Engaging volunteer tourism in post-disaster recovery in Nepal

Wearing, Stephen; Beirman, David; Grabowski, Simone

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2019.102802

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“…Vulnerable destination tourism was born out of tourists' morality and compassion, among which the leading themes are post-crisis destination tourism (including volunteer tourism) and last chance tourism (LCT) (i.e., [35][36][37]).…”

Section: Travel Ethicsmentioning

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“…Nuray and Yuksel (2020) [42] identified the opportunities and challenges of using slow philosophy in the development of tourism from the perspective of the supply side of Latvia, explaining that slow tourism has potential for destination sustainability; that is, it cannot only promote sustainable tourism and economic development in the region but also enhance the capacity of local stakeholders. [ 36,37] Tourist psychology and decision…”

Section: Tourist Satisfactionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…34,42,43] Travel ethicsWearing et al (2020) [36] examined the recovery of tourism in Nepal after the 2015 earthquake and found that voluntary tourism can be recovered in various destinations, such as Nepal. The last chance tourism (LCT) market is built around moral paradoxes (Stephen et al 2020).…”

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What Is Interdisciplinarity in the Study of Sustainable Destination Development?

Persson-Fischer

Liu

2021

Sustainability

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A large body of evidence suggests that sustainable destination development (SDD) is not only multidisciplinary but interdisciplinary as its research involves the integration of knowledge, methods, theories or disciplines. The word inter- is a “dangerous” one as it implies a “dangerous connection” attempting to reconcile irreconcilable people (i.e., North institutions and South institutions), but it is also very inclusive as, for example, economic behavior is related to social background and cultural issues. Although a common view is that SDD is interdisciplinary, what disciplines does it cross exactly? With the attendant “semantic confusion”, research on SDD is working in different directions, but what exactly does the existing research take as its object of study? What are the leading themes and perspectives in the field? How do we evaluate these diversification efforts? Trying to add one more seems redundant. We believe that after nearly two decades of productive scholarship, it is now time to try to identify some potential paradigms in SDD. A content-analysis-based literature review to explore previous studies is undoubted of value, as these diverse efforts point to current trends in SDD research. Therefore, we conducted an exploratory and descriptive analysis of the literature on SDD from 2015–2020 to provide specific indications for its interdisciplinary character. As a result, a total of 175 articles in 31 crucial journals from 2015 to 2020 are reviewed. Based on content analysis, five leading themes and five leading perspectives in the SDD literature were identified. We adopted an immanent critique method to discuss our findings. We appeal for consensus instead of definition and balance instead of choice in the discourse of SDD. We suggest ways in which past academic research can be used smartly and point out some important but neglected areas to stimulate a more creative research production.

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What Is Interdisciplinarity in the Study of Sustainable Destination Development?

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2021

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“…Th e quake lasted approximately 50 seconds aff ecting 32 districts out of which 14 districts being heavily aff ected. All across Nepal 9200 people died (Hutt & Shreesh, 2019), among the dead were 89 foreign nationals visiting from 17 countries (Wearing, Beirman & Grabowski, 2020). Around 773,093 private houses were completed damaged and 298,998 houses were partially damaged (Subedi, 2018).…”

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“…Th e earthquake and its aft ermath had a signifi cant and negative impact on tourism arrivals to Nepal in 2015 (Wearing et al, 2020). Th e exact statistics of tourists in Barpak is not available due to the absence of tourism information center.…”

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A Study of Dark (Disaster) Tourism in Reconstructed Barpak, Nepal

Kunwar

Karki²

2020

The Gaze: J Tourism & Hosp.

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Barpak is one of the largest and self-reliant villages of Nepal, situated at an altitude of 1900m of Gorkha district the village is popularly known for home-stay based tourism destination in the mountainous region of Nepal. At present, Barpak has been garnering attention as epicenter of Earthquake 2015. The earthquake transformed the former traditional homogeneous architectural attraction into seeming architectural repulsion. There is confusion among the locals about their identity that was predominantly related with their homogeneity. There is an upsurge of cognitive dissonance and locals see the present context as tourism impossibility and are quite hopeless about post-disaster tourism development. This article adapts synchronic approach to highlight the tourism dynamics of Barpak in the aftermath by contemplating on the fact that disaster-led repulsion could be turned into attraction via an alternative paradigm. Developing both dark and non-dark (leisure) attractions that includes sociology of death, beliefs of death and disaster, commoditization of death, mortality mediation, memorials on one side and the landscapes, place, identity, socio-cultural diversity, instant culture in the Aftermath, reconstruction narratives from the locals, on the other side, respectively. A leap from leisure tourism destination to niche tourism destination and continuation of both by complimenting each other. This unique mixture of dark and non-dark products at one place could be a prototype for post-disaster tourist destinations.

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Large‐scale enterprises, social capital and the post‐disaster development of community tourism: The case of Taoping, China

Gao

Cao

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Journal of Tourism Research

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This study explores how large‐scale enterprises build and mobilise social capital with intra‐ and inter‐community actors to stimulate the post‐disaster development of community tourism. Based on in‐depth interviews, this case study was conducted in Taoping, China. The findings show that large‐scale enterprises integrated bonding social capital created through engaging with Taoping villagers with bridging social capital developed through inter‐community collaborations to facilitate the post‐disaster development of community tourism. This study focuses on the dynamics of interactions between large‐scale enterprises, intra‐ and inter‐community actors. It contributes to providing a deeper understanding of the significance of large‐scale enterprises for the post‐disaster development of community tourism through the lens of social capital.

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Engaging volunteer tourism in post-disaster recovery in Nepal

Cited by 33 publications

References 75 publications

What Is Interdisciplinarity in the Study of Sustainable Destination Development?

What Is Interdisciplinarity in the Study of Sustainable Destination Development?

A Study of Dark (Disaster) Tourism in Reconstructed Barpak, Nepal

Large‐scale enterprises, social capital and the post‐disaster development of community tourism: The case of Taoping, China

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