Rethinking the body in the touristic scenario

Portales, Rafael Cruces; Pedregal, Antonio Miguel Nogués

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“…These narratives have similar body ideals as theories of embodiment. Thus, non-ideal bodies are not always present in these narratives (Cruces Portales & Nogués-Pedregal, 2019). Therefore, there is a struggle to reconcile what embodiment might mean in the tourist gaze when disabled bodies are significantly limited in presence in theories of embodiment and colonial narratives.…”

Section: In Tourism Research and Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The local population often fulfil these objectifying and racially biased colonial narratives to encourage tourism (Cox Hall, 2022;Shullenberger, 2008). Limitedly represented in these narratives are bodies outside of the ideal body type, which are objectified or discriminated against by the local gaze (Cruces Portales & Nogués-Pedregal, 2019).…”

Section: Adventure Tourism Within the Tourist Gazementioning

confidence: 99%

“…This gaze towards often extends after the tourist activity, through posting on social media, leaving reviews, or continuing to have the social relationships after travel (Manimont et al, 2022). The gaze back, the local gaze, presents the tourist as a passive participant, the one being gazed at in return (Cruces Portales & Nogués-Pedregal, 2019;Lin & Fu, 2021). Despite this focus on the individual and the multiple gazes within the theory (Urry & Larsen, 2011), there is little attention to how tourists perceive themselves or how they gaze inwards.…”

Section: The Tourist Within the Tourist Gazementioning

confidence: 99%

“…Throughout the tourist gaze, the tourists themselves remain little discussed, favouring discussion of self-representation over self-identity (Canavan, 2020). There is significantly limited consideration of bodies existing outside of the idealised bodies of colonial narratives and theories of embodiment, which are often placed under scrutiny (Cruces Portales & Nogués-Pedregal, 2019;Rickly, 2021). Finally, throughout current areas of tourism research, there are gaps surrounding typologies, accessible tourism, and disabled tourists.…”

Section: Section Summarymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Ultimately, adventure tourism was identified as an ableist construction which fostered significantly limiting notions of what adventure and adventure tourists should be by centring the able body (Doran, 2016;Wenham, 2020;Zalatan, 2004). This ableist construction was present in the tourist gaze as it used possibly restrictive theories of embodiment (Cruces Portales & Nogués-Pedregal, 2019;William et al, 2023).…”

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confidence: 99%

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A Phenomenological Exploration of How People with Limited Mobilities Experience Adventure Tourism in Virtual Reality

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The aim of this study is to better understand how people with limited mobilities experience adventure tourism using virtual reality (VR). Taking a phenomenological position, my research uses a methodology based in Interpretive Phenomenological Analysis (IPA) to explore the nuances and complexities of disabled experiences using a VR headset. Disabled experiences and disabled voice are consistently limited in tourism research, even when VR is theorised as an assistive tool to access tourism experiences. There are few in-depth studies from a disabled perspective. In response to this, I sought to apply a qualitative phenomenological approach to understand the lived experience of disabled people using VR to access adventure tourism. I use IPA as a guiding framework explore the lived experiences and perspectives of seven women and five men with limited mobilities across South Wales. My contributions to research tourism are threefold. Firstly, my findings demonstrate that participants wished to use VR as a tool for escapism. The wish to escape was influenced by participants’ disabilities and bodies and use of the VR to escape was dictated by the body’s relationship with the technology; thus, VR was deemed inaccessible by participants. Secondly, as a methodological contribution, I demonstrate the value of using IPA for accessing complex and nuanced lived experiences. Furthermore, I question how VR can be beneficial to disabled people, or how it is used in research and practice if it has been considered inaccessible. Thirdly, whilst drawing on relevant literature, I decentre the able body and challenge able-bodied assumptions in tourism research. I centralise disabled voices and the disabled bodies as a point of understanding and a way of perceiving through the body. In doing so, I contribute to an emerging literature addressing the marginalisation of disabled voices from research.

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Section: In Tourism Research and Theorymentioning

confidence: 99%