Overview

Tourism has become increasingly shaped by neoliberal policies, yet the consequences of this neoliberalisation are relatively under-explored. This book provides a wide-ranging inquiry into the particular manifestations of different variants of neoliberalism, highlighting its uneven geographical development and the changing dynamics of neoliberal policies in order to explain and evaluate the effects of neoliberal processes on tourism. Covering a variety of different aspects of neoliberalism and tourism, the chapters investigate how different types of tourism are used as part of more general neoliberalisation agendas, how neoliberalism differs according to the geographic context, the importance of discourse in shaping neoliberal practices and the different approaches of putting the neoliberal ideology into practice. Aiming to initiate debates about the connections between neoliberalism and tourism and advance further research avenues, this book makes a timely contribution which discusses the relationships between markets, nation-states and societies from a social science perspective. Neoliberalism is considered as a political-economic ideology, as variants of the global neoliberal project, as discourse and practices through which neoliberalism is enacted.

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Author:   Jan Mosedale
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.272kg
ISBN:  

9781032242545

ISBN 10:   103224254
Pages:   182
Publication Date:   13 December 2021
Audience:   College/higher education ,  General/trade ,  Tertiary & Higher Education ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

1. Introduction: Neoliberalism and the Political Economy of Tourism: Projects, Discourses and Practices Jan Mosedale 2. Contingent Neoliberalism and Urban Tourism in the United States Dimitri Ioannides and Evangelia Petridou 3. Mega-events as Neoliberal Projects: ‘realistic if we want Dunedin to prosper’ or ‘the biggest civic disgrace … in living memory’? C. Michael Hall and Sandra Wilson 4. The Changing Role of the State: Neoliberalism and Regional Tourism Development in New Zealand Michael C. Shone 5. Developing Markets – the Neoliberalization of Tourism Structures in Jordan: The Example of Aqaba Special Economic Zone Nicolai Scherle and Markus Pillmayer 6. Ecotourism as the Focus of the Neoliberal Tourism Project in India Kevin Hannam and Maharaj Vijay Reddy 7. The Changing Nature of National Parks under Neoliberalisation Dzingai K. Nyahunzvi 8. Social tourism: From redistribution to neoliberal aspiration development Lynn Minnaert 9. Enacting Neoliberal Discourses through Heritage Tourism in Ghana Francis Offeh and Kevin Hannam 10: Decommodifying Grass Roots Struggle Against a Neoliberal Tourism Agenda: Imagining a Local, Just and Sustainable Eco-tourism. Stephen Wearing and Michael Wearing 11: Conclusion: Tourism and Neoliberalism: States, the Economy and Society

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Jan Mosedale is Senior Lecturer and Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Tourism and Leisure of the University of Applied Sciences HTW Chur, Switzerland.

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