About the Book
The tourism industry and the tourists it serves can exert a major influence on host communities. Tourism can preserve cultures, resurrect forgotten traditions and prevent cultural stagnation. However, where existing values, social norms, traditions, and behaviour are challenged by tourists, this can lead to situations of conflict. An array of complex issues including the nature of cultural identity, social power relations, moral rights, management responsibilities and economic realities are involved. In extreme cases, resistance or even violence is the result. However, as long as the tourists bring economic benefits, the problems are often tolerated. This book examines the changing relationships between tourism and host cultures and explores the reasons why and how these conflicts emerge, in a series of detailed case studies from many part of the globe. Initiatives and good practices whereby conflict can be replaced by consensus and effective management are highlighted. The text is reading for tourism industry professionals and students and researchers in anthropology, sociology and geography.
Table of Contents:
1: Cultural Conflicts in Tourism: Inevitability and Inequality, M Robinson 2: Indigenous Tourism: Reclaiming Knowledge, Culture and Intellectual Property in Australia, E Whittaker, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada 3: Myth and the Discourse of Texas: Heritage Tourism and the Suppression of Instinctual Life, K Hollinshead, Texas A & M University, Texas, USA 4: Managing the Cultural Impacts of Religious Tourism in the Himalayas, Tibet and Nepal, M Shackley, The Nottingham Trent University, UK 5: Developing Cultural Tourism in Greece, E Karpodini-Dimitriadi, Institute of Cultural Studies of Europe and the Mediterranean, Athens, Greece 6: Tourism Development in De-industrializing Centres of the UK: Change, Culture and Conflict, M Robinson 7: Trading Culture: Tourism and Tourist Art in Pisac, Peru, J Henrici, University of Texas at Austin, Texas, USA 8: Social and Cultural Impacts of Tourism Policy in Tunisia, S Bleasdale and S Tapsell, University of Middlesex, Enfield, UK 9: Cornishness, Conflict and Tourism Development, M Ireland, The University College of St Mark & St John, Plymouth, UK 10: Some Dimensions of Maori Involvement in Tourism, C Ryan, Northern Territory University, Darwin, Australia 11: Tourism and Culture in Spain: A Case of Minimal Conflict?, M Barke, University of Northumbria, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, UK 12: Partnerships Involving Indigenous Peoples in the Management of Heritage Sites, G Wall, University of Waterloo, Ontario, Canada 13: Tourism and Cultures: Consensus in the Making?, P Boniface
