Risk creation in traveling

Elsrud, Torun

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“…This feeling is in contrast to the assumption that tourists are merely controlled and "herded" around by tour operators to tourist-saturated locations (Sørensen, 2003). Indeed, it is frequently assumed that backpackers will frequently seek unusual routes, as well as the avoidance of crowds (Elsrud, 2001;Muzaini, 2006;Sørensen, 2003;Tsaur, Yen, & Chen, 2010;Urry, 1990). This is, suggests Muzaini Downloaded by [University of Lethbridge] at 10:54 23 June 2016 (2006, p. 145), because backpackers desire to be at "one with the locals", and desire a deeper travel experience that ventures beyond "superficial encounters".…”

Section: The "Backpacker Bible" Paradoxmentioning

confidence: 92%

“…Although numerous comments and tweets were in strong support of the brand, many were as equally against. The critical point of the debate surrounding LP users echoed earlier academic discussions about whether backpackers truly are courageous, adventurous, or indeed independent (see Elsrud, 2001;Maoz, 2007;Noy, 2004;Pearce & Foster, 2007;Sørensen, 2003). Evidently, many believed that users of LP guidebooks were not.…”

Section: Lp's Declinegood Riddancementioning

confidence: 97%

“…However, it has been additionally posited that LP guidebooks, as well as other similar well-known brands, became popular in backpacker circles because of their ability to arouse notions of "adventure" and "exploration" (Bansal & Eiselt, 2004), or feelings of "independence" and "freedom" (Koshar, 2000). Others have asserted that one of the key motivations of the backpacker is that he or she is strongly motivated by a desire to become involved in travel which involved elements of "risk" and "adventure", which would then fulfil their need to be seen as being "brave", "courageous", or "independent" (Elsrud, 2001;Maoz, 2007;Noy, 2004;Pearce & Foster, 2007;Paris & Teye, 2010;Sørensen, 2003). Thus, LP guidebooks are frequently structured around a format that enables backpackers to feel they are attaining individualistic experiences by moving away from more mainstream sources of information (Ioannides & Debbage, 1997).…”

Section: The "Backpacker Bible" Paradoxmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Reaching the end of the unbeaten path? An analysis ofLonely Planet’sDigital Media “Requiem”

Butler

Paris

2016

Anatolia

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This paper examines the responses of the online community towards media reports in March 2013 of the potential decline of Lonely Planet (LP) guidebooks following the sale of LP by BBC Worldwide to NC2 Media. Through the inductive analysis of Tweets and comments posted in response to news articles in the online version of The Guardian, two key themes emerged around (1) feelings of nostalgia, sadness and loss and (2) critiques of LP users and impacts on local businesses. Thus, this paper adds new perspectives to a growing body of literature that has sought to question and scrutinize the influential role of arguably the strongest brand in independent travel literature and the increasing impact of technology on published guidebooks.

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Section: The "Backpacker Bible" Paradoxmentioning

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Section: Lp's Declinegood Riddancementioning

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Paris

2016

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“…Identity is regarded as an active, continuous process, as opposed to a static state (Elsrud, 2001). Identity is regarded as an active, continuous process, as opposed to a static state (Elsrud, 2001).…”

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“…Risktaking separates adventurers from the 'ordinary', 'mass', or 'package' tourists; the adventurous ones seek to drift away from the 'horde' in the search for 'true' experiences and to add to their travel narratives thus constructing their life story and identity. Tales, stories and histories legitimise the process of travelling to dangerous places by sensationalising it, making it appear dangerous and risky (Elsrud 2001;Mowforth & Munt, 2009). Forming and maintaining class differentiation is achieved by creating lifestyles through commodities that include both objects and experiences acquired through travels (Bourdieu, 1984).…”

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Affective Tourism

Buda¹

2015

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This book brings together, explores and expands socio-spatial affect, emotion and psychoanalytic drives in tourism for the first time. Affect is to be found in visceral intensities and resonances that circulate around and shape encounters between and amongst tourists, local tourism representatives and places. When affect manifests, it can shape-shift into emotions such as fun, joy, fear, anger and the like. When it remains a visceral force of latent bodily responses, affect overlaps with drives, as expounded in psychoanalysis. The aim of the title, therefore, is to explore how and in what ways affects, emotions and drives are felt, sensed and performed in tourism encounters in places of socio-political turmoil such as Jordan and Palestine/ Israel, with a detour to Iraq.Affective Tourism is highly innovative as it offers a new way of theorising tourism encounters, bringing together, critically examining and expanding three areas of scholarship: affective and emotional geographies, psychoanalytic geographies and dark tourism. It has relevance for tourism industries in places in the proximity of ongoing conflicts as it provides in-depth analyses of the interconnections between tourism, danger and conflict. Such understandings can lead to more socio-culturally and politically sustainable approaches to planning, development and management of tourism.This groundbreaking book will be valuable reading for students and researchers from a number of fields such as tourism studies, geography, anthropology, sociology and Middle Eastern studies.The aim of this series is to explore and communicate the intersections and relationships between leisure, tourism and human mobility within the social sciences.It will incorporate both traditional and new perspectives on leisure and tourism from contemporary geography, e.g., notions of identity, representation and culture, while also providing for perspectives from cognate areas such as anthropology, cultural studies, gastronomy and food studies, marketing, policy studies and political economy, regional and urban planning, and sociology, within the development of an integrated field of leisure and tourism studies.Also, increasingly, tourism and leisure are regarded as steps in a continuum of human mobility. Inclusion of mobility in the series offers the prospect to examine the relationship between tourism and migration, the sojourner, educational travel, and second home and retirement travel phenomena.The series comprises two strands:

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Cultural Geographies of Tourism

Crang¹

2004

A Companion to Tourism

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Risk creation in traveling

Cited by 311 publications

References 15 publications

Reaching the end of the unbeaten path? An analysis ofLonely Planet’sDigital Media “Requiem”

Reaching the end of the unbeaten path? An analysis ofLonely Planet’sDigital Media “Requiem”

Affective Tourism

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