The Local Turn in Tourism: Empowering Communities

Published by Channel View Publications 2023

The Local Turn in Tourism

Empowering Communities

Edited by: Freya Higgins-Desbiolles and Bobbie Chew Bigby

Volume 95 in the series Aspects of Tourism

https://doi.org/10.21832/9781845418809

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About this book

This book considers the vital importance of local communities to just and sustainable tourism futures. The contributors examine how tourism can be reoriented to better connect people, place and planet. This local turn starts by centring local communities at the heart of tourism and identifies ways to ensure local community rights and benefits.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Figures and Tables Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Contributors Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Dedication Publicly Available Download PDF	xxi
Preface Publicly Available Download PDF	xxiii
Foreword Helena Norberg-Hodge Publicly Available Download PDF	xxvii
Local Roots Vesper Tjukonai Publicly Available Download PDF	xxxi
Introduction Introduction Freya Higgins-Desbiolles and Bobbie Chew Bigby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
Part 1 Theorising Local Communities in Tourism Anew
1 Place-based Governance in Tourism: Placing Local Communities at the Centre of Tourism Introduction Bobbie Chew Bigby, Joseph Edgar and Freya Higgins-Desbiolles Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	31
2 Circular Oikonomia, Posthumanism and Local Space to Socialise Tourism Introduction Lucia Tomassini and Elena Cavagnaro Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	54
3 Travel Boycotts, Ethical Consumption and Destination Communities: Expanding the Morality of Neighbourliness Introduction Siamak Seyfi and C. Michael Hall Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
4 The Local Turn in Tourism: Place-based Realities, Dangers and Opportunities Introduction Can-Seng Ooi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	82
Part 2 Case Studies of Local Community (Dis)/(Re)/ Empowerment
5 Unheard Voices: Youth Activism for Social and Environmental Justice Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	103
6 Enhanced Food Security Through Localised Community Cryptocurrency: Experiences of a Costa Rican Tourism Town Introduction Mary Little Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	116
7 An Ethnographical Study of Community Tourism: Seeking Alternative Tourism Options for Malta Through ‘Meet the Locals’ Introduction Andrew Jones and Julian Zarb Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	133
Part 3 Practitioners’ Views and Insights
8 Localhood The Epilogue Signe Jungersted Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	155
9 The Story of Cambodian Children’s Trust: Evolving Development Practice From ‘Doing For’ Communities To ‘Doing With’ Communities Introduction Tara Winkler Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	169
10 The Neighbourhood Where History, Community, Tourism and Truth-Telling Meet: A Tourism Practitioner Case Study from the Greenwood Cultural Center of Tulsa, Oklahoma Introduction Bobbie Chew Bigby and Michelle Brown-Burdex Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	194
Part 4 Imagining New Futures
11 Convivial Tourism in Proximity Introduction Nora Müller, Robert Fletcher and Macià Blázquez-Salom Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
12 Towards a ‘More-than-Tourism’ Perspective for Localising Tourism Phoebe Everingham and Sinéad Francis-Coan Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	232
13 Reclaiming the City: Social Movements and the Local Impacts of the Global Tourism Industry Introduction: The Worst Year of the Industry Alexander Araya López Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	250
14 Conclusion: What is to be Done? Introduction Freya Higgins-Desbiolles and Bobbie Chew Bigby Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	269
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	280

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Pages
- Main content: 328
Keywords: Sustainability; Tourism industry

eBook

Published: November 10, 2022
ISBN: 9781845418809