Critical Inclusive Tourism

Empowering Marginalized Groups

Catheryn Khoo, Prachi Thakur, Paolo Mura, Jess Sanggeyong Je, Mona Yang

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2024
• Print ISBN:
  9781032754499
  9781032754482
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781040122525
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Industry
• Index: Business

This groundbreaking book addresses the longstanding lack of consensus surrounding the approach to marginalization in tourism. The chapters identify critical components and question the legitimacy of who qualifies as marginalized. Crucially, the book formulates effective solutions to address marginalization within the tourism context.

While previous studies in tourism and social sciences have presented diverse conceptualizations and explanations of marginalization, the chapters in this book meticulously scrutinize their contextualization in constructing structural marginalization within the tourism industry. By doing so the book offers a comprehensive understanding of how marginalisation manifests in the complex dynamics within the tourism sector. The chapters unravel the multifaceted dimensions of marginalization, providing a nuanced and informed perspective that contributes significantly to the ongoing discourse on inclusivity and equity within tourism knowledge.

This book will be useful to tourism practitioners, academics, students, researchers and policymakers. The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of Tourism Recreation Research.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half Title
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• Citation Information
• Notes on Contributors
• Introduction – Empowering marginalised groups for inclusive tourism: a call for critical studies
• 1 Tourism memories – a collaborative reflection on inclusion and exclusion
• 2 Where are the Indigenous and First Nations people in sport event volunteering? Can you be what you can’t see?
• 3 Multicultural food events – opportunities for intercultural exchange and risks of stereotypification
• 4 Making cultural and tourist attractions accessible and inclusive for people with disability through value co-creation amidst COVID-19: a critical discourse analysis
• 5 The growth of Aboriginal tourism in remote Australia: Indigenist method for an operator perspective
• 6 The empowerment of street food vendors: a marginalised community within the hospitality industry
• 7 Beyond marginalisation: cultivating care by leaning into the voices of young advocates
• 8 ‘What is your name, where do you come from, what is your grade?’ Using art-based interviews to highlight the experience of children hosting school tours in Matabeleland North, Zimbabwe
• 9 The role of gender equality in Iranian female tourism entrepreneurs’ success
• 10 Empowering people with visual disabilities through rural tourism: the benefits of nature activities and how the various travel constraints can be overcome
• 11 Inclusive tourism: the experiences and expectations of Indonesian wheelchair tourists in nature tourism
• 12 Transgender men in tourism: marginalisation, constraints and inclusion opportunities
• 13 Understanding senior citizens’ intentions to use virtual reality for religious tourism in India: a behavioural reasoning theory perspective
• 14 Tourism and final wish making: the discourse of terminal illness and travel
• 15 An investigation of factors affecting solo travel intention among marginalized groups: a case of Indian Muslim Women
• 16 Envisioning an inclusive tourism for an equitable future
• Index