Tourism and Cultural Conflicts

by Mike Robinson; Priscilla Boniface

• ISBN13: 9780851992723
• ISBN10: 0851992722
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1999-03-04
• Publisher: Cab Intl

Summary

The tourism industry and the tourists it serves can exert major influences on host communities at a number of levels. On the one hand, tourism can preserve cultures, resurrect forgotten traditions and prevent cultural stagnation. On the other hand, tourism can challenge existing values, social norms, traditions and behaviour, and this can lead to situations of conflict. In extreme cases, resistance or violence can be the result. For the majority of the time, it would seem that as long as tourism delivers the economic and social benefits it frequently promises, problems are often tolerated and some measure of conflict is accepted. However, whenever tourism brings cultures together, whether freely or forced, a range of complex issues are invoked such as the nature of cultural identity, social and economic power relations, legal and moral rights and management responsibilities. This book examines the changing relationships between tourism and host cultures and explores the reasons why and how conflicts emerge, in a series of detailed case studies from many parts of the globe including the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, Nepal, Tunisia, Spain, Peru, and Greece. Initiatives and good practices are highlighted whereby conflict can be replaced by consensus and situations improved through effective management. This book is essential reading for tourism industry professionals and students and researchers in anthropology, sociology and geography.

Table of Contents

Contributors

Preface

Cultural Conflicts in Tourism: Inevitability and Inequality

Indigenous Tourism: Reclaiming Knowledge, Culture and Intellectual Property in Australia

Myth and the Discourse of Texas: Heritage Tourism and the Suppression of Instinctual Life

Managing the Cultural Impacts of Religious Tourism in the Himalayas, Tibet and Nepal

Developing Cultural Tourism in Greece

Tourism Development in De-industrializing Centres of the UK: Change, Culture, Conflict

Trading Culture: Tourism and Tourist Art in Pisac, Peru

Social and Cultural Impacts of Tourism Policy in Tunisia

Cornishness, Conflict and Tourism Development

Some Dimensions of Maori Involvement in Tourism

Tourism and Culture in Spain: A Case of Minimal Conflict?

Partnerships Involving Indigenous Peoples in the Management of Heritage Site

Tourism and Cultures: Consensus in the Making?

Index

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