Negotiating hospitality: ethics of tourism development in the Nicaraguan Highlands

"How do hosts and guests welcome each other in responsible tourism encounters? This book addresses the question in a longitudinal ethnographic study on tourism development in the coffee-cultivating communities in Nicaragua. The research follows the trail of development practitioners and researc...

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1. Verfasser: Höckert, Emily (VerfasserIn)
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Abingdon, Oxon Routledge 2018
Schriftenreihe:Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism and mobility
Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility
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Zusammenfassung:"How do hosts and guests welcome each other in responsible tourism encounters? This book addresses the question in a longitudinal ethnographic study on tourism development in the coffee-cultivating communities in Nicaragua. The research follows the trail of development practitioners and researchers who travel with a desire to help, teach and study the local hosts. On a broader level, it is a journey exploring why these guests, as tourists proper, expect unconditional hospitality in their encounters with rural communities. The theoretical approach bases itself on the ethical subjectivity as responsibility and receptivity towards 'the other'. The ideas put forward in the book suggest that hospitality, responsibility and participation all require a readiness to interrupt one's own ways of doing, knowing and being. This book provides a conceptual tool to facilitate reflection on alternative ways of doing togetherness between ourselves"--
Beschreibung:Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on July 06, 2018)
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xi, 208 pages)
ISBN:9781315147604
1315147602
9781351376006
1351376004
9781351375993
1351375997
9781351375986
1351375989

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