Slow Tourism: Experiences and Mobilities

244 Pages·2012·1.447 MB·English

by  Simone Fullagar, Kevin W. Markwell, Erica Wilson

Slow Tourism
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Slow Tourism
Experiences and Mobilities
Edited by
Simone Fullagar, Kevin Markwell
and Erica Wilson
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Slow Tourism: Experiences and Mobilities/Edited by Simone Fullagar, Kevin Markwell
and Erica Wilson.
Aspects of Tourism: 54
Includes bibliographical references.
1. Tourism--Psychological aspects. 2. Social movements. I. Fullagar, Simone.
II. Markwell, Kevin. III. Wilson, Erica.
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Contents
Acknowledgements vii
Contributors ix
1 Starting Slow: Thinking Through Slow Mobilities and Experiences 1
Simone Fullagar, Erica Wilson and Kevin Markwell
Part 1: Positioning Slow Tourism
2 S peeding Up and Slowing Down: Pilgrimage and Slow Travel
Through Time 11
Christopher Howard
3 O n the Periphery of Pleasure: Hedonics, Eudaimonics and
Slow Travel 25
Kevin Moore
4 S low’n Down the Town to Let Nature Grow: Ecotourism,
Social Justice and Sustainability 36
Stephen Wearing, Michael Wearing and Matthew McDonald
Part 2: Slow Food and Sustainable Tourism
5 T he Contradictions and Paradoxes of Slow Food: Environmental
Change, Sustainability and the Conservation of Taste 53
C. Michael Hall
6 E at Your Way through Culture: Gastronomic Tourism as
Performance and Bodily Experience 69
Fabio Parasecoli and Paulo de Abreu e Lima
7 ‘Make Haste Slowly’: Environmental Sustainability and
Willing Workers on Organic Farms 84
Margo B. Lipman and Laurie Murphy
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Part 3: Slow Mobilities
8 G endered Cultures of Slow Travel: Women’s Cycle Touring as an
Alternative Hedonism 99
Simone Fullagar
9 W andering Australia: Independent Travellers and Slow Journeys
Through Time and Space 113
Marg Tiyce and Erica Wilson
10 Alternative Mobility Cultures and the Resurgence of Hitch-hiking 128
Michael O’Regan
11 ‘If You’re Making Waves Then You Have to Slow Down’:
Slow Tourism and Canals 143
Julia Fallon
Part 4: Slow Tourism Places
12 Travellin’ Around On Yukon Time in Canada’s North 157
Suzanne de la Barre
13 ‘Fast Japan, Slow Japan’: Shifting to Slow Tourism as a Rural
Regeneration Tool in Japan 170
Meiko Murayama and Gavin Parker
14 Tribe Tourism: A Case Study of the Tribewanted Project on
Vorovoro, Fiji 185
Dawn Gibson, Stephen Pratt and Apisalome Movono
15 Slow Tourism Initiatives: An Exploratory Study of Dutch
Lifestyles Entrepreneurs in France 201
Esther Groenendaal
16 Slow Travel and Indian Culture: Philosophical and Practical
Aspects 214
Sagar Singh
17 Reflecting Upon Slow Travel and Tourism Experiences 227
Kevin Markwell, Simone Fullagar and Erica Wilson
Acknowledgements
The authors would like first and foremost to thank all of the contributors to
this book, who have provided such a diversity of perspectives on this fasci-
nating and complex thing called ‘slow tourism’. They have been a pleasure
to work with, and we appreciate their willingness to work quickly (ironi-
cally) to meet the tight timelines required for publication. Thank you also to
Elinor Robertson, and the team at Channel View, for supporting the develop-
ment of the slow mobilities book from the initial idea to final publication.
We would further like to acknowledge the research assistance of James
Catlin, and the editorial work on final drafts by Jean Martinez. Every rea-
sonable effort has been made to locate, contact and acknowledge copyright
owners. In relation to Chapter 12 we thank Dan Heringa Photography for
permission to use the image: Somewhere down there is your SOUL and
Natural Resources Canada for permission to use the map of Yukon courtesy
of the Atlas of Canada.
Simone would like to thank Adele Pavlidis for her research assistance on
the cycling project and the women participants who gave their time to the
research as they inspired the slow travel project. She would also like to
acknowledge the Griffith Centre for Cultural Research, Griffith University,
for seed funding that enabled the slow travel research and the Griffith
Business School for providing research leave. Finally, Simone would like to
thank her partner Gill for her support through the process and for embracing
the spirit of slow travel and living.
Both Kevin and Erica acknowledge the support of the School of Tourism
and Hospitality Management at Southern Cross University for providing
such an amiable and creative research culture which allows time for slow
when needed, and for recognising the importance of slow living outside of
work. Kevin thanks his partner Steve Harrison for his sustained and good
humoured support. Erica would particularly like to thank her partner Noah,
and her children Maya and Solomon, for continually reminding her of what
is most important in life, and for helping her to put slow living in practice.
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Entrance to Royal Botanical Gardens Cranbourne, Victoria, Australia
(E. Wilson)
Contributors
Editors
Simone Fullagar is an interdisciplinary sociologist who has published
widely across the areas of health, leisure and tourism, using post-s tructuralist
and feminist perspectives. She is Associate Professor in the Department of
Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management at Griffith University,
Queensland, Australia. Simone has completed several large ARC grant proj-
ects involving qualitative research into women’s recovery from depression
and the sociocultural context of youth suicide. She has also undertaken
research on the government of family leisure, healthy lifestyles and the poli-
tics of risk as well as new work on the rise of green lifestyles and slow travel.
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. In addition he is interested in understanding the ways
by which leisure practices can act as vehicles for the construction of gay
identities. 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,
PNG. His most recent book is Snake Bitten, Eric Worrell and the Australian
Reptile Park, co-authored with colleague, Nancy Cushing.
Erica Wilson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Tourism and Hospitality
Management at Southern Cross University. Her doctoral thesis was an inter-
pretive exploration into the constraints faced by Australian solo women trav-
ellers. Erica also holds a postgraduate diploma in environmental studies and
an honours degree in tourism administration. Erica teaches in the areas of
sustainable tourism and special interest tourism, and her research publica-
tions reflect her scholarly interests in women’s travel and adventure, work–
life balance, sustainable tourism and critical approaches to tourism research.
When she is not parenting or working, Erica enjoys living in a solar-powered,
rammed earth home that she and her partner built – very slowly – on their
property near Nimbin.
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