Tourism, Immigration and Multiculturalism

Horizontes Antropologicos, 2006

One of the most significant issues confronting studies in the anthropology of tourism is that of cultural change precipitated in host societies as a result of an influx of tourists. Many times those changes are accompanied by a reorganization of the host population along ethnic lines, that is, by the creation of tourism-oriented-ethnicities. This article's purpose is to examine the relationship between tourism and ethnicity in theoretical terms and to contribute to a better academic understanding of ethnic tourism.

Geojournal of tourism and Geosites, 2018

The article explores tourism migration within a South African context, focusing on migration and tourism circulation. Tourism and migration are inter-linked with globalisation. Almost all countries have jumped on the tourism bandwagon as a result of the positive economic impacts such as labour-intensive jobs, balance of payments, attracter of foreign exchange and the taxation of non-residents. Tourism has been adopted in the economic development policies and a separate Ministry of Tourism has been created, because tourism required dedicated attention. The literature review adds to the paucity of academic scrutiny of the link between tourism and multiculturalism in South Africa. The in-depth literature review analyses various sources of secondary data, to provide an authoritative understanding of the literature and draw conclusions for the academic audience. The in-depth literature review of secondary data which used the meta-analytical methodology to investigate, and critically analyse the link between tourism and multiculturalism within a Southern African context. The interpretation of the literature resulted in the crafting of essential realities about the interface between tourism and multiculturalism which has received scant academic analysis in South Africa.

The GeoJournal Library, 2002

A Book Review: Tourism Research Frontiers: beyond the boundaries of Knowledge * In only eight chapters and 165 pages, this book discusses the needs of introducing new themes of investigation in the specialized literature of tourism research. Likely, this globalized world looks pretty different from a couple of decades back, when the discipline was founded. New times, new horizons and new challenges need new thinking. As a part of prestigious Emerald Series, Chambers and Rakic present an edited book, oriented to expand the epistemological boundaries of tourism research, imagining not only new themes and issues to explore but new problems. Based on the legacy of Jafar Jafari, the editors worked hard to compile different voices, dotted of different arguments, into a shared viewpoint. In the first chapter, the editors introduce the concept of frontiers as the fringe between the known and unknown. The fieldwork suggests that we shed light on some issues while others remain unchecked. The legitimacy of academic disciplines rests on their explanatory capacity. These borders, far from being stable, are in continuous renegotiation. Though tourism-research has been consolidated as a promising academic option for graduate and postgraduate students, a radical turn undermines the dominant understanding of tourism as it has been formulated by the founding parents. Most certainly, beyond tourism, critical scholars unveiled a commoditized discourse where the " Other " is subordinated to a ruling class of developed countries. As something else than a peace-making industry, tourism covers racialized allegories which lead to control of the periphery. This paradigm sees in tourism an alienatory mechanism of surveillance. Nonetheless, this book proposes an alternative way. Instead of proclaiming the dismantling of epistemological borders of tourism, the editors suggest a shift offering a fertile ground to shore up new paradigms. Through the second chapter, Gyimothy et al, discuss the ebbs and flows of popculture tourism which represents an extension of cultural behaviour in a globalized and multiculturalist universe. In chapter 3, Mondoca presents a study case based on the relationships of stakeholders in Ilha do Grande, Rio de Janeiro (Brazil). Those communities

Annals of Tourism Research, 2011

though concentrated in some chapters, are very helpful and serve the aim of clarifying concepts and supplying information on examples related to the chapter's topic. This book provides a comprehensive work on tourism research, and thus is a suitable resource for both the students, researchers, and academics dealing with tourism research of any sort because it covers topics such as the history of tourism research, the development process, topics of concerns such as like carrying capacity and obstacles to implementation processes. Some chapters offer guidelines for applying specific methods, sometimes with a list of dos and don'ts, while giving practical various examples. This book is recommended to researchers, graduate students, and academicians studying any aspect of tourism. In comparison to other books on this topic, Tourism Research: A 20:20 Vision, offers a truly diverse collection of chapters on the perspectives, advances, and emerging themes of tourism research.

Cultural tourism is said to be the oldest of the new tourism phenomena, people have been travelling for cultural tourism reasons since the era of Romans. Visiting historical sites, cultural landmarks, attending special events and festivals has been a part of the real tourism experiences. In real sense all travel involves a cultural element since all traveling remove tourists from their home culture and places them to temporally in different cultural setting (Mckercher, 2002). These movements around the global have social impacts to be examined in the essence of sociology of tourism.

2009

This is the strongest overview I have encountered of the scope and the current state of research across all the fields involved in advancing our understanding of tourism. For its range of topics, depth of analyses, and distinction of its contributors, nothing is comparable. It will be greeted enthusiastically as an indispensable reference source' -Professor Dean MacCannell, University of California, Davis Tourism Studies developed as a sub-branch of older disciplines in the social sciences, such as anthropology, sociology and economics, and newer applied fields of study in hospitality management, civil rights and transport studies. This Handbook is a sign of the maturity of the field. It provides an essential resource for teachers and students to determine the roots, key issues and agenda of tourism studies.

2013

DergiPark (Istanbul University), 2023

This study examines the attitudes of immigrants in Turkey toward tourism development. The population of the study consists of immigrants living in Turkey. The sample consists of 453 migrants from seven regions of Turkey. The findings explain whether migrants' attitudes toward tourism differ according to socio-demographic factors such as gender, age, marital status, educational status, income and geographical location. According to the results of the study, migrants' attitudes toward the contribution of tourism to their quality of life are at a high level.On the other hand, migrants' concerns about tourism development are low. Migrants' attitudes toward tourism development differ in the Contributions to Quality of Life factor depending on gender. According to this result, male migrants perceive the contribution of tourism to their lives more positively. In addition, it was found that migrants' concerns about tourism development showed a statistically significant difference according to age and educational status. According to these results, it has been determined that the level of anxiety of highly educated immigrants toward the effects of tourism development is higher than that of immigrants with high school and lower education levels. It was also observed that young migrants between 18-24 aged responders were more concerned about the effects of tourism development than migrants in other age groups. There was no statistically significant difference between married and single migrants' attitudes toward tourism development. There was no significant difference in migrants' attitudes toward tourism development based on geographical location. The findings also show that age and income do not statistically affect migrants' attitudes toward tourism. It is recommended that tourism planners raise awareness about the adaptation processes of immigrants to tourism destinations and distribute immigrants to these destinations, considering the carrying capacity of the destination.