Slow Tourism

Experiences and Mobilities

Edited by Dr. Simone Fullagar, Kevin Markwell, Dr. Erica Wilson

Publication date:

23 March 2012

Publisher

Channel View Publications

Dimensions:

234x156mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9781845412814

Bringing together scholars from the areas of tourism, leisure and cultural studies, eco-humanities and tourism management, this book examines the emerging phenomenon of slow tourism. The book explores the range of travel experiences that are part of growing consumer concerns with quality leisure time, environmental and cultural sustainability, as well as the embodied experience of place. Slow tourism encapsulates a range of lifestyle practices, mobilities and ethics that are connected to social movements such as slow food and cities, as well as specialist sectors such as ecotourism and voluntourism. The slow experience of temporality can evoke and incite different ways of being and moving, as well as different logics of desire that value travel experiences as forms of knowledge. Slow travel practices reflect a range of ethical-political positions that have yet to be critically explored in the academic literature despite the growth of industry discourse.

Chapter 1: Starting Slow: Thinking Through Slow Mobilities and Experiences - Simone Fullagar, Kevin Markwell, Erica Wilson
Positioning Slow Tourism
Chapter 2: Speeding Up and Slowing Down: Pilgrimage and Slow Travel Through Time - Chris Howard
Chapter 3: On the Periphery of Pleasure: Hedonics, Eudaimonics and Slow Travel - Kevin Moore
Chapter 4: Slow’n Down the Town to Let Nature Grow: Ecotourism, Social Justice and Sustainability - Stephen Wearing, Michael Wearing and Matthew McDonald
Slow Food and Sustainable Tourism
Chapter 5: The Contradictions and Paradoxes of Slow Food: Environmental Change, Sustainability and the Conservation of Taste - C. Michael Hall
Chapter 6: Eat Your Way Through Culture: Gastronomic Tourism as Performance and Bodily Experience - Fabio Parasecoli and Paulo de Abreu e Lima
Chapter 7: “Make haste slowly”: Environmental Sustainability and Willing Workers on Organic Farms - Margo Lipman and Laurie Murphy
Slow Mobilities
Chapter 8: Gendered Cultures of Slow Travel: Women’s Cycle Touring as Alternative Hedonism - Simone Fullagar
Chapter 9: Wandering Australia: Independent Travellers and Slow Journeys through Time and Space - Marg Tiyce and Erica Wilson
Chapter 10: The Truth of the Body on Random Roads: The Resurgence of Hitchhiking and ‘Self-powered’ Practices - Michael O’Regan
Chapter 11: ‘If you’re making waves then you have to slow down’: Slow Tourism and Canals - Julia Fallon
Slow Tourism Places
Chapter 12: Travellin’ Around on Yukon Time in Canada’s North - Suzanne de la Barre
Chapter 13: ‘Fast Japan, Slow Japan’: Shifting to Slow Tourism as a Rural Regeneration Tool in Japan - Meiko Murayama and Gavin Parker
Chapter 14: Tribe Tourism: A Case Study of the Tribewanted Project on Vorovoro, Fiji - Dawn Gibson, Stephen Pratt & Apisalome Movono
Chapter 15: Slow Tourism Initiatives: An Exploratory Study of Dutch Lifestyle Entrepreneurs in France - Esther Groenendaal
Chapter 16: Slow Travel and Indian Culture: Philosophical and Practical Aspects - Sagar Singh
Chapter 17: Reconceptualising Slow Travel and Tourism - Kevin Markwell, Simone Fullagar and Erica Wilson

In this well researched collection of 17 chapters written by key scholars this book critically engages with the question: what do slow mobilities mean for tourism? Providing international case studies, multidisciplinary, philosophical and theoretical explorations, the book contributes timely, new and refreshing insights that should be read by anyone interested in the emerging phenomenon of slow travel.