Slow Tourism : : Experiences and Mobilities / / ed. by Simone Fullagar, Kevin Markwell, Erica Wilson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CVP eBook-Package Backfile 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Barre, Suzanne de la,; Fallon, Julia,; Fullagar, Simone,; Gibson, Dawn,; Groenendaal, Esther,; Hall, C. Michael,; Howard, Christopher,; Lima, Paulo de Abreu e,; Lipman, Margo B.,; Markwell, Kevin,; McDonald, Matthew,; Moore, Kevin,; Movono, Apisalome,; Murayama, Meiko,; Murphy, Laurie,; O'Regan, Michael,; Parasecoli, Fabio,; Parker, Gavin,; Pratt, Stephen,; Singh, Sagar,; Tiyce, Marg,; Wearing, Michael,; Wearing, Stephen,; Wilson, Erica,
• HerausgeberIn: Fullagar, Simone,; Markwell, Kevin,; Wilson, Erica,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol, UK;, Blue Ridge Summit, PA : : Channel View Publications, , [2012]; ©2012
• Year of Publication: 2012
• Language: English
• Series: Aspects of Tourism ; 54
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (248 p.)

Bringing together scholars from the areas of tourism, leisure and cultural studies, eco-humanities and tourism management, this book examines the emerging phenomenon of slow tourism. The book explores the range of travel experiences that are part of growing consumer concerns with quality leisure time, environmental and cultural sustainability, as well as the embodied experience of place. Slow tourism encapsulates a range of lifestyle practices, mobilities and ethics that are connected to social movements such as slow food and cities, as well as specialist sectors such as ecotourism and voluntourism. The slow experience of temporality can evoke and incite different ways of being and moving, as well as different logics of desire that value travel experiences as forms of knowledge. Slow travel practices reflect a range of ethical-political positions that have yet to be critically explored in the academic literature despite the growth of industry discourse.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1.Starting Slow: Thinking Through Slow Mobilities and Experiences -- Part 1. Positioning Slow Tourism -- 2. Speeding Up and Slowing Down: Pilgrimage and Slow Travel Through Time -- 3. On the Periphery of Pleasure: Hedonics, Eudaimonics and Slow Travel -- 4. Slow'n Down the Town to Let Nature Grow: Ecotourism, Social Justice and Sustainability -- Part 2. Slow Food and Sustainable Tourism -- 5. The Contradictions and Paradoxes of Slow Food: Environmental Change, Sustainability and the Conservation of Taste -- 6. Eat Your Way through Culture: Gastronomic Tourism as Performance and Bodily Experience -- 7. 'Make Haste Slowly': Environmental Sustainability and Willing Workers on Organic Farms -- Part 3. Slow Mobilities -- 8. Gendered Cultures of Slow Travel: Women's Cycle Touring as an Alternative Hedonism -- 9. Wandering Australia: Independent Travellers and Slow Journeys Through Time and Space -- 10. Alternative Mobility Cultures and the Resurgence of Hitch-hiking -- 11. 'If You're Making Waves Then You Have to Slow Down': Slow Tourism and Canals -- Part 4. Slow Tourism Places -- 12. Travellin' Around On Yukon Time in Canada's North -- 13. 'Fast Japan, Slow Japan': Shifting to Slow Tourism as a Rural Regeneration Tool in Japan -- 14. Tribe Tourism: A Case Study of the Tribewanted Project on Vorovoro, Fiji -- 15. Slow Tourism Initiatives: An Exploratory Study of Dutch Lifestyles Entrepreneurs in France -- 16. Slow Travel and Indian Culture: Philosophical and Practical Aspects -- 17. Reflecting Upon Slow Travel and Tourism Experiences