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Journal Article: Crouch, I. G. (1994). The study of international tourism demand: A review of findings. Journal of Travel Research, 33(1), 12–23.
Book: Witt, E. S., & Witt, C. A. (1992). Modeling and forecasting in tourism. London: Academic Press.
Book chapter in edited book: Frechtling, C. D. (1994). Assessing the impacts of travel and tourism: Measuring economic benefits. In J. R. Brent Ritchie & C. R. Goeldner (Eds.), Travel, tourism, and hospitality research (2nd ed., pp. 367–391). New York: John Wiley & Sons.
Internet Source: Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development. (2009). The impact of culture on tourism. Retrieved from http://www.oecdbookshop.org

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Volume 20, Numbers 2–3

Introduction: Critical Thinking in Tourism Studies – 59
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3727/109830420X15894802540133

Rodanthi Tzanelli* and Maximiliano Korstanje†

*School of Sociology & Social Policy, University of Leeds, UK
†Department of Economics, University of Palermo, Buenos Aires, Argentina

In our introduction to the special issue we attempt to reflect on the plurality and development of critical argumentation in tourism analysis. First, we adopt a “genealogical” approach to the parallel birth of critical thinking in early 20th century European social sciences and critical–institutional elaboration of the “tourist” and “tourism” as contemporary phenomena. These interlaced histories of social thought are examined as “attitudes” towards the grand project of modernity, and divided into “soft” and contemplative, and “hard” or activist. We argue that these scholarly attitudes-as-projects organized groups of tourism theorists, passionate for the discussion of similar problems. The same groups would subsequently develop variations of criticality into more coherent “paradigms.” In more recent decades these protoparadigms came to interrogate the basic tenets of business ethics, as well as the moral core of activities such as tourism and hospitality in more fulsome paradigmatic registers and vocabularies. From there, we proceed to present the organizational rationale of our eclectic collection of contributions to this special issue. Organized under the principles and axioms of Keith Hollinhead’s “worldmaking,” and the development of critical tourism paradigms, the articles discuss four themes: (a) postcoloniality and tourism, (b) biopolitics and tourism, (c) media representations, social identities, and tourism, and (d) cultural industries and tourism.

Key words: Aesthetics; Critical theory; Ethics; Justice; Tourism; Worldmaking

Legitimacy, Authenticity, and Authority in Brazilian Quilombo Tourism: Critical Reflexive Practice Among Cultural Experts – 71
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3727/109830420X15894802540142

Carla Guerrón Montero

Department of Anthropology, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, USA

Using a critical tourism studies framework, I discuss the participation of “cultural experts” (anthropologists, historians, and cultural heritage professionals) in the production of legitimacy, authenticity, and sovereignty of Brazilian quilombos. Quilombos are defined as communities composed of peoples of African, indigenous, and European descent, who constructed independent societies outside the plantation system. I address the process of cultural experts whose individual, institutional, and interdisciplinary identities are intertwined with power–knowledge relations in both academic and applied contexts. I focus on the role of these professionals in two main issues: 1) the debate over conceptualizing and identifying quilombos; and 2) the legitimation of quilombo cultural heritage for tourism purposes. Through this discussion, I aim to problematize scholarly reflexivity, which has permeated anthropological and social sciences debates since the 1990s and critical tourism studies debates since the 2000s.

Key words: Brazil; Quilombo; Critical tourism studies; Legitimacy; Authenticity; Cultural experts

“Children That Are Cute Enough to Eat”: The Commodification of Children in Volunteering Vacations to Orphanages and Childcare Establishments in Siem Reap, Cambodia – 83
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3727/109830420X15894802540151

P. Jane Reas

Teacher Education, University Centre Hastings, East Sussex, UK

That the volunteer tourism industry in Cambodia is now considered to be fueling the demand for “orphans” in towns like Siem Reap requires that academia continues to apply a broad range of critical perspectives to the examination of this popular tourist trend. Here I add to the growing body of criticality by framing around the question of just “what” is being consumed in these popular vacations. It was during a 6-week period as a volunteer tourist in an orphanage in the town that my curiosity and unease compelled me to ask: “what is going on here?” This article is based on the subsequent research project examining the volunteer tourist experience in orphanages and children’s care centers in Siem Reap and draws on interviews with individuals considering a volunteering vacation, volunteers in situ, and vacation returners, as well as an extensive examination of grey literature. Critically examined through the lens of consumerism and an understanding of the pleasure-seeking motives inherent in consumer decisions, volunteer tourism is recognized as a contemporary consumer commodity, but significantly one that involves personhood. Commodification and objectification of people and bodies are familiar concepts in the tourism literature. I discuss how, when examined using these concepts, the role that these processes play in making the bodies of poor children available to the volunteer tourist market is made evidently visible. I also discuss how, through the trope of eating, poor children in orphanages are objectified as “morsels of exotic otherness,” evoking a provocative concept of “consumerism.” I conclude that critical analysis shows that there is significantly more to these helpful vacations than their often taken-for-granted positive depiction and argue that sentimentality can detract from the real processes that are operating in this popular vacation trend.

Key words: Volunteer tourism; Orphanages; Cambodia; Commodification; Consumerism

Place, Labor, and (Im)Mobilities: Tourism and Biopolitics – 95
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3727/109830420X15894802540160

Dominic Lapointe and Myra Coulter

Département d’études urbaines et touristiques, École des sciences de la gestion, Université du Québec à Montréal, Montréal, Canada

Contemporary tourism is omnipresent in development discourses and policies, functioning as a “worldmaking” force in which tourism activities provide a representation and storyline that influence the tourist and their behavior, thus becoming a form of social production. Justifying the inclusion of biopolitics as a response to the questions raised by the worldmaking tenet, this article aims to set the concept of biopolitics as the articulation between dominant structures and agency. As contemporary social life and the reproduction of society are integrated into the scope of market capitalism, and the state exerts its role as protector of the “free” market, biopolitics functions through the internalization of the rules of conduct by individuals, as well as through the economic integration of previously noneconomic spheres. Conducting a systematic literature review to expose the presence of the biopolitical lens in tourism research reveals the relevance of pursuing critical and unconventional research strategies. A diverse yet limited corpus of texts has developed in the context of the persistence and pervasiveness of both biopolitics and tourism in complex and uneven global social, political, and spatiotemporal systems and networks, highlighting new theoretical constellations rooted primarily in Foucauldian biopolitics. This essay uncovers a powerful entanglement of nonlinear and multiscalar tourism elements, and calls for ambitiously undertaking tourism research to address tourism discourses, structures, and practices in place and society.

Key words: Biopolitics; Biopower; Worldmaking; Foucault; Placemaking; Mobilities

The “Vagabond” as a Nemesis of the Tourist: Toward a Postcolonial Critique of Zygmunt Bauman – 107
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3727/109830420X15894802540179

Avishek Ray

Department of Humanities & Social Sciences, National Institute of Technology Silchar, Cachar, Assam, India

Zygmunt Bauman invokes the trope of vagrancy, wherein the “vagabonds” are squarely juxtaposed with the “tourists” who are, in sum, the global elite. For him, there are no vagabonds, they are only forced to be. This article questions Bauman’s classificatory categories, his dualistic views, and the explanatory apparatus of the “voluntary-versus-involuntary travel.” If “vagabond” de facto means involuntary traveler, where in Bauman’s schema are we going to place those itinerants—particularly, in the context of South Asia—who self-assert, and quite eloquently so, to be “vagabonds”? Using India as a case study, this article demonstrates how the trope of the vagabond has been perpetually leveraged—by certain political dissenters—to articulate a nonroutinized, noninstrumental, rhizomatic-style traveling, and by extension, political dissidence in the face of statist techniques of demographic control. Thinking in these terms, the imagination of vagabonds as volition-stripped travelers can be assumed to be a product of the Western value system (that uses the utility-maximized “tourists” as the prototype of traveler), which anyway cannot be universalized. This article, from a postcolonial vantage point, argues that Bauman’s differentiation of the category “vagabond” has no resonance in India.

Key words: Zygmunt Bauman; India; Postcolonialism; Hybridity; Nomadology; Vagabond and tourist

The Worldmaking Agency of the Sri Lankan Travel Blogger – 117
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3727/109830420X15894802540197

Gauthami Kamalika Jayathilaka

School of Sociology and Social Policy, University of Leeds, Leeds, UK

This article presents a scrutiny of the powerful “worldmaking” role performed by English language travel writers in the context of Sri Lanka. It critically positions travel representations as a crucial means of knowledge production that shapes the way Sri Lanka is known and experienced. In that, it examines an emerging version of the country produced by young Sri Lankan travel bloggers through their employment of an “activist gaze” alongside the use of a “promotional gaze” by professional tourism writers. The article illuminates each of these distinctive worldmaking roles; the latter engaging the authority of tourism in constructing/perpetuating a particular favored version of the country to persuade the global tourist, and the former’s “aware” agency in constructing a potential or alternative representation distinctive from the first. However, surpassing an exploration of representations and their worldmaking power, the article sheds light on the way writers are inculcated into certain standpoints and their negotiation of these through the employment of the Bourdieusian concepts of habitus, capital, and field. As such, it innovatively combines structure and agency in the study of tourism representations, unveiling the social implications underlying worldmaking and thereby elucidating the critical link between the English language, travel writing and social class in an understudied postcolonial context of South Asia.

Key words: Worldmaking; Travel writing; Tourist agency; Tourist gaze; Social class; Sri Lanka

Where Have all the People Gone?: A Multimodal Critical Discourse Study of the Representation of People in Promotional Tourism Discourse – 129
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3727/109830420X15894802540205

Ekaterina Ignatova

Department of Linguistics and English Language, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK

This article critically analyzes how tourists and hosts are represented verbally and visually in a travel brochure about Russia and what power relations might such representation shape. The interaction between hosts and tourists, one of the essential aspects of tourism, provides an opportunity to get acquainted with the sociocultural context of other nations, thus improving international relations. Russia is sometimes regarded as an unfriendly or unsafe travel destination and the Russian Government aims at increasing the popularity of the country among international tourists. However, there are concerns that promotional tourism discourse contributes to shaping asymmetrical power relations between tourists and locals and jeopardizes hospitality. While a number of researchers have examined the representation of people in tourism discourse, most of these studies have only considered the representation of hosts. Moreover, despite indications that various destinations can be represented differently, there is a lack of studies analyzing the representation of people in tourism discourse about Russia. To address this research gap, I conduct a multimodal critical discourse analysis and look at how hosts and tourists are represented in the 2018 Russia Travel Brochure. This approach allows revealing power relations and ideologies expressed in a text by various semiotic resources, such as language, images, typography, and layout. The results support previous findings that by foregrounding material tourist attractions and excluding hosts or representing them mostly as servants or performers, promotional tourism discourse downplays the role of locals in hospitality and contributes to shaping asymmetrical power relations between tourists and hosts. However, I argue that tourists can also be excluded from promotional tourism discourse about Russia or represented as a featureless group, thus establishing an asymmetrical power relationship between the tour operator and tourists. Visual and verbal representation of tourists and locals as diverse individual identities might contribute to maintaining balanced power relations.

Key words: Tourism; Multimodality; Representations; Tourism discourse; Host–tourist relationship; Multimodal critical discourse analysis

Rest in Fame: Celebrity Tourism in Hollywood Cemeteries – 141
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3727/109830420X15894802540214

Marta Soligo and David R. Dickens

Department of Sociology, University of Nevada, Las Vegas, NV, USA

This research is a critical study of tourism at four cemeteries in the Los Angeles area between 2013 and 2019: Hollywood Forever, Forest Lawn in Glendale, Forest Lawn in Hollywood, and Pierce Brothers Westwood Village Memorial Park Cemetery. We examined these venues through the lens of celebrity tourism, since they are known as “Hollywood memorial parks,” hosting the graves of some of the most famous stars in the world. Through participant observation, informal conversations, and content analysis of texts we aimed to understand how the relationship between these venues and the entertainment industry works as a “pull factor” for tourists. Our data collection and analysis led to three main findings. Firstly, we identified the motivations behind the increasing number of tourists who add Los Angeles cemeteries to their must-see list. Although scholars often define cemeteries as dark tourism destinations, our investigation shows that Hollywood memorial parks are more related to celebrity tourism. Secondly, employing the notion of “cult of celebrity,” we described how the experience of tourists visiting their favorite celebrity’s grave can be seen as a modern pilgrimage centered on a collective experience. Thirdly, we analyzed the cemetery as a commodity in which executives work to promote the site as the perfect location where one can spend the “eternal life.” In this sense, we also investigated how memorial parks are often used as venues for cultural events, attracting a large number of tourists. As described in the findings section, initiatives such as movie screenings and guided tours transform cemeteries into much more than just peaceful places where to honor the dead, becoming venues for both commodification and spectacle.

Key words: Celebrity culture; Hollywood; Dark tourism; Tourism; Cemeteries; Critical theory

Putting Faith in Vinyl, Real Ale, and Live Music: A Case Study of the Limits of Tourism Policy and a Critical Analysis of New Leisure Spaces in a Northern English Town – 151
DOI: https://doi.org/10.3727/109830420X15894802540223

Karl Spracklen* and Dave Robinson†

*Leeds School of Social Sciences, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK
†Leeds School of Arts, Leeds Beckett University, Leeds, UK

Skipton, on the edge of the Yorkshire Dales National Park, is an old mill town that has seen tourists flocking to it since the arrival of the railway in the 19th century. Like many other old mill towns in northern England, Skipton has lost those mills-as-factories and the workers in them—and has struggled to retain a sustainable local economy. At the same time, Skipton has become increasingly gentrified, and has become a focus for day visitors and tourists attracted by the beautiful countryside seen when Le Tour de France came through Yorkshire in 2014. In this article, we explore the area of Skipton, dubbed the Canal Quarter. We focus on the leisure spaces that have opened there as attempts to construct alternative, authentic experiences around the consumption of real ale, the performance of live music, and the curation of second-hand vinyl records. We have previously explored how these might be shown to be a space for Habermasian rationality. In this sequel, we use critical theory to show how the alternative, authentic space of vinyl, real ale, and live music has already been compromised by two conflicting hegemonic powers: the cooption of leisure into the economics of tourism and tourism policy, and the meaninglessness of cool capitalism and Bauman’s consumer society.

Key words: Authenticity; Drinking; Hipsters; Leisure; Tourism; Yorkshire

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