Overview
- The first book of its kind to consider tourism itself as a phenomenon of human culture
- Deals with philosophical questions connected with tourism as a cultural phenomenon characteristic of our present age
- Questions the meaning and importance of tourism from a variety of philosophical standpoints
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Table of contents (21 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Philosophical Aspects of Tourism and Travel from Ancient Times to Modernity
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Aesthetic and Cultural Aspects of Tourism in Philosophical Perspective
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Postmodernist and Phenomenological Aspects of Travel and Tourism
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Ethics of Tourism
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About this book
This book offers a philosophical approach to tourism as a permanent factor in the lifestyle, economy, and culture of the contemporary global community. Travel to well-known destinations and pursuit of an ever-increasing range of leisure activities are an aspiration of most humans today. Those not themselves engaged in tourist activities are quite often involved in providing the goods and services which make tourism possible. Yet the ill effects of mass tourism and overtourism on sensitive ecosystems, resources, and community life have begun to outweigh economic gains, threatening to destroy destinations, cultural heritage, and livelihoods. The editors and contributors of this collection reflect on the nature and meaning of tourism, its history, elements, and forms, the roles of tourist and host, the limits of hospitality, tendencies to excess and the reasons why we engage in such forms of behaviour, and the place of tourism in human culture as a whole. By shedding light on these questions, more efficacious solutions to the urgent problems raised by the practice of tourism can be found. This work is a must-read for scholars, teachers, and students engaged in study and research on philosophy of culture, philosophical anthropology, tourist and destination management, human factors engineering, and sustainability.
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Marie-Élise Zovko is a Senior Research Fellow with tenure at the Institute of Philosophy, Zagreb, Croatia, specialising in Platonism, Spinoza, Kant, German idealism and Romantic philosophy.
John M. Dillon is Professor Emeritus, a Classicist, Philosopher, and internationally renowned expert on Platonism. Professor Dillon taught at the University of California, Berkeley, USA (1969–1980), and served as Regius Professor of Classics, Trinity College Dublin, Ireland (1980–2006).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Tourism and Culture in Philosophical Perspective
Editors: Marie-Élise Zovko, John Dillon
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36659-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Religion and Philosophy, Philosophy and Religion (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36658-1Published: 11 November 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-36661-1Due: 27 January 2024
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-36659-8Published: 10 November 2023
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 295
Number of Illustrations: 1 b/w illustrations
Topics: Philosophy, general, Cultural Theory, Business Ethics, Aesthetics, Tourism Management, Tourism Management