Tourism And Intercultural Exchange: Why Tourism Matters

From Chapter 1
Tourism matters because it provides both a lens onto and an energy for relationships with everyday life. It invites us to engage in exchanges of life with others, and to remind us thereby of its most precious and vulnerable aspect: the intricate relativities of defining people who are not us. Tourism matters because, in a world of confusing connections and disconnections between human beings, our lives with others matter.

Contents

Acknowledgements
Part 1: Living the Tourist Life
1 Why Tourism Matters
2 The Give and the Take
3 Doing Being Tourists
Part 2: Packing the Travel Bag
4 Packing
5 Packers of Culture
6 Bag-sized Stories
Part 3: Unpacking the Travel Bag
7 New Habits
8 Exchanging Stories
9 Changing Spaces
Part 4: After Tourism
10 The Return to Routine
11 Conclusions
Bibliography
Index