Transformational tourism

Author

Additional Author(s)

• Reisinger, Yvette

Publisher

Boston, MA: CABI Publishing - CAB International, 2013

Language

English

ISBN

9781780642093

Series

Subject(s)

• ENVIRONMENTAL PSYCHOLOGY
• TOURISM--PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECTS
• TOURISM--SOCIAL ASPECTS

Notes

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Abstract

Transformational Tourism deals with the important issue of how travel and tourism can change human behaviour and have a positive impact on the world. The book focuses on human development in a world dominated by post-9/11 security and political challenges, economic and financial collapses, and environmental threats. It identifies various types of tourism that can transform human beings, such as educational, volunteer, survival, community-based, eco, farm, extreme, religious, spiritual, wellness, and mission tourism.

Physical Dimension

Number of Page(s)

xvi, 237 p.

Dimension

25 cm.

Other Desc.

ill.

Summary / Review / Table of Content

Hopeful tourism: a transformational perspective / Annette Pritchard and Nigel Morgan --
Transformation and transformational learning theory / Yvette Reisinger --
Connection between travel, tourism and transformation / Yvette Reisinger --
Not 'on vacation': survival escapist travel as an agent of transformation / Kylie Radel and Wendy Hillman --
Transforming quality of life through wellness tourism / Melanie Smith --
Retreat tourism as a form of transformational tourism / Paul Heintzman --
Nearer to God --
transformational experiences of short-term mission travellers / Yoon Jung Lee and Ulrike Gretzel --
The transformative power of yoga tourism / Lauren M. Ponder and Patrick J. Holladay --
Extreme sports as transformational tourism / Eric Brymer --
Returning home: reflections on lifestyle transformation resulting from international backpacker travels / Mark Kanning --
Finding themselves in San Blas, Panama / Amy Savener --
WWOOFing tourists: beaten tracks and transformational paths / Adrian Deville and Stephen Wearing --
The next stage of eco-travel: facilitating transformation through personal ethics / Agnes M.K. Nowaczek --
Acculturation, re-entry and transformation: the story of a volunteer tourist / Simone Grabowski --
Travel for education: a force for peace and cross-cultural understanding? / Lorraine Brown --
Doing good for God's sake: the role of religion in altruism. The case of volunteer tourism / Jennifer L. Erdely --
Conclusion / Yvette Reisinger.

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