Arianne Simard-Picard, Julien Menu, Guillaume Ethier and Laurence Laroque Labossière: Sugar Shacking Tourism Assemblage: Deterritorialization and Othering Maple Trees in Complex Possible FuturesPART 2: Navigating Spatial Entanglements with the ‘Other’ and Implications for Tourism FuturesChapter 6. Giovanna Bertella and Ludovica Lombardini: The Future of Rural Tourism and Leisure Literature: Perpetuating or Challenging the Othering of Farm Animals?Chapter 7. Meghan L. Muldoon: Human and More-Than-Human Animal Mobilities in an Insecure World: A Critique of (De)Humanising Narratives and Implications for Alternative FuturesChapter 8. Hindertje Hoarau-Heemstra and Anne Wally Ryan: Encountering the 'Other': The Role of Underwater Photographers in Shaping the Futures of Regenerative Marine TourismChapter 9. Mikko Äijälä, Minni Haanpää and José-Carlos García-Rosell: Video Methods in Co-Creating Space for Non-Human Animals in Tourism FuturesChapter 10. Francesco Vietti: Exploring the Twilight Zone: Anthropology, Science-Fiction and Tourism Futures in Urban EnvironmentsPART 3: Views and Insights from Independent Researchers and PractitionersChapter 11. Sarah Gainsforth: Tourism, Urban Population and Othering: Critical Reflections and Forecasts for Italian Cultural CitiesChapter 12. Jana Milovanovič: The Space of Young Residents with a Migrant Background as Cross-Border Guides: The Project ‘Rural Migrantour: Paths of Recovery’Chapter 13. Michal Lovecky and Ninja Mueller: Digital Worlds for Blue Tourism: The Case of Extended Realities in Tourism FuturesChapter 14. Christian Lenzi and Chiara Grasso: Bridging Theory to Practice for an Ethical Animal-Based Tourism Future: The Case of the Italian Association ETICOSCIENZAChapter 15. Lucia Tomassini: Conclusive Reflections on Tourism Futures: Memos, Turning Points and Emerging ThemesIndex