Tourism and culture in philosophical perspective / Marie-Élise Zovko, John Dillon, editors.
Zovko, Marie-Elise, 1959- editor.; Dillon, John M., editor.
2023
G156.5.H47
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Title Tourism and culture in philosophical perspective / Marie-Élise Zovko, John Dillon, editors.
ISBN 9783031366598 (electronic bk.)
303136659X (electronic bk.)
3031366581
9783031366581
DOI https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36659-8
Published Cham : Springer, [2023]
Copyright ©2023
Language English
Description 1 online resource (xii, 295 pages) : illustrations
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1007/978-3-031-36659-8 doi
Call Number G156.5.H47
Dewey Decimal Classification 338.4/791
Summary This book offers a philosophical approach to tourism as a permanent factor in the lifestyle, economy, and culture of the contemporary global community. Travel to well-known destinations and pursuit of an ever-increasing range of leisure activities are an aspiration of most humans today. Those not themselves engaged in tourist activities are quite often involved in providing the goods and services which make tourism possible. Yet the ill effects of mass tourism and overtourism on sensitive ecosystems, resources, and community life have begun to outweigh economic gains, threatening to destroy destinations, cultural heritage, and livelihoods. The editors and contributors of this collection reflect on the nature and meaning of tourism, its history, elements, and forms, the roles of tourist and host, the limits of hospitality, tendencies to excess and the reasons why we engage in such forms of behaviour, and the place of tourism in human culture as a whole. By shedding light on these questions, more efficacious solutions to the urgent problems raised by the practice of tourism can be found. This work is a must-read for scholars, teachers, and students engaged in study and research on philosophy of culture, philosophical anthropology, tourist and destination management, human factors engineering, and sustainability.
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Dillon, John M., editor.
Available in Other Form TOURISM AND CULTURE IN PHILOSOPHICAL PERSPECTIVE.
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Part 1: Introduction
1 Philosophical Issues in Tourism
Part 2: Truth: Reality, Knowledge and Disciplines
2 Who is a Tourist? Conceptual and Theoretical Developments
3 What is Tourism? Definitions, Theoretical Phases and Principles
4 Epistemology, Ontology and Tourism
5 Post-disciplinary Tourism
6 The End of Tourism? Nomadology and the Mobilities Paradigm
Part 3: Beauty: Well-being, Aesthetics and Art
7 Tourism and Restoration
8 Aesthetic Pleasures: Contemplating Spiritual Tourism
9 Nature, Beauty and Tourism
10 Tourism and the Aesthetics of the Built Environment
11 Tourism and the Arts
Part 4: Virtue: Ethics, Values and The Good Life
12 Ethics and Tourism
13 Good Actions in Tourism
14 Against Ethical Tourism
15 Development and its Discontents: Ego-tripping Without Ethics or Idea(l)s
16 Transmodernity: Remaking Our (Tourism) World?.

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