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Class & Due Dates

Unpacking Tourism

January
16     Introduction to Travel Worlds course: In-class work, and video: Trekking on
          Tradition

23 Tourism and Sustainability (Mowforth & Munt), Chapters 1-3, pp. 1-83.
[R] Urry, John, “The Tourist Gaze Revisited”
                video: Global Tourism

30 Assignment 1 Due.
Tourism and Sustainability, Chapter 4, pp. 84-124
Life and Death on Mt. Everest, Chapters 1-3, pp. 3-89
[R] Hollinshead, Keith and Tazim B. Jamal, “Delving into Discourse: Excavating the Inbuilt Power-Logic(s) of Tourism”

February
6   Tourism and Sustainability, Chapters 5-6, pp. 125-187
[R] Vivanco, Luis, “Spectacular Quetzals, Ecotourism, and Environmental Futures in Monte Verde, Costa Rica”
video: TBA

13 Tourism and Sustainability, Chapter 7, pp. 188-236
Life and Death on Mt. Everest, Chapters 4-5, pp. 90-148
Assignment 2 Due

Eco-tourism and ego-tourism in the Third World

20 Life and Death on Mt. Everest, Chapter 6-7, pp. 149-216
[R] McLaren, Deborah, Rethinking Tourism and Ecotravel., Chapter 5, “Rethinking ecotravel”
[R] Belsky, Jill, “The Meaning of the Manatee”
           Assignment 3: RTP and TIES [web sites and analysis of ecotourism].

27          Tourism and Sustainability, Chapter 8, pp.237-279
              Life and Death on Mt. Everest, Chapter 8, pp. 217-247
               Assignment 3 Due 

March
     6      Guest Speaker: Luis Vivanco
             [R] Vivanco, L., “The International Year of Ecotourism in an Age of Uncertainty”
                  Tourism and Sustainability, Chapter 9, pp. 280-317
             RTP (Rethinking Tourism Project) 
             Pleumarom, Anita, “Do We Need the International Year of Ecotourism?” 
             At: http://www.twnside.org.sg/title/iye1.htm
 

13         Life and Death on Mt. Everest, Chapter 9-10 (Epilogue), pp. 248-293

 Spring Break

Tourism and Terrorism

27   [R] Mansfield, Yoel, “Cycles of War, Terror & Peace: Determinants and Management of Crisis
 and Recovery of the Israeli Tourism Industry.”
        [R] Adams, Kathleeen, "Danger-zone tourism..." 
       [R]  Kaur, R., and John Hutnyk, Travel Worlds, Chapter 7 (Peter Phipps). “Tourists, Terrorists, 
              Death and Value,” pp. 74-89.
        Assignment 4 Due

Culture, Bodies, and Governmentality
April
3     Staging Tourism: Bodies on Display from Waikiki to Sea World., Desmond,  Jane, Intro-Chapter 2 (“Picturing Hawaii). Pp. xiii-59.
        [R] Castaneda, Quetzil, "Maya Mysteries, Mirror for Man"
        video: Incidents of Travel in Chichen Itza

10   Staging Tourism, Chapter 3-Conclusion(“Pictures Come to Life)”pp.60-141. 
 

17 Staging Tourism, Part Two: "Staging the Natural," Intro.-Chapter 8 ("Looking at Animals," pp. 144-216
[R] Adams, Kathleen, “The Genesis of Touristic Imagery: Politics and Poetics in the Creation of a Remote Indonesian Island Destination.”
[R] Michel Picard and R.E. Wood, Tourism, Ethnicity and the State in Asian and Pacific Societies,
Chapter 7, “Cultural Tourism, Nation-Building, and Regional Culture: The Making of a Balinese Identity,” pp. 181-206.
video: Sight Unseen
      Assignment 5 Due

24 Staging Tourism, Part Two: Chapter 9 ("Performing Nature")-Conclusion, pp.
   217-266.
   [R] Teresia Teaiwa, “bikinis, and other s/pacific n/oceans”

May
1 Final Exam
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

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Last updated, October 11, 2000
Contact Chuck at: cdeburlo@zoo.uvm.edu