Ethnic Tourism as Knowing Other

Ethnic Tourism and Cultural Representation

The representation of minority culture is central to ethnic tourism development. However, only limited attention has been paid to cultural representation in ethnic attractions. This research examines representations of multiple ethnic cultures in the Yunnan Ethnic Folk Villages, China. The perspectives from four key groups of stakeholders— governments, park managers, employees and tourists—are ...

Tourism as science and science as tourism: environment, society, self, and other in Papua New Guinea.

The experience of villagers in Maimafu, in the Crater Mountain Wildlife Management Area of the Eastern Highlands of Papua New Guinea, calls attention to two forms of social interaction between rural people and outsiders that have been little examined in the anthropological literature. One of these is scientific research and the other is scientific tourism, a form of ecotourism that is linked no...

Knowing each other in argumentation-based negotiation

Argumentation-based negotiation has emerged as an important topic in multi-agent systems over the last years. Although there are many studies of frameworks that enable agents to negotiate through the exchange of arguments, there is a lack of reasoning methods that employ the (usually incomplete) knowledge an agent may have about his opponent. This work addresses this issue by providing a reason...

Conceptualizing Urban Exploration as beyond Tourism and as Anti-tourism

Urban Exploration (U.E.), the activity of exploring hidden parts of the city, is increasingly discussed in a range of academic papers, yet the aspects of this activity which are associated with travel and consumption have not been explored. However, there have been a number of related calls for research. This paper identifies that U.E. requires greater critical inquiry. It is noted that U.E. dr...

2. Ecotourism and Other Forms of Tourism