Slow tourism : experiences and mobilities / edited by Simone Fullagar, Kevin Markwell and Erica Wilson.

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Bringing together scholars from the areas of tourism, leisure and cultural studies, eco-humanities and tourism management, this book examines the emerging phenomenon of slow tourism. The book explores the range of travel experiences that are part of growing consumer concerns with quality leisure time, environmental and cultural sustainability, as well as the embodied experience of place. Slow tourism encapsulates a range of lifestyle practices, mobilities and ethics that are connected to social movements such as slow food and cities, as well as specialist sectors such as ecotourism and voluntourism. The slow experience of temporality can evoke and incite different ways of being and moving, as well as different logics of desire that value travel experiences as forms of knowledge. Slow travel practices reflect a range of ethical-political positions that have yet to be critically explored in the academic literature despite the growth of industry discourse.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• 1 Simone Fullagar, Kevin Markwell, Erica Wilson: Starting slow: Thinking through slow mobilities and experiences
• 2 Chris Howard: Speeding up and slowing down: pilgrimage and slow travel through time
• 3 Kevin Moore: On the periphery of pleasure: hedonics, eudaimonics and slow travel
• 4 Stephen Wearing, Michael Wearing and Matthew McDonald: Slow'n down the town to let nature grow: Ecotourism, social justice and sustainability
• 5 C. Michael Hall: The contradictions and paradoxes of slow food: Environmental change, sustainability and the conservation of taste
• 6 Fabio Parasecoli and Paulo de Abreu e Lima : Eat your way through culture: Gastronomic tourism as performance and bodily experience
• 7 Margo Lipman and Laurie Murphy: "Make haste slowly": Environmental sustainability and willing workers on organic farms
• 8 Simone Fullagar: Gendered cultures of slow travel: women's cycle touring as alternative hedonism
• 9 Marg Tiyce and Erica Wilson: Wandering Australia: Independent travellers and slow journeys through time and space
• 10 Michael O'Regan: The truth of the body on random roads: the resurgence of hitchhiking and 'self-powered' practices
• 11 Julia Fallon: 'If you're making waves then you have to slow down': Slow tourism and canals
• 12 Suzanne de la Barre: Travellin' around on Yukon time in Canada's north
• 13 Meiko Murayama and Gavin Parker: 'Fast Japan, slow Japan': Shifting to slow tourism as a rural regeneration tool in Japan

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Simone Fullagar is an interdisciplinary sociologist who has published widely across the areas of health, leisure and tourism, using post-structuralist and feminist perspectives. She is Associate Professor in the Department of Tourism, Leisure, Hotel and Sport Management at Griffith Univerisity, Queensland, Australia.
Kevin Markwell is a cultural geographer whose research interests focus on the contributions that nature-based/eco/wildlife tourism make as tools for nature conservation. He is Associate Professor in the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Southern Cross University, NSW, Australia and is also Adjunct Associate Professor in Tourism at Divine Word University, Madang, Papua New Guinea.
Erica Wilson is Senior Lecturer in the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Southern Cross University. Erica teaches in the areas of sustainable tourism and special interest tourism, and her research publications reflect her scholarly interests in women's travel and adventure, work-life balance, sustainable tourism and critical approaches to tourism research.