An overview is presented of the main themes addressed in this book about the host gaze, followed by summaries of the individual book chapters.

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

This introduction offers some conceptual discussion on peace, the contribution of tourism to the pursuit of peace, and the role of tourism education in the light of the peace proposition, before providing a preview of the individual book chapters.

This book is about host-guest encounters in tourism, and specifically focuses on the host gaze. It identifies the aspects of the host gaze that distinguish it from the tourist gaze and from the conventional gaze encountered. It also identifies different types of host gazes and roles associated with ...

This chapter explores how young Tibetans view the future of the tourism sector in the context of Lhasa. It pursues three themes (a non-Western setting, a location with a rapid evolution of tourism and a focus on the future) to continue the exploration of the gaze concept.

This chapter builds upon MacCannell's second gaze to propose a third gaze: a gaze that offers a deeper look into the gaze, and this time goes truly beyond the visible to reach the invisible in the unconscious of the host gaze. The third gaze is ingrained in psychoanalysis and psychoanalytical...

This synthesis chapter subjects the gaze to scrutiny, offering the reader a comprehensive analysis of the gaze, the Foucauldian gaze and the gaze in tourism. Building on Hollinshead's previous work on the gaze and chapter 1 in this book (entitled 'The Scopic Drive of Tourism: Foucault and Eye...

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...

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 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...