Rethinking Tourism series – serie

This insightful book reappraises how traditional high culture attractions have been supplemented by popular culture events, contemporary creativity and everyday life through inventive styles of tourism. Greg Richards draws on over three decades of research to provide a new approach to the topic, combining practice and interaction ritual theories and developing a model of cultural tourism as a social practice.Taking readers on a concise journey from the 1900s to the present day, Rethinking Cultural Tourism examines the evolution of cultural tourism and the resulting consequences, analysing the dynamics of new practices and emerging trends. The book concludes by considering how technology is causing a shift in tourist behaviour and experiences to meet the ever-growing demand for new travelling experiences and discovering new places and cultures.This innovative, thought-provoking book is an essential read for researchers of cultural and creative tourism and social practices, as well as providing a useful review of the development of cultural tourism for scholars in related fields such as human geography.

In this innovative book, Deepak Chhabra adopts an alternative approach to heritage tourism, demonstrating its potential to stimulate and sustain wellbeing and ecological resources. Through ethical and eudaimonic lenses, Chhabra proposes a new multi-dimensional model of authenticity.Synthesizing insights from diverse fields across social science and science chapters, Chhabra examines heritage tourism from both supply and demand viewpoints. The book advocates for a paradigm shift, emphasizing the importance of different levels of existentially authentic experiences. This book ultimately explores how heritage tourism experiences can evoke transcendence, inspiring altruism, morality and transformative sustainable outcomes.Rethinking Heritage Tourism is a thought-provoking read for scholars and students of heritage studies, tourism and related fields. It is also highly beneficial for practitioners at heritage institutions and destination organizations seeking to redefine the landscape of heritage tourism.

This invigorating read explores the inherent unsustainability of events, exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic crisis. Vassilios Ziakas challenges the dominant paradigms of the field, suggesting the need to seriously rethink how we view, study and manage events in order to develop holistic event management frameworks which foster their adaptability and resilience.Treating events as complex ecosystems, Ziakas constructs a transdisciplinary explanatory framework to provide an integrative outlook for treating events and develop a comprehensive analytic for their study. Merging the contextual, policy, operational and sociocultural grounds of event portfolios, the book sheds light on how events operate as social systems interlinked with community networks. Chapters introduce cross-management as a holistic approach enabling inter-industry operational practices to move away from the current fragmented outlook across events theory and practice.Incisive and visionary, this book will be a thought-provoking read for students, researchers and practitioners in event management, tourism, leisure studies, sport management and cultural studies.

In this enlightening book, leading expert Carla Barbieri pairs research-based insights and practical knowledge from the growing agritourism sector, highlighting key developments in the field and identifying paths for future research and practice.Drawing on Barbieri’s extensive work around the world, this book highlights outstanding and applicable practices in agritourism stemming from her research and on-the-ground observations. Adopting a systems approach that positions agritourism within its macro agricultural, tourism and societal contexts, the book begins by describing the foundations of agritourism, the many different offerings that determine its diverse identity, and the wide benefits it produces. Chapters then analyse the key actors in agritourism, including farmers and tourists, and the role of women in its development. The last section of the book describes how the sector is broadening and elaborates on the future of agritourism scholarship and practice.Rethinking Agritourism is an essential reference for academics, educators and students in tourism, rural sociology, agriculture and agriculture economics. It is also an enlightening read for farmers and agricultural producers, as well as individuals working at the intersection of agriculture and tourism in the private, non-profit and government sector.

Rethinking Tourism and Development provides a critical analysis of the tourism industry's impact on development and the environment. While tourism contributes significantly to the global economy, it also generates environmental costs that can no longer be ignored. This book challenges the conventional paradigm of sustainable tourism development and proposes a radical new approach to address the negative impacts of tourism.Chapters cover the global environmental crisis, the overconsumption of tourism and the impact of a growth-based economy in relation to tourism and development. Through a detailed examination of the tourism industry's adherence to the pursuit of economic growth, Richard Sharpley and David J. Telfer argue that the expansion of tourism has resulted in exploitation and inequality. It explores the concept of degrowth and proposes that tourism should be rethought within this framework, offering a possible pathway to a post-growth world.The book is ideal for undergraduate and postgraduate tourism students, particularly those focusing on sustainability and tourism economics. It will also be an interesting read for human geography, development studies and environment scholars and academics looking for new insights into the relationship between tourism and development, and how it could be reframed.

This insightful book reappraises how traditional high culture attractions have been supplemented by popular culture events, contemporary creativity and everyday life through inventive styles of tourism. Greg Richards draws on over three decades of research to provide a new approach to the topic, combining practice and interaction ritual theories and developing a model of cultural tourism as a social practice.Taking readers on a concise journey from the 1900s to the present day, Rethinking Cultural Tourism examines the evolution of cultural tourism and the resulting consequences, analysing the dynamics of new practices and emerging trends. The book concludes by considering how technology is causing a shift in tourist behaviour and experiences to meet the ever-growing demand for new travelling experiences and discovering new places and cultures.This innovative, thought-provoking book is an essential read for researchers of cultural and creative tourism and social practices, as well as providing a useful review of the development of cultural tourism for scholars in related fields such as human geography.