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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Contributors -- Foreword / Cohen, Erik -- Preface / Singh, Tej Vir -- Introduction / Singh, Tej Vir -- 1 I Am a Traveller, You Are a Visitor, They Are Tourists But Who Are Post-Tourists? / Uriely, Natan / Dunn, David / McCabe, Scott -- 2 Is Tourist a Secular Pilgrim or a Hedonist in Search of Pleasure? / Salazar, Noel B. / Margry, Peter Jan / Hannam, Kevin / Knox, Dan -- 3 Do Tourists Travel for the Discovery of ‘Self’ or to Search for the ‘Other’? / McKercher, Bob / Dann, Graham / Moscardo, Gianna -- 4 Is Volunteerism a New Avatar of Travelism? / Coghlan, Alexandra / Guttentag, Daniel / Lyons, Kevin D. / Small, Jennie / Grabowski, Simone / Wearing, Stephen L. -- 5 Tourism’s Invulnerability: Lies, Damn Lies and Statistics / Jenkins, Carson L. / Sharpley, Richard / Aramberri, Julio -- 6 Vanishing Peripheries: Does Tourism Consume Places? / Wall, Geoffrey / Weaver, David / Harrison, David / Hall, C. Michael -- 7 Tourism is More Sinned Against than Sinning / Smith, Peter / Macbeth, Jim / Scott, Noel / Sharpley, Richard -- 8 Is the Concept of Sustainability Utopian? Ideally Perfect but Hard to Practice / Wheeller, Brian / Weaver, David / Buckley, Ralf / Butler, Richard / McCool, Stephen -- 9 What is Wrong with the Concept of Carrying Capacity? / McArthur, Simon / Brothers, Gene / Singh, Sagar / Buckley, Ralf -- 10 Knowledge Management in Tourism: Are the Stakeholders Research-Averse? / Scott, Noel / Ruhanen, Lisa / Cooper, Chris -- 11 Tourism for Whom: The Unmet Challenge / Swarbrooke, John / Wall, Geoffrey / Hall, C. Michael / Butler, Richard -- Index
In this volume leading experts from different disciplines and diverse geographic regions discuss fundamental, often controversial topics in the field of tourism studies. The book attempts to understand, identify and analyse some of the perennial problems and challenges encountered by tourism researchers. The debates include topics such as the concept of the ‘tourist’, the long-term sustainability of tourism development, the growth of volunteer tourism and the vulnerability of tourism. Bringing together the collective wisdom of 37 renowned tourism scholars in a unique format, this is an important text for undergraduate and postgraduate students, tourism researchers and industry professionals