This book asks the question; why is it that tourism matters? It looks at how it is we do tourism and learn to be tourists when we are on holiday. Tourism is a dynamic way of being that may facilitate or hinder intercultural exchange. The ways in which we do tourism and the places in which we are tourists raise practical, material and emotional questions about tourist life. This book draws on both empirical work and a range of theoretical frameworks, arguing that tourism matters precisely because of the lessons it can teach us about living everyday life with others.
Table of Content
Section One – Living the Tourist Life
1. Why Tourism Matters
2. The Give and the Take
3. Doing Being Tourists
Section Two – Packing the Travel Bag
4. Packing
5. Packers of Culture
6. Bag-sized Stories
Section Three – Unpacking the Travel Bag
7: New Habits
8: Exchanging Stories
9: Changing Spaces
Section Four – After Tourism
10: The Return to Routine
11: Conclusions
About the author
Alison Phipps holds the UNESCO Chair in Refugee Integration through Languages and the Arts at the University of Glasgow, where she is also professor of languages and intercultural studies and co-convener of Glasgow Refugee, Asylum and Migration Network (GRAMNET).
More ebooks from the same author(s) / Editor
7,724 Ebooks in this category
