Transformational Tourism
Subtitle: Tourist Perspectives
Publisher: CABI
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Wallingford
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 253
ISBN-13: 9781780642307
Subjects: Social aspects; Environmental psychology; Tourism; Psychological aspects
Description: ""Transformational Tourism"" deals with the important issue of how travel and tourism can change human behavior 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, as well as 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.
Notes: Description based on print version record.
Table of contents: title: Contributors; Preface; Content Previews; PART I: INTRODUCTION; 1 Hopeful Tourism: a Transformational Perspective; PART II: TRANSFORMATION AND TOURISM; 2 Transformation and Transformational Learning Theory; 3 Connection between Travel, Tourism and Transformation; 4 Not 'On Vacation': Survival Escapist Travel as an Agent of Transformation; PART III: WELLNESS, RETREAT, RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL TOURISM; 5 Transforming Quality of Life through Wellness Tourism; 6 Retreat Tourism as a Form of Transformational Tourism.; title: 7 Nearer to God; title: Transformational Experiences of Short-term Mission Travellers8 The Transformative Power of Yoga Tourism; PART IV: EXTREME SPORTS, BACKPACKING AND CULTURAL TOURISM; 9 Extreme Sports as Transformational Tourism; 10 Returning Home: Reflections on Lifestyle Transformation Resulting from International Backpacker Travels; 11 Finding Themselves in San Blas, Panama; PART V: WWOOFING AND ECOTOURISM; 12 WWOOFing Tourists, Beaten Tracks and Transformational Paths; 13 The Next Stage of Eco-travel: Facilitating Transformation through Personal Ethics.; title: PART VI: VOLUNTEER AND EDUCATIONAL TOURISM14 Acculturation, Re-entry and Transformation: the Story of a Volunteer Tourist; 15 Travel for Education: a Force for Peace and Cross-cultural Understanding?; 16 Doing Good for God's Sake: the Role of Religion in Altruism. The Case of Volunteer Tourism; Conclusion; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y.