Critical Debates in Tourism

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Preface Introduction - Tej Vir Singh 1. Mass Tourism and Sustainability: Can the Two Meet? 1.1 Towards Sustainable Mass Tourism: Paradigm Shift or Paradigm Nudge? - David Weaver 1.2 Is Mass Tourism Serious About Sustainability? - Ralf Buckley 1.3 Sustainable Mass Tourism: More Smudge than Nudge the Canard Continues - Brian Wheeller 1.4 Critical and Normative Responses to Sustainable Tourism - Bill Bramwell 2. Consumerism and Tourism: Are They Cousins? 2.1 Does Consumerism Necessarily Promote Bad Tourism? - Richard Sharpley 2.2 Consumerism, Tourism and Voluntary Simplicity: We all have to Consume, but do we really have to Travel so Much to be Happy? - C. Michael Hall 2.3 Not All Consumerism has Shady Side - Joan C. Henderson 3. Is Small Tourism Beautiful? 3.1 Tourism: Is Small Beautiful? - David Harrison 3.2 Small can be Beautiful, but big can be Beautiful too - and Complementary: Towards Mass Tourism/Alternative Tourism Synergy - David Weaver 3.3 Small is Beautiful: Size can be Important - Richard Butler 4. Does Community Participation Empower Local People? 4.1 The Mantra of 'Community Participation' in Context - Jim Butcher 4.2 Community-based Tourism as Strategic Dead-end - David Weaver 4.3 Community Participation - In Need of a Fresh Perspective - Shalini Singh 5. Does Tourism Reduce Poverty? 5.1 Pro-Poor Tourism: Is There Value Beyond the Rhetoric? - Regina Scheyvens 5.2 Pro-Poor Tourism: Is There Actually Much Rhetoric?And, if so, Whose? - Dorothea Meyer 5.3 Pro-poor Tourism: Is there Value Beyond 'Whose' Rhetoric? - David Harrison 5.4 Pro-Poor Tourism: Climate Change and Sustainable Development - Paul Peeters 6. Volunteer Tourism: Is it Benign? 6.1 Volunteer Tourism: As Good as it Seems - Daniel Guttentag 6.2 Volunteer Tourism: May not be as Good as it Seems - Jim Butcher 6.3 Volunteer Tourism: Looking Forward - Eliza Raymond 7. Tourism and Welfare: Seeking Symbiosis 7.1 The Tourism Industry's Welfare Responsibilities: An Adequate Response? - Derek Hall and Frances Brown 7.2 'Ethical' Travel and Well-being: Reposing the Issue - Jim Butcher 7.3 Tourism Ethics Needs More Than a Surface Approach - David Fennell 7.4 Tourism and Welfare: A Good Idea and a Pious Hope - Carson. L. Jenkins 8. Tourism Education: Quo Vadis? 8.1 Contemporary Tourism Education: Notes from the Frontline - Chris Cooper 8.2 The Cost of Everything and the Value of Nothing - Brian Wheeller 8.3 Innovate or Deteriorate - Moving Tourism Education into the 21st Century - Lisa Ruhanen 9. Post Colonialism: Academic Responsibility? 9.1 'Post-colonialism', Responsibility and Tourism Academics: Where's the Connection - Derek Hall and Frances Brown 9.2 Academic Capitalism, Academic Responsibility and Tourism Academics: or, the Silence of the Lambs? - C. Michael Hall 9.3 Towards an Ethics of Responsibility in Tourism Education - Erik Cohen 10. The Dilemma of Authenticity and In-authenticity 10.1 'Authenticity' in Tourism Studies: Apres la Lutte - Erik Cohen 10.2 Staged Authenticity: A Grande idee? - Kjell Olsen 10.3 Persisting with Authenticity: Gleaning Contemporary Insights for Future Tourism Studies - Philip L. Pearce 11. Heritage Tourism: Heritage Tourists 11.1 Do Tourists Destroy the Heritage They Have Come to Experience? - Gregory J. Ashworth 11.2 Heritage Tourists: Responsible, (f)or What? - Brian Wheeller 11.3 Tourists and Heritage: All Things Must Come to Pass - C. Michael Hall 12. Nature Based Tourism: There is Lot in the Name 12.1 What's in a Name? Conceptualizing Natural Resource-Based Tourism - David Fennell 12.2 Nature-Based Tourism in Breadth and Depth - Ralf Buckley and Alexandra Coghlan 12.3 Ecotourism and Nature-Based Tourism: What's Beyond the Names and Labels? - Betty Weiler 13. Tourism and Climate Change: A Need for Critical Analysis 13.1 Tourism and Climate Change: Knowledge Gaps and Issues - C. Michael Hall 13.2 Climate Change: Beyond the Hype - Susanne Becken 13.3 Climate Change: Tourism Destination Dynamics - Ralf Buckley 13.4 Climate Change and Tourism: Time for Critical Reflection - Daniel Scott 14. Slow Tourism: Back to Bullock Cart Days! 14.1 Are Slow Travel and Slow Tourism Misfits, Compadres or Different Genres? - Dennis Conway and Benjamin F Timms 14.2 Advocating and Implementing Slow Tourism - Alison Caffyn 14.3 Questioning Slow As Sustainable - Rachel Dodds Conclusion - Tej Vir Singh