Slow tourism : experiences and mobilities / edited by Simone Fullagar, Kevin Markwell and Erica Wilson.
Material type: TextSeries: Aspects of tourism ; 54.Publisher: Bristol ; Buffalo : Channel View Publications, [2012]Copyright date: ©2012Description: xiv, 233 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cmContent type:- text
- unmediated
- volume
- 1845412818
- 9781845412814
- 184541280X
- 9781845412807
- 306.4819 23
- G155.A1 S5625 2012
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Includes bibliographical references.
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.
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