This book focuses on ethnic and minority communities in urban contexts and the ways in which their cultures are represented in tourism development. It offers a multi-disciplinary approach which draws on examples and case studies of ethnic and minority communities and cultural tourism development from all around the world, including slums in India, favelas in Brazil, Chinatowns in Australia, Jewish quarters in Central and Eastern Europe, ethnic villages in China, the African district of Brussels, the gay quarter in Cape Town and a desert town in Israel. It offers a positive perspective on ethnic and minority cultures and communities at a time when social and political support is lacking in many countries. This book will be a useful resource for those studying and researching cultural and urban tourism, urban planning and development, community studies and urban and cultural geography.
Table of Content
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Part One: Socio-Cultural Developments
1. Negotiating Asian identities in London and other Gateway Cities – Stephen J. Shaw
2. Discovering or Intruding? Guided Tours in the Ethnic District Matonge in Brussels – Isabelle Cloquet and Anya Diekmann
3. The Potential for Roma Tourism in Hungary – Anita Zatori and Melanie Smith
Part Two: Community Perceptions
4. Reflections on Ethnic and Minority Communities as a Tool for Improving Intercultural Change in Tourism – Yvette Reisinger and Omar Moufakkir
5. Shifting Perceptions: Negotiating Place and Space in the Israeli Desert Frontier Town of Mitzpe Ramon – Joshua Schmidt
6. Slum Dwellers’ Perceptions of Tourism in Dharavi, Mumbai – Anya Diekmann and Nimit Chowdary
Part Three: Visitor Experiences
7. Would You Be a Favela Tourist? Confronting Expectations and Moral Concerns amongst Brazilian and Foreign Potential Tourists – Bianca Freire-Medeiros and Márcio Grijó Vilarouca
8. China Towns as Tourist Attractions in Australia – Jock Collins Part Four: Development Policies
9. Ethnic Tourism in Rural China: Cultural or Economic ‘Development’? – Nelson Graburn
10. Jewish Culture and Tourism in Budapest – Melanie Smith and Anita Zatori
11. Pink Tourism in Cape Town – the Development of the Post-Apartheid Gay Quarter – Esti Venske
Conclusions
About the author
Melanie Kay Smith (Ph D) is an Associate Professor, Researcher and Consultant whose work focuses on urban planning, cultural tourism, wellness tourism and the relationship between tourism and wellbeing. She is Programme Leader for BSc and MSc Tourism Management at Budapest Metropolitan University in Hungary. She has lectured in the UK, Hungary, Estonia, Germany, Austria and Switzerland as well as being an invited keynote speaker in many countries worldwide. She was Chair of ATLAS (Association for Tourism and Leisure Education) for seven years and has undertaken consultancy work for UNWTO and ETC as well as regional and national projects on cultural and health tourism. She is the author of more than 100 publications.
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