Peter M. Burns, Marina Novelli

The making and consuming of tourism takes place within a complex social milieu, with competing actors drawing into the 'product' peoples' history, culture and lifestyles. Culture and people thus become part of the tourism product. The implications are not fully understood, though the literature ranges the arguments along a continuum with culture being described on one hand as vulnerable and fixed, waiting to be 'impacted' by tourism and on the other being seen as vibrant and perfectly well capable of dealing with globalization and modernity trends. Some of the answers are likely to focus around ideas of social identities. The intention of this book is to make a contribution to the theoretical framework of tourism through a series of international case studies. The overall purpose of the edited book is to assemble a series of essays enabling the dissemination of ideas on the critical discourse of tourism and tourists as they relate to social and cultural identities.

Introduction Tourism and Social Identities: Introduction, Peter M. Burns, Marina Novelli; Chapter 1 Social Identities and the Cultural Politics of Tourism, Peter M. Burns; GLOBAL FRAMEWORKS: THEORETICAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES; Chapter 2 The Politics of Negotiating Culture in Tourism Development, Linda K. Richter; Chapter 3 Sizing up the World: Scale and Belonging in Narratives of Round-the-World Travel, Jennie Germann Molz; Chapter 4 Close Encounters: The Role of Culinary Tourism and Festivals in Positioning a Region, Gerard van Keken, Frank Go; Chapter 5 The Ghost Host Community in the Evolution of Travel Law in World Trade Contexts: A Pragmatic Cosmopolitan Perspective, James Tunney; Chapter 6 Cultural Identities in a Globalizing World: Conditions for Sustainability of Intercultural Tourism, Johan van Rekom, Frank Go; Chapter 7 Tourist Constructions and Consumptions of Space: Place, Modernity and Meaning, Scott McCabe, Duncan Marson; LOCAL REALITIES: POST-INDUSTRIAL WORLD AND TRANSITIONAL ECONOMIES; Chapter 8 Power, Resources and Identity: The Influence of Tourism on Indigenous Communities, Donald V. L. Macleod; Chapter 9 The Development of Cultural Iconography in Festival Tourism, Philip Feifan Xie; Chapter 10 Reconciliation Tourism: On Crossing Bridges and Funding Ferries, Freya Higgins-Desbiolles; Chapter 11 Sustainable Tourism and National Park Development in St. Lucia, Janne J. Liburd; Chapter 12 Identity and Interaction: Gazes and Reflections of Tourism, Patrícia de Araújo, Brandão Couto; Chapter 13 Television Travels: Screening the Tourist Settler, David Dunn;