A brief overview is presented of the issues concerning tourism and inequalities, before outlining the structure of the book.

This chapter presents a critical synthesis of a range of literature from tourism studies, organization studies and the wider social sciences, and has two interrelated aims. First, to locate gender-based harassment (GBH) as an issue in the tourism academy and thereby de-isolate, empower and reassure ...

This chapter suggests that now is an appropriate time to reflect on transformative tourism. As a new and unfolding transformative perspective, hopeful tourism can offer broader philosophical understanding of how we know our multiple, entwined worlds and produce specific, attainable transformative...

This chapter discusses the tourism experiences of visually impaired individuals and explores the positive role tourism can play in their lives. Taking research undertaken in the UK to illustrate the argument, it also outlines the key barriers to participation in tourism for individuals with visual...

This book seeks to make a contribution to the tourism and inequality debate, not only through its investigation of how and why tourism contributes to and reflects social inequality, but also through its exploration of the ways in which tourism can be a means to reduce social inequality or alleviate ...

This book seeks to advance feminist and gender tourism studies with its focus on embodiment. Broad themes include: the construction of narratives; how discourses of desire, sensuality and sexuality pervade the tourism experience; the use of the body to represent femininity, masculinity and...

This chapter examines today's gendered world and gendered academic collectives with the intention of better understanding the gendered power dynamics and discourses that shape tourism theory and practice.

This chapter presents a short history of Coney Island (New York, USA) to reveal the tumultuous past that pervades its present spirit, and then contextualizes this within the concept of 'the carnivalesque' to further highlight the importance of the body and to suggest a formulation of intimate...

Looking at Tahiti through the lens of photography and journalism in Condé Nast Traveller, this chapter analyses travel magazines as products of cultural discourses and inscriptions and suggests that their travel and fashion features should be seen as fellow-travelling discursive domains that set...

This chapter examines the manner in which spatiality is able to reproduce social relations of power and how the feminization of Africa, formerly constituted by colonialism and now disseminated by tourism, is maintained in The Lost City, a South African theme park.