Tiger tourism in the Bangladesh Sundarbans

Khanom, Shahida; Buckley, Ralf

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2015.09.006

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“…Outdoor nature, eco and adventure tourism is promoted for rural community development (Buckley et al, 2019;Hashemi & Ghaffary, 2017), but it is subject to religious rules on clothing, behaviour, alcohol abstinence, and separation between sexes. Islamic cultural and religious components of tourism have previously been analysed in other Islamic nations, such as Bangladesh (Khanom & Buckley, 2015); Brunei (Chen, Chen, & Okumus, 2013); Egypt (Brown & Osman, 2017); Malaysia (Battour et al, 2017); Maldives (Buckley, Guitart, & Shakeela, 2017;Shakeela & Weaver, 2018); and United Arab Emirates (Eid & El-Gohary, 2015a,b). They have not previously been analysed in relation to nature and mental health.…”

Section: Islamic Cultural Contextmentioning

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Outdoor tourism to escape social surveillance: health gains but sustainability costs

Akhoundogli

Buckley

2021

Journal of Ecotourism

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We analyse motivations and perspectives of outdoor tourists and tourism stakeholders in the Islamic Republic of Iran. We use semi-structured qualitative interviews, and interpretivist grounded theory, with basic and axial coding and fine-scaled differential narrative analysis. We distinguish three principal tourist segments, seeking: exhilaration through adventure; enjoyment of nature; and escape from cultural restrictions and associated social surveillance. The nature and adventure segments behave as ecotourists, and gain improved eudaimonic wellbeing. Nature tourists gain psychological restoration through calm and tranquil nature contemplation. Adventure tourists gain psychological recharge through challenge and achievement. The escape segment, in contrast, aims for hedonic wellbeing, is heedless of its social and ecological impacts, and does not behave as ecotourists. It adopts an ecotourism disguise, to avoid being observed as it flouts expected cultural norms. It uses unauthorized and clandestine logistics providers, creating substantial management obstacles for authorized commercial outdoor tour providers. Temporary escape from social surveillance generates mental health gains as a psychological safety valve for the tourists concerned, but their behaviour imposes unsustainable costs on local communities, natural environment, nature and adventure tourists, and outdoor tourism operators. These costs reduce the net social economic gains achieved from the mental health benefits of outdoor tourism.

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Section: Islamic Cultural Contextmentioning

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Outdoor tourism to escape social surveillance: health gains but sustainability costs

Akhoundogli

Buckley

2021

Journal of Ecotourism

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“…Neither could live without it. While much of the existing literature discusses how the type of animal bodysuch as furriness (Haanpää et al, 2019), or large size (Khanom & Buckley, 2015) -works as a glue in the tourism encounter, we highlight the blood as a novel corporeal dimension that connects the two beings.…”

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“…To illustrate, in the CABI Leisure Tourism database, a search for the keywords 'animals' and 'tourism' produces a total of 6470 results. To date, most of these studies have concentrated on exploring large animals, such as whales, tigers, elephants, penguins, or polar bears (Duffy, 2014;Khanom & Buckley, 2015;Rodger et al, 2009;Zieglera et al 2018;Yudina & Grimwood, 2016), animals that produce tourist experiences, like mules or sledge dogs (Cousquer & Allison, 2012;Granås, 2018;Haanpää, Salmela, Garcia-Rosell & Äijälä, 2019;Lindberg & Dorthe, 2016), or pets accompanying tourists in their travels (Carr, 2017). The growing centralisation of animals in tourism studies is valuable, no doubt, as it unsettles the predominant practice of theorising tourism encounters merely as a human phenomenon (Gren & Huijbens, 2012, p. 156).…”

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Living with mosquitoes

Valtonen

Salmela

Rantala

2020

Annals of Tourism Research

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“…For example, millions of people in the surrounding area of Sundarbans are severely affected almost every year by the sea originated large-scale natural disasters, such as cyclone and flooding of saline water into the land (Basar, 2012). Man-made disasters are also quite prevalent and appeared to be a huge concern for the community people due to wholesale removal of plants and animal species from the forest which make the community life vulnerable limiting economic opportunities from the forest (Khanom & Buckley, 2015;Miah et al, 2010). In addition, the wild lives of the forest are often affected by over and uncontrolled tourism (Das, 2015;Islam, 2015) through waste disposal and excessive noise creation by the tourist vessels in Sundarbans.…”

Section: Theoretical Framework and Hypothesesmentioning

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Community Participation and Quality of Life in Nature-Based Tourism: Exploring The Antecedents and Moderators

Ali

Quaddus²,

Rabbanee³

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Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research

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This study offers a conceptual framework reflecting relationships among nature-based antecedents of community participation in an ecotourism destination en route to achieving quality of life of the local community. The study also examines the moderating role of political instability and government policy in ensuring community participation and attaining quality of life, respectivelyData were collected through a structured survey from 449 local community members of Sundarbans, Bangladesh, which were analysed using SmartPLS-based structural equation modeling. Results revealed that community participation depends on natural attraction and motivation of the people to be involved with ecotourism activities. Such participation is found to influence quality of life of the community people. The results show support for significant moderating effects of political instability and government policy on the relationship between (a) ecotourism motivation and community participation and (b) community participation and quality of life, respectively. The findings offer significant theoretical and practical implications.

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Tiger tourism in the Bangladesh Sundarbans

Cited by 8 publications

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Outdoor tourism to escape social surveillance: health gains but sustainability costs

Outdoor tourism to escape social surveillance: health gains but sustainability costs

Living with mosquitoes

Community Participation and Quality of Life in Nature-Based Tourism: Exploring The Antecedents and Moderators

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