Introduction: Alternative Tourism Ontologies

Veijola, Soile Eeva Johanna; Molz, Jennie Germann; Pyyhtinen, Olli; Höckert, Emily; Grit, Alexander

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“…Varley et al, 2018). Slow adventure experiences are most often co-constructed with fellow sojourners as people naturally focus on 'being-with' other people (Veijola, Molz, Pyyhtinen, Höckert, & Grit, 2014). This was true for both tourists and the guides: I've had some very deep times with people, which I think have been lovely and it kind of connected us as humans.…”

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Shaping tourists’ wellbeing through guided slow adventures

Farkić

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Taylor

2020

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Against the backdrop of the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal 3, good health and wellbeing, this paper reports on a study that examined how outdoor guides perceive their role in facilitating the psychological wellbeing of tourists who consume slow adventure experiences. These experiences, such as canoeing, stargazing or foraging, are characterised by a slower passage of time, immersion in the natural world and a sense of belonging to small social groups. Grounded in research on wellbeing from a positive psychology perspective, the study utilised semi-structured, in-depth, interviews with ten outdoor adventure guides in the Scottish Highlands and Islands. Following a hermeneutic interpretive approach to analyse the interview transcripts, the findings revealed how perceptions of time, meaningful moments and a sense of togetherness are choreographed by slow adventure guides to shape tourists' psychological wellbeing through immersive guided experiences, ultimately helping tourists to re-establish a much-yearned-for connection with nature. The study adds to tourism, wellbeing and sustainability literature by providing new perspectives on psychological wellbeing through guided slow adventures. In particular the findings contribute to positive tourism, or tourism and positive psychology field of research, by revealing how mindful and eudaimonic visitor experiences are organised by adventure tour guides in natural settings.

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Shaping tourists’ wellbeing through guided slow adventures

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Taylor

2020

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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“…A starting point is the recognition that tourism is life itself. It grows through relations and the act of being with others and the world (Veijola et al, 2014). Tourism as such is part of globalising mobilities of all kinds and environmental change.…”

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“…For instance, the way tourism relates to its surroundings in times of globalisation and global environmental change, are two emerging major topics of concern blurring the distinction between the usual organising concepts of tourism theory, such as the tourist and the host, production and consumption and/or home and away. This blurring is manifest in theorising tourism and the Anthropocene (Gren and Huijbens, 2016), hospitality (Veijola et al, 2014), performance (Hannam, 2009), actor-networks in tourism (Van der Duim et al, 2012, 2017), as well as notions of the sharing economy/collaborative consumption and creativity (Forno and Garibaldi, 2015; Dredge and Gyimóthy, 2015; Richards, 2011). All these point towards the de-differentialisation of the economic and the social as usually defined (Lash and Urry, 1994; Thrift, 2005), and call for more attentive and dynamic ways to organise tourism-environment and tourism-society relations as well as to conceptualise tourism’s transformative capacities.…”

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Tending to destinations: Conceptualising tourism’s transformative capacities

Huijbens

Jóhannesson

2019

Tourist Studies

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This article is a theoretical contribution to inform scholarship on tourism destination development and dynamics. Our point of departure is the prevailing linear ‘economic growth paradigm’ animating tourism development discourse and practice. Through this discourse, people, landscapes, heritage and artefacts become valued as commodities and claims laid to tourism benefits emerge as objective, measurable facts. We contend that this discourse relies on an understanding of tourism resources and entrepreneurial activities as pure social constructs, which does not fully grasp the dynamics of emergent tourism realities and destinations’ transformative capacities. We argue for alternative conceptualisations of tourism that equip tourism scholars with the conceptual tools to grasp the plurality of tourism futures. These involve ‘vital materialism’ built on a relational ontology foregrounding the creative life force that permeates us and all that surrounds us. We conclude with outlining the implications this approach has for the discussion of tourism destination development. We argue that these conceptual tools will lay the foundations for ethically sound tourism development in times of global uncertainties from the perspective of people, their commitments and aspirations and the environment.

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“…Kingsbury, 2011). Viewing the political as something experienced through intimate spaces and socialities can therefore help to refocus on hospitality as a lived, messy, and vital practice (Veijola et al., 2014). Parallel work in feminist geographies has engaged with what Askins (2015: 476) and others call ‘quiet politics’, concerning the ‘more-than-implicit’ care, support and mutuality that operate beyond the register of ‘formal’ politics but are nonetheless infused with politicised currents.…”

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Reading hospitality mutually

Ince

Bryant

2018

Environ Plan D

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This article addresses debates in geography regarding the nature and significance of hospitality. Despite increasingly inhospitable policy landscapes across the Global North, grassroots hospitality initiatives stubbornly persist, including various global travel-based initiatives and networks. Drawing from research with these travel networks, we argue that hospitality is fundamentally based on a pervasive, mutualistic sociality in a multitude of forms. Such initiatives, and hospitality more generally, can be better understood in terms of their relationship to these wider mutualities. we the efo e use Pete K opotki s a a histgeographic concept of mutual aidin conversation with Jacques Derrida and other thinkers-to ei agi e hospitalit as utual hospita le ess ; s ste i , spatio-temporally expansive, and underpinned by a conception of self that is constituted through, and gains its vitality from, intertwinement with the other.

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Introduction: Alternative Tourism Ontologies

Cited by 8 publications

References 22 publications

Shaping tourists’ wellbeing through guided slow adventures

Shaping tourists’ wellbeing through guided slow adventures

Tending to destinations: Conceptualising tourism’s transformative capacities

Reading hospitality mutually

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