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Tim Coles
Other affiliations: Royal Geographical Society, Bath Spa University
Bio: Tim Coles is an academic researcher from University of Exeter. The author has contributed to research in topics: Tourism & Tourism geography. The author has an hindex of 25, co-authored 103 publications receiving 2810 citations. Previous affiliations of Tim Coles include Royal Geographical Society & Bath Spa University.
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TL;DR: In this article, the authors argue that a holistic understanding of sustainable lifestyles is needed if effective behavioural change strategies for climate change are to be developed, revealing the complexities of contemporary environmental practices using data from a recent British Academy research project.
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TL;DR: A critical review of recent progress in research on corporate social responsibility (CSR) in tourism management, and possible directions for future research is presented in this paper, where the authors focus on three macrolevel topic areas: implementation, economic rationale for acting more responsibly, and social relations of CSR.
244 citations
02 Aug 2004
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors connect tourism, Diaspora, and space in the context of tourism and third space populations, and discuss the challenges and opportunities of tourism in the third space.
Abstract: 1. 'My Field is the World': Connecting Tourism, Diaspora and Space Part 1: Diasporic Experiences of Tourism 2. Tourism and Third Space Populations: The Restless Motion of Diaspora Peoples 3. Conceptualizing Return Visits: A Transnational Perspective 4. Tourism, Racism and the UK Afro-Caribbean Diaspora 5. Linking Diasporas and Tourism: Transnational Mobilities of Pacific Islanders Resident in New Zealand 6. Jewish Past as a 'Foreign Country': The Travel Experiences of American Jews 7. American Children of the African Diaspora: Journeys to the Motherland 8. Preparation, Simulation and the Creation of Community: Exodus and the Case of Diaspora Education Tourism 9. 'To Stand in the Shoes of my Ancestors': Tourism and Genealogy Part 2: Settings and Spaces for Diaspora Tourism 10. The 'Isle Of Home' Is Always on Your Mind: Subjectivity and Space at Ellis Island Immigration Museum 11. The Culture of Tourism in the Diaspora: The Case of the Vietnamese Community in Australia 12. Mobilizing Hrvatsko: Tourism and Politics in the Croatian Diaspora 13. Sojourners, Gangxi and Clan Associations: Social Capital and Overseas Chinese Tourism to China Part 3: Mobilising Diasporas for Tourism 14. Diaspora, Cultural Capital and the Production of Tourism: Lessons from Enticing Jewish-Americans to Germany 15. Mae'n Bryd I Ddod Adref - It's Time to Come Home. Exploring the Contested Emotional Geographies of Wales 16. India and the Ambivalences of Diaspora Tourism 17. Reinventing Tulip Time: Evolving Diasporic Dutch Heritage Celebration in Holland (Michigan) 18. Selling Diaspora: Producing and Segmenting the Jewish Diaspora Tourism Market 19. Tourism and Diasporas: Current Issues and Future Opportunities
211 citations
TL;DR: This paper argued that tourism studies would benefit greatly from a post-disciplinary outlook, i.e. a direction beyond disciplines which is more problem-focused, based on more flexible modes of knowledge production, plurality, synthesis and s...
Abstract: In recent times there has been discussion about whether studies of tourism are variously a disciplinary, multi-disciplinary or inter-disciplinary pursuit and how these relate to the institutional landscapes and practices of higher education. For some academics, these discourses are somewhat arid, but we would contend they are vital as they serve to set the epistemological terms of references for tourism scholars and play a not insignificant role in orchestrating knowledge production about tourism. This paper revisits some of these concerns relating to disciplinarity, and it suggests that disciplines as we understand them today are an artefact of previous academic divisions of labour which still dominate current institutional regulatory regimes. The purpose of the paper is to suggest that tourism studies would benefit greatly from a post-disciplinary outlook, i.e. a direction ‘beyond disciplines’ which is more problem-focused, based on more flexible modes of knowledge production, plurality, synthesis and s...
192 citations
TL;DR: The authors argue that the needs of the disabled are far more complex than is currently being debated and argue for research on the disabled tourist to be part of wider studies of disability that encompass the social model of disability.
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TL;DR: Mobility has become an evocative keyword for the twenty-first century and a powerful discourse that creates its own effects and contexts as mentioned in this paper, and the concept of mobilities encompasses both the large-scale...
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TL;DR: Shove as discussed by the authors investigated the evolution of these changes, as well as the social meaning of the practices themselves, concluding that routine consumption is controlled by conceptions of normality and profoundly shaped by cultural and economic forces, and that habits are not just changing, but are changing in ways that imply escalating and standardizing patterns of consumption.
Abstract: Over the past few generations, expectations of comfort, cleanliness and convenience have altered radically, but these dramatic changes have largely gone unnoticed. This intriguing book brings together the sociology of consumption and technology to investigate the evolution of these changes, as well the social meaning of the practices themselves. Homes, offices, domestic appliances and clothes play a crucial role in our lives, but not many of us question exactly how and why we perform so many daily rituals associated with them. Showers, heating, air-conditioning and clothes washing are simply accepted as part of our normal, everyday lives, but clearly this was not always the case. When did the daily shower become de rigueur? What effect has air conditioning had on the siesta at one time an integral part of Mediterranean life and culture? This book interrogates the meaning and supposed normality of these practices and draws disturbing conclusions. There is clear evidence supporting the view that routine consumption is controlled by conceptions of normality and profoundly shaped by cultural and economic forces. Shove maintains that habits are not just changing, but are changing in ways that imply escalating and standardizing patterns of consumption. This shrewd and engrossing analysis shows just how far the social meanings and practices of comfort, cleanliness and convenience have eluded us.
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