Tourism and Social Identities

Tourism and Social Milieu

The making and consuming of tourism takes place within a complex social milieu, with competing actors drawing into the product peoples’ history, culture and lifestyles. Culture and people thus become part of the tourism product.

Implications and Literature

The implications are not fully understood, though the literature ranges the arguments along a continuum with culture being described on one hand as vulnerable and fixed, waiting to be impacted by tourism and on the other being seen as vibrant and perfectly well capable of dealing with globalization and modernity trends.

Focus on Social Identities

Some of the answers are likely to focus around ideas of social identities. The intention of this book is to make a contribution to the theoretical framework of tourism through a series of international case studies.

Purpose of the Book

The overall purpose of the edited book is to assemble a series of essays enabling the dissemination of ideas on the critical discourse of tourism and tourists as they relate to social and cultural identities.