Tourism and Wellness: Travel for the Good of All?

by Bryan S. R. Grimwood (Editor), Heather Mair (Editor), Kellee Caton Thompson Rivers University, Canada (Editor), Meghan Muldoon (Editor), Ana María Munar Copenhagen Business School, Denmark (Foreword by)

Overview

Tourism and Wellness: Travel for the Good of All? enhances academic understandings and analyses of tourism as a social and worldmaking force by situating broad questions of well-being, health, and equity within the scaffolds of critical tourism studies. Contributors touch on power and politics, space and place, reflexivity and relationships, values and affect, and inequality and equity as viewed through critically informed and social justice perspectives. This collection of cutting-edge, critical tourism analyses contextualizes and disrupts how wellness is understood in tourism.

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781498563291
Publisher:	Lexington Books
Publication date:	11/15/2018
Series:	The Anthropology of Tourism: Heritage, Mobility, and Society
Pages:	250
Product dimensions:	6.25(w) x 9.12(h) x 0.82(d)

About the Author

Dr. Heather Mair is an Assistant Professor in the Recreation and Leisure Studies Department, University of Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Mair's research focuses on the challenges and opportunities presented by tourism development in rural Canada. She has authored numerous publications in tourism and leisure studies with a particular focus on community-based tourism planning and development, leisure and volunteer activists, the (social) role of curling clubs in rural Canadian life and the need for enhanced critical and theoretical approaches to leisure and tourism research.

Dr. Heather Mair is an Assistant Professor in the Recreation and Leisure Studies Department, University of Waterloo, Canada. Dr. Mair's research focuses on the challenges and opportunities presented by tourism development in rural Canada. She has authored numerous publications in tourism and leisure studies with a particular focus on community-based tourism planning and development, leisure and volunteer activists, the (social) role of curling clubs in rural Canadian life and the need for enhanced critical and theoretical approaches to leisure and tourism research.

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Black Female Cultural Safety in tebrakunna country: What is Wellness for Us? by Emma Lee

Chapter 2: Exploring Local Languages Use in Community-Based Tourism Settings in Haida Gwaii (British Columbia, Canada) by Kelly Whitney-Gould, Pamela Wright, Anna Carr, and Jason (Gaagwiis) Alsop

Chapter 3: Blogging for Researcher Wellbeing in a Study of South African Township Tourism by Meghan Muldoon

Chapter 4: Let Them be Heard: The Emotional Performances of Enslaved Narratives at United States Plantation Sites by Stefanie Benjamin

Chapter 5: Caring for Animal Welfare: Volunteer Tourists and Captive-Elephant Wellbeing in Thailand by Madyson Taylor, Bryan S. R. Grimwood, and Karla Boluk

Chapter 6: Retreat and Freedom at the Canadian Cottage: An Early Feminist Story by Julia Harrison

Chapter 7: Family Travel in the US: Attitudes and Barriers to Family Wellbeing by Lynn Minnaert

Chapter 8: Wellness Through Everyday Place-Sharing: The Emotional Geographies of Migrant Family Travel Back ‘Home’ to Cyprus by Kelley A. McClinchey

Chapter 9: Making Love on the Farm: The Shambhala Music Festival by Nataliya Kiyan and Kellee Caton

Chapter 10: Community Wellbeing Between Climate Risk and Tourism Development: Contradictions on the Shore of the St. Lawrence Estuary by Coralie Lebon and Dominic Lapointe

Editorial Reviews

Moving beyond the level of the individual to consider wellness as more broadly implicated within social and ecological relations, this timely book takes a much needed holistic approach to the fascinating relationship between wellness and tourism.

Hazel Tucker

This invaluable collection brings together contributors who adopt a critical studies approach to scrutinize the tourism-wellness nexus. The depth of thoughts expressed, the freshness of ideas discussed, and the multiplicity of perspectives explored undoubtedly make the book stand out. Those with an academic interest in the subject of tourism and wellness, as well as general and practitioner readers, should find the contents of this book both interesting and inspiring.

Honggen Xiao

This is a terrific book and ought to be read by everyone with an interest in wellness. This compilation sheds much needed light on wellness from an array of spaces and stories, including the Indigenous, the feminist, the historical, the non-human, the researcher, the local and created communities. As such the scope of this volume is complex and holistic in its intention, answering a call for more inclusive and embodied understandings of tourism.

Heike Schanzel