Negotiating Hospitality : Ethics of Tourism Development in the Nicaraguan Highlands / Emily Höckert.

By: Höckert, Emily [author.]Material type: TextTextSeries: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and MobilityPublisher: London : Taylor and Francis, 2018Edition: First editionDescription: 1 online resource (xi, 208 pages)Content type: text Media type: computer Carrier type: online resourceISBN: 9781315147604Subject(s): Hospitality industry -- Moral and ethical aspects | Tourism -- Moral and ethical aspectsAdditional physical formats: Print version:: No titleDDC classification: 174.9647 LOC classification: TX911.3.E84 | H63 2018Online resources: Click here to view.
Contents:
chapter 1 Introduction / Emily Höckert -- chapter 2 The ethics of hospitality / Emily Höckert -- chapter 3 Unconditional welcome of tourism to Nicaragua / Emily Höckert -- chapter 4 Negotiating the conditions for rural hospitality / Emily Höckert -- chapter 5 Envisioning hospitable encounters / Emily Höckert -- chapter 6 Conclusion / Emily Höckert.
Summary: "How do hosts and guests welcome each other in responsible tourism encounters? This book addresses the question in a longitudinal ethnographic study on tourism development in the coffee-cultivating communities in Nicaragua. The research follows the trail of development practitioners and researchers who travel with a desire to help, teach and study the local hosts. On a broader level, it is a journey exploring why these guests, as tourists proper, expect unconditional hospitality in their encounters with rural communities. The theoretical approach bases itself on the ethical subjectivity as responsibility and receptivity towards the other. The ideas put forward in the book suggest that hospitality, responsibility and participation all require a readiness to interrupt ones own ways of doing, knowing and being. This book provides a conceptual tool to facilitate reflection on alternative ways of doing togetherness between ourselves and will be of interest to students and researchers of Hospitality, Tourism, Development Studies, Cultural Studies and Anthropology."--Provided by publisher.
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chapter 1 Introduction / Emily Höckert -- chapter 2 The ethics of hospitality / Emily Höckert -- chapter 3 Unconditional welcome of tourism to Nicaragua / Emily Höckert -- chapter 4 Negotiating the conditions for rural hospitality / Emily Höckert -- chapter 5 Envisioning hospitable encounters / Emily Höckert -- chapter 6 Conclusion / Emily Höckert.

"How do hosts and guests welcome each other in responsible tourism encounters? This book addresses the question in a longitudinal ethnographic study on tourism development in the coffee-cultivating communities in Nicaragua. The research follows the trail of development practitioners and researchers who travel with a desire to help, teach and study the local hosts. On a broader level, it is a journey exploring why these guests, as tourists proper, expect unconditional hospitality in their encounters with rural communities. The theoretical approach bases itself on the ethical subjectivity as responsibility and receptivity towards the other. The ideas put forward in the book suggest that hospitality, responsibility and participation all require a readiness to interrupt ones own ways of doing, knowing and being. This book provides a conceptual tool to facilitate reflection on alternative ways of doing togetherness between ourselves and will be of interest to students and researchers of Hospitality, Tourism, Development Studies, Cultural Studies and Anthropology."--Provided by publisher.

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