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Lanfant, Marie-Françoise

doi:10.4135/9781446250402.n1

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“…The global-local dialectic is by now a familiar framework for describing tourism relations (for example, Oakes, 1993;Lanfant et al, 1995;Chang, et al, 1996;Milne, 1998), as is the differentiation of the market in terms of 'traveller' and 'tourist' (e.g. Cohen, 1973;Urry, 1990).…”

Section: 'Staying Within the Fence': Broadening Horizonsmentioning

confidence: 98%

'Staying Within the Fence': Lifestyle Entrepreneurship in Tourism

Ateljević¹,

Doorne²

2000

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Lifestyle, non-economic motives have been recognised as significant stimuli for tourism entrepreneurship and growth of the small-business sector. Tourism research, to date, has focused on the conceptualisation of entrepreneurship informed largely by economic analysis. In this context, the long-term survival of lifestyle entrepreneurs in tourism has been addressed as a constraint within regional economic development. Our research of an emerging cohort of lifestyle entrepreneurs in New Zealand tourism, focusing on the motivating values of these entrepreneurs, reveals that their often conscious rejection of economic and business growth opportunities is an expression of their sociopolitical ideology. Coincidentally, this rejection of an overtly profit-driven orientation does not necessarilyresult in financial suicide or developmental stagnation but rather provides opportunities to engage with 'niche' market consumers informed by values common to themselves within rapidly segmenting markets. Moreover, the research indicates that these lifestyle entrepreneurs are often instrumental in the creation and introduction of innovative products to the wider industry which are not only capable of articulating values common to the sustainability debate with respect to a sense of place and community, but also stimulate regional development and reproduction of niche market products.

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Section: 'Staying Within the Fence': Broadening Horizonsmentioning

confidence: 98%

'Staying Within the Fence': Lifestyle Entrepreneurship in Tourism

Ateljević¹,

Doorne²

2000

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

535

418

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“…(1996: 265) Struggles over tourism developments frequently raise questions concerning the meanings and representations attached to particular places and the identities of those folk who live in those places. For example, Lanfant (1995a) has noted that the development of tourism in particular places often leads to the emergence of new, or retrenched, identities in response to cultural changes wrought by such developments. Lanfant (1995b) also notes that, in the context of changes wrought by tourism, local communities will often seize upon tourism as a means of communication in order to display their existence, and to assert their own identities.…”

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'Selling the rain', resisting the sale: Resistant identities and the conflict over tourism in Goa

Routledge¹

2001

Social & Cultural Geography

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“…This has been attributed to identities being increasingly fragmented and fractured as they are "multiply constructed across different, often intersecting and antagonistic, discourses, practices and positions" (Hall, 1996, p. 4;Lanfant, 1995). Constructing and maintaining a stable personal identity has become an ongoing issue for many individuals in late modern Western society largely due to changes in social organisation wherein choice has increasingly replaced obligation or tradition (Bauman, 1996;Cote & Levine, 2002;Lanfant, 1995).…”

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Personal identity (de)formation among lifestyle travellers: a double‐edged sword

Cohen

2010

Leisure Studies

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This article explores the personal identity work of lifestyle travellers -individuals for whom extended leisure travel is a preferred lifestyle that they return to repeatedly. Qualitative findings from in-depth semi-structured interviews with lifestyle travellers in northern India and southern Thailand are interpreted in light of theories on identity formation in late modernity that position identity as problematic. It is suggested that extended leisure travel can provide exposure to varied cultural praxes that may contribute to a sense of social saturation. Whilst a minority of the respondents embraced a saturation of personal identity in the subjective formation of a cosmopolitan cultural identity, several of the respondents were paradoxically left with more identity questions than answers as the result of their travels.

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Cited by 25 publications

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'Staying Within the Fence': Lifestyle Entrepreneurship in Tourism

'Staying Within the Fence': Lifestyle Entrepreneurship in Tourism

'Selling the rain', resisting the sale: Resistant identities and the conflict over tourism in Goa

Personal identity (de)formation among lifestyle travellers: a double‐edged sword

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