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TOURISM AND SOCIAL IDENTITIES GLOBAL FRAMEWORKS AND LOCAL REALITIES i ADVANCES IN TOURISM RESEARCH Series Editor: Professor Stephen J. Page University of Stirling, UK [email protected] Advances in Tourism Research series publishes monographs and edited volumes that comprise state-of-the-art research findings, written and edited by leading researchers working in the wider field of tourism studies. The series has been designed to provide a cutting edge focus for researchers interested in tourism, particularly the management issues now facing decision-makers, policy analysts and the public sector. The audience is much wider than just academics and each book seeks to make a significant contribution to the literature in the field of study by not only reviewing the state of knowledge relating to each topic but also questioning some of the prevailing assumptions and research paradigms which currently exist in tourism research. 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BURNS University of Brighton, UK MARINA NOVELLI University of Brighton, UK Amsterdam ● Boston ● Heidelberg ● London ● New York ● Oxford Paris ● San Diego ● San Francisco ● Singapore ● Sydney ● Tokyo iii Elsevier The Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, UK Radarweg 29, PO Box 211, 1000 AE Amsterdam, The Netherlands First edition 2006 Copyright © 2006 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or transmitted in any form or by any means electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise without the prior written permission of the publisher Permissions may be sought directly from Elsevier’s Science & Technology Rights Department in Oxford, UK: phone (+44) (0) 1865 843830; fax (+44) (0) 1865 853333; email: [email protected]. Alternatively you can submit your request online by visiting the Elsevier web site at http://elsevier.com/locate/permissions, and selecting Obtaining permission to use Elsevier material Notice No responsibility is assumed by the publisher for any injury and/or damage to persons or property as a matter of products liability, negligence or otherwise, or from any use or operation of any methods, products, instructions or ideas contained in the material herein, Because of rapid advances in the medical sciences, in particular, independent verification of diagnoses and drug dosages should be made British Library Cataloguing in Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data A catalog record for this book is available from the Library of Congress ISBN-13: 978-0-08-045074-2 ISBN-10: 0-08-045074-1 For information on all Elsevier publications visit our website at books.elsevier.com Printed and bound in The Netherlands 060708091010987654321 iv Contents List of Figures vii List of Tables ix Contributors xi Acknowledgements xv Tourism and Social Identities: Introduction 1 Peter M. Burns and Marina Novelli 1. Social Identities and the Cultural Politics of Tourism 13 Peter M. Burns Section I: Global Frameworks: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives 2. The Politics of Negotiating Culture in Tourism Development 27 Linda K. Richter 3. Sizing up the World: Scale and Belonging in Narratives of Round-the-World Travel 39 Jennie Germann Molz 4. Close Encounters: The Role of Culinary Tourism and Festivals in Positioning a Region 49 Gerard van Keken and Frank Go 5. The Ghost Host Community in the Evolution of Travel Law in World Trade Contexts: A Pragmatic Cosmopolitan Perspective 61 James Tunney 6. Cultural Identities in a Globalizing World: Conditions for Sustainability of Intercultural Tourism 79 Johan van Rekom and Frank Go v vi Contents 7. Tourist Constructions and Consumptions of Space: Place, Modernity and Meaning 91 Scott McCabe and Duncan Marson Section II: Local Realities: Post-Industrial World and Transitional Economies 8. Power, Resources and Identity: The Influence of Tourism on Indigenous Communities 111 Donald V. L. Macleod 9. The Development of Cultural Iconography in Festival Tourism 125 Philip Feifan Xie 10. Reconciliation Tourism: On Crossing Bridges and Funding Ferries 137 Freya Higgins-Desbiolles 11. Sustainable Tourism and National Park Development in St. Lucia 155 Janne J. Liburd 12. Identity and Interaction: Gazes and Reflections of Tourism 175 Patrícia de Araújo Brandão Couto 13. Television Travels: Screening the Tourist Settler 185 David Dunn Author Index 195 Subject Index 201 List of Figures Figure 4.1: Polyinclusion (Go & Fennema, 2003). 54 Figure 6.1: Weigert’s (1986) basic approaches to identity. 81 Figure 8.1: Map of the Dominican Republic and the Caribbean. 116 Source: Columbus World Travel Guide (2004). vii This page intentionally left blank viii List of Tables Table 1.1: Critical issues: some substantive implications. 21 Table 9.1: Development of Can-Am Festival in Myrtle beach. 130 ix This page intentionally left blank x Contributors Peter M. Burns (PhD) is a professor of International Tourism and Development and direc- tor of the Centre for Tourism Policy Studies (CENTOPS) at the University of Brighton. He is former director of the Fiji Hotel School and head of the department and of Sport, Leisure and Tourism, The Business School, University of Luton. He is a consultant anthropologist specialising in strategic policy-making/implementation for tourism’s human resources and identifying insightful solutions to the cultural impacts of tourism. He has extensive inter- national experience in institutional strengthening and working with communities helping them to achieve better education, participation and training opportunities. He was the founding chair of the Association of Tourism and Leisure Studies (ATLAS) special inter- est group on Tourism and Social Identities, vice chair of the ATLAS committee, member of the World Tourism Organization Education Committee and one of the first tourism scholars to be elected as an academician of the Academy of Learned Societies for the Social Sciences. Marina Novelli (PhD) is a senior lecturer in Tourism Development and Management at the Centre for Tourism Policy Studies (CENTOPS), University of Brighton. Her main research interests include regional development and tourism, tourism planning and man- agement, niche tourism and rural tourism markets development and management. She recently edited the volume “Niche Tourism: contemporary issues, trends and cases” (2005, Oxford: Elsevier) and completed a monograph commissioned by the Italian Ministry of Environment on the “Gargano National Park, Apulia – Italy”. Her most recent research activity focuses on consumptive vs. non-consumptive tourism, Community Based Tourism and Tourism Cluster Development. She has been previously involved in a variety of European regional planning and tourism management consulting projects and is currently co-ordinator of the special interest group “Tourism and the Local Economy”. Patrí cia de Araú jo Brandão Couto is a doctoral student in Anthropology at Federal Fluminense University, Brazil and recipient of the CAPES-COFECUB research grant from the Sociology Department of Paris X-Nanterre University. Her fieldwork in Bahia, Brazil is uncovering several layers of complex relationships between insiders and outsiders and contributing significantly to the study of tourism (among other influences) upon remote, restructuring microeconomies. xi xii Contributors David Dunn (PhD) worked as a television programme maker for 30 years, producing and/or directing a range of dramas and documentaries for STV, ATV, Central and BBC, before becoming an University lecturer in Media and Television Production in 1997, first at Salford and subsequently at Paisley. He now works at Queen Margaret University College, Edinburgh as Head of Drama and Performance. His research interests, on which he has published in journals and edited collections, include: The Tourist Gaze and the Television Camera’s Gaze; Consumption of Marginal Places; Gaelic Television in Scotland; and Soap Opera: Place and Gendering. Jennie Germann Molz is a postdoctoral research fellow in the Centre for Mobilities Studies at Lancaster University. Her