Slow Tourism Experiences and Mobilities

by Fullagar, Simone; Markwell, Kevin; Wilson, Erica

• ISBN13: 9781845412807
• ISBN10: 184541280X
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2012-03-23
• Publisher: Channel View Publications

Summary

This book examines the emerging phenomenon of slow tourism, addressing growing consumer concerns with quality leisure time, environmental and cultural sustainability, as well as the embodied experience of place. Drawing on a range of international case studies, the book explores how slow tourism encapsulates a range of lifestyle practices, mobilities and ethics.

Author Biography

Simone Fullagar is an interdisciplinary sociologist who has published widely across the areas of health, leisure and tourism, using post-structuralist and feminist perspectives. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.Kevin Markwell is Associate Professor at the School of Business and Tourism, Southern Cross University, Australia. His research focuses on human-animal studies, tourist-nature relationships, wildlife tourism and gay tourism.Erica Wilson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Southern Cross University. Erica teaches in the areas of sustainable tourism and special interest tourism, and her research publications reflect her scholarly interests in womenâ??s travel and adventure, work-life balance, sustainable tourism and critical approaches to tourism research.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Starting Slow: Thinking Through Slow Mobilities and Experiences - Simone Fullagar, Kevin Markwell, Erica Wilson
Positioning Slow Tourism
Chapter 2: Speeding Up and Slowing Down: Pilgrimage and Slow Travel Through Time - Chris Howard
Chapter 3: On the Periphery of Pleasure: Hedonics, Eudaimonics and Slow Travel - Kevin Moore
Chapter 4: Slow'n Down the Town to Let Nature Grow: Ecotourism, Social Justice and Sustainability - Stephen Wearing, Michael Wearing and Matthew McDonald
Slow Food and Sustainable Tourism
Chapter 5: The Contradictions and Paradoxes of Slow Food: Environmental Change, Sustainability and the Conservation of Taste - C. Michael Hall
Chapter 6: Eat Your Way Through Culture: Gastronomic Tourism as Performance and Bodily Experience - Fabio Parasecoli and Paulo de Abreu e Lima
Chapter 7: “Make haste slowly”: Environmental Sustainability and Willing Workers on Organic Farms - Margo Lipman and Laurie Murphy
Slow Mobilities
Chapter 8: Gendered Cultures of Slow Travel: Women's Cycle Touring as Alternative Hedonism - Simone Fullagar
Chapter 9: Wandering Australia: Independent Travellers and Slow Journeys through Time and Space - Marg Tiyce and Erica Wilson
Chapter 10: The Truth of the Body on Random Roads: The Resurgence of Hitchhiking and ‘Self-powered' Practices - Michael O'Regan
Chapter 11: ‘If you're making waves then you have to slow down': Slow Tourism and Canals - Julia Fallon
Slow Tourism Places
Chapter 12: Travellin' Around on Yukon Time in Canada's North - Suzanne de la Barre
Chapter 13: ‘Fast Japan, Slow Japan': Shifting to Slow Tourism as a Rural Regeneration Tool in Japan - Meiko Murayama and Gavin Parker
Chapter 14: Tribe Tourism: A Case Study of the Tribewanted Project on Vorovoro, Fiji - Dawn Gibson, Stephen Pratt & Apisalome Movono
Chapter 15: Slow Tourism Initiatives: An Exploratory Study of Dutch Lifestyle Entrepreneurs in France - Esther Groenendaal
Chapter 16: Slow Travel and Indian Culture: Philosophical and Practical Aspects - Sagar Singh
Chapter 17: Reconceptualising Slow Travel and Tourism - Kevin Markwell, Simone Fullagar and Erica Wilson