Transformational tourism : tourist perspectives

✍ Scribed by Yvette Reisinger

Publisher: CABI
Year: 2013
Tongue: English
Leaves: 254
Category: Library

No coin nor oath required. For personal study only.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 6
Contributors......Page 8
Preface......Page 13
Content Previews......Page 16
PART I: INTRODUCTION......Page 18
1 Hopeful Tourism: a Transformational Perspective......Page 20
PART II: TRANSFORMATION AND TOURISM......Page 32
2 Transformation and Transformational Learning Theory......Page 34
3 Connection between Travel, Tourism and Transformation......Page 44
4 Not ‘On Vacation’: Survival Escapist Travel as an Agent of Transformation......Page 50
PART III: WELLNESS, RETREAT, RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL TOURISM......Page 70
5 Transforming Quality of Life through Wellness Tourism......Page 72
6 Retreat Tourism as a Form of Transformational Tourism......Page 85
7 Nearer to God – Transformational Experiences of Short-term Mission Travellers......Page 99
8 The Transformative Power of Yoga Tourism......Page 115
PART IV: EXTREME SPORTS, BACKPACKING AND CULTURAL TOURISM......Page 126
9 Extreme Sports as Transformational Tourism......Page 128
10 Returning Home: Reflections on Lifestyle Transformation Resulting from International Backpacker Travels......Page 142
11 Finding Themselves in San Blas, Panama......Page 153
PART V: WWOOFING AND ECOTOURISM......Page 166
12 WWOOFing Tourists, Beaten Tracks and Transformational Paths......Page 168
13 The Next Stage of Eco-travel: Facilitating Transformation through Personal Ethics......Page 186
PART VI: VOLUNTEER AND EDUCATIONAL TOURISM......Page 198
14 Acculturation, Re-entry and Transformation: the Story of a Volunteer Tourist......Page 200
15 Travel for Education: a Force for Peace and Cross-cultural Understanding?......Page 216
16 Doing Good for God’s Sake: the Role of Religion in Altruism. The Case of Volunteer Tourism......Page 229
Conclusion......Page 240
B......Page 246
C......Page 247
G......Page 248
M......Page 249
R......Page 250
S......Page 251
T......Page 252
W......Page 253
Y......Page 254

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