This chapter argues that volunteer tourism has become a global phenomenon, with market predictions indicating growth in both size and value and with this growth has come the inevitable controversies that surround new trends or phenomena. It explains that in examining this phenomenon there is a need ...

This chapter visits the paradoxes of tourism encounters in Gambia, with a focus on the host gaze instead of the tourist gaze. Exploring the complexity of becoming a 'host' in Gambia, it (re)inscribes meaning to the term gaze with its (largely) one-dimensional utilization within tourism studies, and ...

This chapter explains the concept of residential tourism and its relationship with lifestyle migration by exploring the social problems associated with it identified in Alicante, Spain. It then puts forward a typology that may be helpful in dealing with the complexity of this situation, where the...

This chapter delineates major controversies surrounding casino gaming development. It is argued that despite the proliferation of casinos, especially in the USA, whenever and wherever casino gaming legislation has been introduced and discussed, heated debates arise between gaming's advocates and...

Discussing the controversies surrounding wildlife tourism and trophy hunting, this chapter offers an overview of the definitional dilemmas with which this 'leisure activity' is faced. It then presents arguments in support of this activity and arguments against it, and looks at trophy hunting from...

This chapter contributes a case study that focuses on the extent to which tourism leads to local development or whether the tourists' quest for authenticity holds back development. By using the hill tribes of Northern Thailand as a representative case, the study highlights the need for governmental ...

This chapter examines controversies related to a common tourism policy of the European Union. Most of the studies addressing the extent of the European Union's involvement in tourism and the depth of its tourism policy argue that the European Union must play a proactive role in tourism, while the...

This chapter discusses the nature of freedom in leisure and tourism. Discussing the moralization of tourism, it proposes that while some authors are enthusiastic about this moralizing drive for a more ethically oriented tourism, others have criticized the oversimplification of this moralization,...

This chapter presents an overview of the multitude of controversies inherent in tourism and introduces the contents of this book.

This book makes a contribution to the understanding of tourism controversies. Its purpose is to provide a platform for open debate and intellectual discourse with a variety of views on perceived controversies or manifest conflicts firstly within tourism (endogenous controversies), but also in the...