Tourism, social representations and empowerment of rural communities at Langue de Barbarie National Park, Senegal

Sarr, Birame; Sène-Harper, Aby; Gonzalez-Hernandez, Matias M.

doi:10.1080/09669582.2020.1855437

Cited by 17 publications

(10 citation statements)

References 42 publications

Supporting

Mentioning

Contrasting

Order By: Relevance

“…Scholars of tourism were relatively quick to start discussing empowerment [34,35], and have since grappled with urgent questions of power, power inequities, disempowerment and empowerment in tourism [7,[36][37][38]. Interest in the tourism-empowerment interface has been notable in writing on particular aspects of tourism, as follows: community-based tourism [39,40], business tourism [41], coastal and marine tourism [42,43], cultural tourism [15,[44][45][46][47], ecotourism [13,38,[48][49][50][51], Indigenous tourism [52][53][54], naturebased tourism [55,56], rural tourism [57,58], wildlife-based tourism [49,59], and urban tourism [60]. Countries located in the Global South (including Botswana, Ecuador, Indonesia, India, Vietnam, the Philippines, Namibia, Nepal, Mozambique, Senegal, South Africa, Uganda, Mexico, Costa Rica, Fiji and Zimbabwe) feature prominently in the related literature.…”

Section: Empowerment In Tourism Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism, Empowerment and Sustainable Development: A New Framework for Analysis

Scheyvens

Watt

2021

Sustainability

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

For over twenty years, tourism researchers have examined how to determine whether destination communities are being empowered through tourism: there is much we can learn through analysis of that work. We outline and critique the most commonly used empowerment framework in this field as was first published by Scheyvens in 1999, which has four dimensions (psychological, social, economic and political) but which has been adapted and extended in a variety of ways. We also consider two other frameworks, and the application of a revised model in the South African context, before proposing that the Scheyvens framework would be strengthened through the addition of environmental and cultural dimensions. We draw theoretical inspiration from nested circle approaches to sustainable development to embed the dimensions of community empowerment within a series of ‘enabling factors’ that might support possibilities for community empowerment to occur, and, in turn, the empowerment dimensions and enabling factors are situated within a wider circle of the natural environment. We have structured this all into a new Empowerment and Sustainable Development Framework.

show abstract

Section: Empowerment In Tourism Researchmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism, Empowerment and Sustainable Development: A New Framework for Analysis

Scheyvens

Watt

2021

Sustainability

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

show abstract

“…Other theories have also been considered in social impacts of tourism research but to a lesser degree. Social representations theory is one framework that has been applied somewhat sparingly by tourism researchers (Monterrubio & Andriotis, 2014;Moscardo, 2011;Sarr et al, 2021) building on the initial work by Moscovici (1984). The theories of reasoned action and planned behavior are two additional frameworks that have attracted some attention as of late to help explain residents' impacts of tourism (though originally popular in considering antecedents of visitors' or tourists' behaviors).…”

Section: Highlighting Theoretical Advancements In Assessing Social Im...mentioning

confidence: 99%

Methodological and theoretical advancements in social impacts of tourism research

Woosnam

Ribeiro

2022

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

This lead article introduces the double special issue dedicated to methodological and theoretical advancements in social impacts of tourism research. We begin by providing an overview of five key developmental stages of research within this area: Definitions, typologies, and conceptual model development; the advent of case study-based, atheoretical empirical inquiry; scale design, development, and testing; further scale development/refinement and theoretical application; and theoretical model development and testing. Brief evolutionary histories of the methodological and theoretical advancements of research dedicated to social impacts of tourism are then discussed. This includes a review of the most pertinent predictor variables (along with a visual display of each and key studies) in explaining residents' perceptions of social impacts of tourism and a thorough review of most frequently used theoretical frameworks. Following this, brief synopses of the articles are provided along with key themes (e.g. resident-tourist relationships, social impacts and residents' attitudes, residents' empowerment, overtourism, and methodologies) and salient points of each work. In closing, we suggest numerous lines of inquiry that will continue to advance research into social impacts of tourism. Though these studies were undertaken prior to the COVID-19 outbreak, we emphasize that future work should be designed with the pandemic in mind.

show abstract

“…Moreover, the SRT has also been marginally used in tourism studies. SRT has been adopted as a framework especially with regard to competing views of tourism, of tourists, and their impact on local communities [66][67][68][69]. There is evidence of the use of social representation theory to analyse attitudes towards, and responses to, tourism development [70][71][72] as well as to analyse collaboration among stakeholders involved in tourism planning and activities [73].…”

Section: Constructing the 'Others': Social Representation Processesmentioning

confidence: 99%

Slumming on Social Media? E-Mediated Tourist Gaze and Social Representations of Indian, South African, and Brazilian Slum Tourism Destinations

Sarrica

Rega

Inversini³

et al. 2021

Societies

View full text Add to dashboard Cite

Slum tourism is a hotly debated genre of travel. While it may foster intercultural encounters with marginalised “others”, it is also accused of reinforcing stereotypes and exploitation. Both aspects are amplified by the communication through social media of the slum tourism experience, that contribute to challenge or confirm stigmatizing representations of slums and their inhabitants. Based on the theoretical constructs of the tourist gaze and of social representations, this article addresses this particular type of digital contact. A lexicometric approach was used to analyse an extensive corpus of reviews on TripAdvisor (N = 8126). The findings not only confirm common themes already identified by the literature: the eye-opening component of touring poverty and the gatekeeping function of guides; but also show the emergence of context-dependent specificities, such as a hedonistic feature in the Cape Town region; or the integration of favelas within the representations of the city of Rio de Janeiro. Furthermore, the results show the tension between the “othering” and the “sameing” mechanisms, making this tourism practice a space in which shallow and deep tourist gazes interact and co-exist, and are crucially mediated by the gatekeeper of the tours: the guide.

show abstract

Tourism, social representations and empowerment of rural communities at Langue de Barbarie National Park, Senegal

Cited by 17 publications

References 42 publications

Tourism, Empowerment and Sustainable Development: A New Framework for Analysis

Tourism, Empowerment and Sustainable Development: A New Framework for Analysis

Methodological and theoretical advancements in social impacts of tourism research

Slumming on Social Media? E-Mediated Tourist Gaze and Social Representations of Indian, South African, and Brazilian Slum Tourism Destinations

Contact Info

Product

Resources

About