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At a time when global events reshape our world, this book confronts the critical challenges and opportunities facing tourism studies. Through diverse perspectives from seasoned scholars across the globe, the chapters in this book examine the field's inherent vulnerabilities while illuminating viable paths forward.
This anthology challenges both emerging and established researchers to break free from conventional thinking and explore tourism's untapped potential. Contributors draw from their rich career experiences and varied cultural contexts to:
Question traditional tourism practices
Navigate the intersection of tourism with posthuman awareness
Identify key vulnerabilities in current tourism scholarship
Propose innovative frameworks for future research
More than a mere academic exercise, this collection serves as a rallying cry for meaningful change in tourism scholarship. By carefully examining both the fragilities and strengths within the field, the authors chart a course toward more robust, sustainable, and thoughtful tourism futures.
Perfect for scholars, practitioners, and students alike, this volume offers fresh insights into reimagining tourism's role in our rapidly evolving world. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Tourism Recreation Research.
Contents
Introduction: Vulnerabilities in tourism scholarship - scholars' plea for a viable future 1. Tourism studies and the changing research ecosystem 2. Rethinking or reinventing tourism? Exposing the ontological and epistemological conflicts in tourism studies literature during the COVID-19 pandemic 3. Free time as a central issue of tourism studies: a genealogy of leisure/idleness based on the indigenous cosmovisions of Latin America 4. Kinmaking: toward more-than-tourism (studies) 5. Is an axiological turn viable for tourism studies? Reinvestigating the Platforms model 6. Studying tourism means going to have a look for yourself: co-research, vulnerabilities and opportunities after the pandemic 7. Religion, spirituality, and the formation of tourism knowledge 8. Economies of attention and the design of viable tourism futures 9. The 'misplaced' vulnerability of tourism studies: towards a relational ontology, epistemological pluralism and affirmative ethics 10. Complementarity: bridging the tourism academic/religion divide
