Transformational Tourism: Tourist PerspectivesYvette Reisinger Transformational Tourism deals with the important issue of how travel and tourism can change human behavior and have a positive impact on the world. The book focuses on human development in a world dominated by post-9/11 security and political challenges, economic and financial collapses, as well as environmental threats; it identifies various types of tourism that can transform human beings, such as educational, volunteer, survival, community-based, eco, farm, extreme, religious, spiritual, wellness, and mission tourism. |
Contents
TRANSFORMATION AND TOURISM | 15 |
WELLNESS RETREAT RELIGIOUS AND SPIRITUAL TOURISM | 53 |
EXTREME SPORTS BACKPACKING AND CULTURAL TOURISM | 109 |
WWOOFING AND ECOTOURISM | 149 |
VOLUNTEER AND EDUCATIONAL TOURISM | 181 |
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