Handbook on Tourism and Rural Community Development

Edited by Heather Mair, Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, University of Waterloo, Canada

Contents:

1 Introduction: understanding rural community development and
tourism in challenging times 1
Heather Mair

PART I CONCEPTUAL FOUNDATIONS
2 Understanding rural communities 15
Michael Woods
3 Understanding rural tourism 29
Donald G. Reid
4 Understanding rural development 41
Kelly Vodden, Mery Angeles Perez and Brady Reid

PART II EPISTEMOLOGICAL FOUNDATIONS,
PARADIGMS, AND WORLDVIEWS
5 Post-positivism and mixed methods research in rural tourism 62
Girish Prayag
6 Interpretive approaches to research with rural communities:
privileging emotion in tourism encounters 76
Meghan Muldoon
7 Decolonial pedagogies as a pathway to transformational
learning for rural community and tourism development 88
Christine N. Buzinde
8 Interpreting the social impacts of tourism-led rural
regeneration: the case of the Alps to Ocean (A2O) Cycle Trail 99
Michael Mackay, Nick Taylor, Harvey C. Perkins and Tracy Nelson
9 Building rapport à soi: thinking critically about rural
community tourism development 113
Keith Hollinshead and Heather Mair
10 Refusing tourism 125
tebrakunna country, Emma Lee and Bryan S.R. Grimwood

PART III KEY CONCEPTUALIZATIONS
11 Gender and rural tourism 140
Katherine Dashper
12 Food, tourism, and rural community development: close
encounters of the nourishing kind? 153
Jennifer Sumner
13 Heritage, heritage interpretation and rural tourism 166
Bernard Lane
14 Climate change 180
Mark C.J. Stoddart and Yixi Yang
15 Tourism: vulnerability and resiliency in rural regions 194
David W. Marcouiller
16 Degrowing rural tourism development: thinking globally to
save the local 205
Alexander Safonov and C. Michael Hall
17 Understanding a multifunctional rural tourism landscape:
a case study of the Upper Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia 218
Sinead Francis-Coan and Annæ Buchmann
18 Creatively regenerating St. Jacobs Village 235
Tawsif Dowla and Karla A. Boluk

PART IV PROCESSES AND PRACTICES
19 Ethical considerations for rural community tourism 254
Tazim Jamal and Blanca Camargo
20 Sustainable tourism development in rural areas: an alternative
paradigm using the appreciative inquiry approach 272
Roslizawati Che Aziz
21 Tourism governance for rural community well-being:
challenges and creative opportunities 286
Gianna Moscardo
22 “Salvaging” presence: tourism as regional development
strategies for rural communities 301
Dominic Lapointe
23 Rural communities, tourism, and the roles of academics 316
Bernard Lane

PART V EMERGING MATTERS AND NEW DIRECTIONS
24 Community events, rural–urban interdependencies, and rural
community development 332
Kyle Rich
25 Centering animals within rural tourism 344
Carol Kline
26 Shifting from benefiting to serving community: a case of
regenerative tourism and building cultural capital through the
Children’s University Tasmania 359
Can-Seng Ooi and Becky Shelley
27 Exploring the regenerative practices of Canadian women
tourism social entrepreneurs: a feminist ethic of care 373
Karla A. Boluk, Gaurav Panse, and Sung Eun Jeon
28 Transforming a dogsledding community: the ‘Gafsele Open’
and lifestyle migrants in sparsely populated northern Sweden 386
Marco Eimermann, Doris A. Carson and Linda Lundmark
29 Traveling workers as rural tourists: extending understandings
from Tibetan travelers 403
Xiaotao Yang
30 Conclusion: inspiring a radical politics of
community-controlled rural tourism 417
Heather Mair

Index