Slow Tourism: Experiences and Mobilities (Aspects of Tourism) - Softcover

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ISBN 10: 184541280X ISBN 13: 9781845412807

Verlag: Channel View Publications, 2012

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This book examines the emerging phenomenon of slow tourism, addressing growing consumer concerns with quality leisure time, environmental and cultural sustainability, as well as the embodied experience of place. Drawing on a range of case studies, it explores how slow tourism encapsulates a range of lifestyle practices, mobilities and ethics.

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Simone Fullagar is an interdisciplinary sociologist who has published widely across the areas of health, leisure and tourism, using post-structuralist and feminist perspectives. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management at Griffith University, Queensland, Australia.

Kevin Markwell is Associate Professor at the School of Business and Tourism, Southern Cross University, Australia. His research focuses on human-animal studies, tourist-nature relationships, wildlife tourism and gay tourism.

Erica Wilson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Southern Cross University. Erica teaches in the areas of sustainable tourism and special interest tourism, and her research publications reflect her scholarly interests in women's travel and adventure, work-life balance, sustainable tourism and critical approaches to tourism research.

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Slow Tourism

Experiences and Mobilities

By Simone Fullagar, Kevin Markwell, Erica Wilson

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Copyright © 2012 Simone Fullagar, Kevin Markwell, Erica Wilson and the authors of individual chapters
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ISBN: 978-1-84541-280-7

Contents

Acknowledgements, 
Contributors, 
1 Starting Slow: Thinking Through Slow Mobilities and Experiences Simone Fullagar, Erica Wilson and Kevin Markwell, 
Part 1: Positioning Slow Tourism, 
2 Speeding Up and Slowing Down: Pilgrimage and Slow Travel Through Time Christopher Howard, 
3 On the Periphery of Pleasure: Hedonics, Eudaimonics and Slow Travel Kevin Moore, 
4 Slow'n Down the Town to Let Nature Grow: Ecotourism, Social Justice and Sustainability Stephen Wearing, Michael Wearing and Matthew McDonald, 
Part 2: Slow Food and Sustainable Tourism, 
5 The Contradictions and Paradoxes of Slow Food: Environmental Change, Sustainability and the Conservation of Taste C. Michael Hall, 
6 Eat Your Way through Culture: Gastronomic Tourism as Performance and Bodily Experience Fabio Parasecoli and Paulo de Abreu e Lima, 
7 'Make Haste Slowly': Environmental Sustainability and Willing Workers on Organic Farms Margo B. Lipman and Laurie Murphy, 
Part 3: Slow Mobilities, 
8 Gendered Cultures of Slow Travel: Women's Cycle Touring as an Alternative Hedonism Simone Fullagar, 
9 Wandering Australia: Independent Travellers and Slow Journeys Through Time and Space Marg Tiyce and Erica Wilson, 
10 Alternative Mobility Cultures and the Resurgence of Hitch-hiking Michael O'Regan, 
11 'If You're Making Waves Then You Have to Slow Down': Slow Tourism and Canals Julia Fallon, 
Part 4: Slow Tourism Places, 
12 Travellin' Around On Yukon Time in Canada's North Suzanne de la Barre, 
13 'Fast Japan, Slow Japan': Shifting to Slow Tourism as a Rural Regeneration Tool in Japan Meiko Murayama and Gavin Parker, 
14 Tribe Tourism: A Case Study of the Tribewanted Project on Vorovoro, Fiji Dawn Gibson, Stephen Pratt and Apisalome Movono, 
15 Slow Tourism Initiatives: An Exploratory Study of Dutch Lifestyles Entrepreneurs in France Esther Groenendaal, 
16 Slow Travel and Indian Culture: Philosophical and Practical Aspects Sagar Singh, 
17 Reflecting Upon Slow Travel and Tourism Experiences Kevin Markwell, Simone Fullagar and Erica Wilson, 

CHAPTER 1

Starting Slow: Thinking Through Slow Mobilities and Experiences

Simone Fullagar, Erica Wilson and Kevin Markwell

Slow food, slow cities, slow living, slow money, slow media, slow parenting, slow scholarship and ... slow travel. It seems that wherever we look, the prefix 'slow' is being added to another sector, phenomenon or industry. Being slow was once an entirely derogatory term that signified one's inability to 'keep up' in the competitive spheres of work and leisure. Yet curiously, the meaning of slow is now starting to shift, as slowness today is invoked as a credible metaphor for stepping off the treadmill, seeking work–life balance or refusing the dominant logic of speed. Slowing down has become an antidote to the fast paced imperatives of global capitalism that urge the entrepreneurial self to speed up, become mobile and work harder in order to be valued as successful, productive and conspicuous consumers (Humphrey, 2010; Rose, 1999; Schor, 2010).

One only has to glance at recent television programming to note the increased interest in slow and alternative forms of travel. In addition to programmes detailing travellers trekking over vast landscapes, there has also been a proliferation of shows documenting intercontinental travels via vehicle. The most popular perhaps are Long Way Down (2007) and Long Way Round (2004), which follow celebrities Ewan McGregor and Charlie Boorman as they motorcycle over multiple continents engaging the locals at every opportunity.

Another indication of consolidation of this phenomenon is observed through the products and the services that are now available under the banner of slow tourism. Several websites make claim to the phenomenon offering 'slow travel' experiences, ranging from fully booked tours to long-stay accommodation. In addition, there is a range of full length slow travel guide books titled for different cities around the world, which state 'The Slow Guides are for anybody who wants to slow down and live it up. They celebrate all that's local, natural, traditional, sensory and most of all gratifying about living in each of these corners of the world' (Slow Guides, n.d.). Clearly, for those fed up with fast, the goals of slow are to explore the possibilities of being different, working differently, playing differently and, in the context of travel in particular, moving differently.

In this book, we ask: what do slow mobilities mean for tourism? What effects do slow mobilities have and how do they evoke different ways of engaging with people and place? And, how are we also 'moved' by slow travel experiences in ways that lead us to question, connect with and desire to know the world differently? This book arose from our shared interest in thinking 'through' the multiplicity of experiences and representations of slow travel. In both our personal and professional lives, each of us has strived – and continues to strive – to maintain a sense of slow, whether it be through a choice of rural and alternative lifestyles, installing solar panels, growing our own vegetable gardens, going part-time to look after young children, or trying to eat and travel in a more sustainable manner. We also yearn for a sense of slow scholarship, as we continue to question our roles and privileges in the knowledge production system that has become higher education. We wanted to embrace a critical ethos that questioned the unsustainable pace of consumerism, the demands of work and the desire for alternative mobilities (Fullagar, 2003; Humphrey, 2010; Sheller & Urry, 2006; Urry, 2002).

In this introductory chapter, we consider how 'slow mobilities' figure within the historical emergence of the slow living movement as a constellation of diverse ideas and cultural forms relating to food, cities, money, media and travel (Cresswell, 2010; Dickinson & Lumsdon, 2010; Honoré, 2005; Parkins & Craig, 2006; Tasch, 2008). With our focus on the experiences of travel and tourism we understand slow mobilities in Cresswell's sense as 'particular patterns of movement, representations of movement, and ways of practising movement that make sense together' (2010: 18). Slow ideas are permeating the contemporary tourism imaginary, eliciting a range of nostalgic and future oriented desires for local/global connectedness, low carbon options and journeys that value embodied experiences of time. A plethora of slow travel narratives, images and discourses now circulate globally through the popular press, travel blogs and magazines, as well as guidebooks, marketing for tours and destinations (see Funnell, 2010; Germann Molz, 2009; Sawday, 2009, 2010).

Slow tourism has been the focus of recent discussion in the tourism literature about how to conceptualise 'slow' in relation to the principles of sustainable tourism, as well as how to identify the range of slow practices, motivations and supply issues (infrastructure, regulation and markets) for tourism development (Dickinson & Lumsdon, 2010; Dickinson et al., 2010; Hall, 2009; Lumsdon & McGrath, 2010). Lumsdon and McGrath's research has identified some parameters around slow tourism in terms of...

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Channel View Publications
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2012
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN 10: 184541280X
• ISBN 13: 9781845412807
• Einband: Taschenbuch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 248
• Herausgeber: Fullagar Simone, Markwell Kevin, Wilson Erica
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar
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