Slow Tourism

<p>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.</p>