Released on the 500-year anniversary of the publication of Sir Thomas More's Utopia, this volume seeks to adapt and apply More's fecund imagination to the contemporary leisure landscape. The contributors to this volume theorize and analyze a variety of "tourist utopias"--A nascent socio-spatial form crucial to a post-industrial global economy. From Disney World to Dubai, "Middle Earth" to Marina Bay, Macau to Abu Dhabi, these sites share common characteristics that include their respective status as "spaces of exception"; entrepreneurial governance regimes that rely on cooperation among state and non-state actors; transient, multinational populations; immaterial and affective forms of labor and consumption; superlative and iconic architecture; and economies devoted to such leisure activities as shopping, gambling, and spectacle. These locales are not only popular destinations for migrant workers and mobile tourists from around the globe, but also serve as cultural laboratories for testing new formats and protocols of an emergent post-Fordist form-of-life.

"By recognizing tourism as a profound social force, this book engages with notions of power and perspectives of wellness in tourism and the contested conceptualizations of tourism spaces and places for wellness"--

"Mick Smith is Reader in Sociology at the University of Abertay Dundee." "Rosaleen Duffy is a lecturer in Politics and International Relations at Lancaster University."--BOOK JACKET.

"The second edition of Environment and Tourism reflects changes in the relationship between tourism, society and the natural environment in the first decade of the new century. Alongside the updating of all statistics, environmental policy initiatives, examples and case studies, new material has been added. This includes two new chapters: one on climate change and natural disasters; and the other on the relationship between tourism and poverty. These themes have direct relevance not only to tourism but are reflective of the wider relationship between nature and society, a thesis that contextualises the book. Tourism is also analysed as an interconnected system, linking the environments of where tourists come from, with the ones they go to. Further issues addressed in the book include tourism's interaction with nature; economic opportunities for conservation; market failure that causes tourism to create environmental problems; environmental management and planning for tourism; environmental ethics; sustainable tourism and ecotourism; poverty and tourism; climate change, natural disasters and tourism."--BOOK JACKET.

1. Cultural Heritage and Indigenous tourism / Lisa Ruhanen and Michelle Whitford -- 2. Evolution of indigenous tourism among the Lacandon of Chiapas: an application of Weaver's model / Pilar Espeso-Molinero and Maria Jose Pastor-Alfonso -- 3. Cultural sustainability - a framework for Aboriginal tourism in British Columbia Tatjana Thimm -- 4. Developing indigenous tourism in the bomas: critiquing issues from within the Maasai community in Tanzania / Kokel Melubo and Anna Carr -- 5. Settler colonialism, Indigenous cultures, and the promotional landscape of tourism in Ontario, Canada's 'near North' / Bryan S. R. Grimwood, Meghan L. Muldoon and Zachary M. Stevens -- 6. Authenticity as a compromise: a critical discourse analysis of Sami tourism websites / Cecilia de Bernardi -- 7. Indigenous tourism in Australia: understanding the link between cultural heritage and intention to participate using the means-end chain theory / Trinidad Espinosa Abascal -- 8. The interpreter as researcher: ethical heritage interpretation in Indigenous contexts / Chance Finegan.

Rural regions are experiencing fundamental challenges to their ways of life and social fabric, as traditional land-based occupations are in decline and younger and better-educated rural residents migrate to cities for greater work, social and cultural opportunities. Rural tourism offers a possible solution to the problems associated with lost economic opportunities and population decline that accompany the waning of agriculture. Many governments and regional authorities have embraced rural tourism as an opportunity to bring new money into rural regions, stimulating growth, providing employment.

Tourism and Tourism Spaces introduces students to the relationship between tourism, tourists, and the tourism spaces. The examination is at different levels - from local to global - and is informed by the discussion of three central processes: production, regulation, competition; consumption and commodification; and construction of tourist places and spaces.