Tourism and the Spectre of Unlimited Change - Living With Tourism in a Turkish Village Revisited

This insightful volume tracks the tourism development and associated social change in the small town of Göreme, in Turkey's Cappadocia region, within the last two decades.

List of contents

1. Introduction 2. Four decades of Living with Tourism: from limited to unlimited good 3. Ups and downs of hot-air balloons over two decades 4. In search of the perfect self(ie): making stories, narrating self 5. Changing life in the mahalle: neighbourhoods, gentrification and displacement 6. Frontier of change: from being kapali to crafting new selves 7. Sticky memories, hopes, and dreams 8. "Enough! (Yeter!)"

About the author

Hazel Tucker has a Ph.D. in Social Anthropology from the University of Durham and is Professor of Tourism at the University of Otago, New Zealand. Specialising in the area of tourism's influences on socio-cultural relationships and change, Professor Tucker publishes also on gender and tourism, colonialism/postcolonialism, and emotional dimensions of tourism encounters. She serves as Associate Editor of Annals of Tourism Research and is an associate at Equality in Tourism.

Summary

This insightful volume tracks the tourism development and associated social change in the small town of Göreme, in Turkey’s Cappadocia region, within the last two decades.

Product details

• Authors: Hazel Tucker, Tucker Hazel
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 05.02.2024
• EAN: 9780367429577
• ISBN: 978-0-367-42957-7
• No. of pages: 252
• Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Media, communication > Communication science; Hospitality industry, Turkey, Tourism industry, Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries, tourism;overtourism;turkey;village;longitudinal, Turkey: Central Anatolia Region