Slow Tourism, Food and Cities

Pace and the Search for the "Good Life"
Herausgeber: Clancy, Michael

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book provides an in-depth examination of slow food, tourism and cities, demonstrating how these elements are intertwined with each other and the larger slow movement, as part of the modern search for "the good life." While slow tourism has been present as a concept and practice for years, organizationally and conceptually its principles are still emerging. This book systematically treats food, cities and tourism within the context of the larger alternative lifestyle movement with examples from Europe, USA and Brazil. Part 1 locates the 'slow' concept within the larger social setting of modernity and investigates claims made by the slow movement. It examines both the aesthetic and instrumental values behind the movement. Part 2 explores the practices and places of slow, containing both conceptual and empirical chapters. Finally, part 3 looks at the emergence of slow food, tourism and cities in a comparative perspective by examining the practices from Spain, UK, Germany and Brazil.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: CRC Press
• Seitenzahl: 248
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. August 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 241mm x 161mm x 22mm
• Gewicht: 504g
• ISBN-13: 9781138920910
• ISBN-10: 1138920916
• Artikelnr.: 42744317

Autorenporträt

Michael Clancy is Professor of political science in the Department of Politics, Economics, and International Studies at the University of Hartford, USA. He is the author of two books on tourism and development in Mexico and Ireland, respectively, and has written on various aspects of tourism and political economy.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: The rise of slow in a fast world Part I: Locating Slow:
the philosophical and sociological roots of the Slow movement 2. "Travel
too fast and you miss all you travel for": slower mobilities and the
politics of pace 3. Slow tourism: a theoretical framework 4. Slow travel
and tourism: new concept or new label? 5. Practicing Slow: political and
ethical implications Part II: Places and practices of Slow 6. Creative
tourism as slow tourism 7. Slow food in slow tourism 8. Slow and
intelligent cities: when slow is also smart 9. Between slow tourists and
operators: expectations and implications of a strategic cross-border
proposal 10. Cittàslow: the Emilia-Romagna case Part III: Comparative
perspectives 11. Successful integration of slow and sustainable tourism: a
case study of food tourism in the alpine region of Algovia, Germany 12. The
experiential value of slow tourism: a Spanish perspective 13. Embedding
slow tourism and the 'Slow Phases' framework: the case of Cambridge, UK 14.
Drinking in the good life: tourism mobilities and the slow movement in wine
country 15. Conclusion: the promises and pitfalls of slow