Slow Tourism: Experiences and Mobilities

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Simone Fullagar, Kevin Markwell, Erica Wilson
Channel View Publications, 2012 - Business & Economics - 233 pages
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 international case studies, the book explores how slow tourism encapsulates a range of lifestyle practices, mobilities and ethics.
 

Contents

Thinking Through Slow Mobilities and Experiences
1
Part 1 Positioning Slow Tourism
9
Part 2 Slow Food and Sustainable Tourism
52
Part 3 Slow Mobilities
97
Part 4 Slow Tourism Places
156
17 Reflecting Upon Slow Travel and Tourism Experiences
227
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About the author (2012)

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 a cultural geographer whose research interests focus on the contributions that nature-based/eco/wildlife tourism make as tools for nature conservation. He is Associate Professor in the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Southern Cross University, NSW, Australia and is also Adjunct Associate Professor in Tourism at Divine Word University, Madang, Papua New Guinea.
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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