Tourism Paradoxes

This innovative, timely text is essential reading for students and researchers seeking to comprehend the controversial, complex and messy nature of tourism. The editors deserve high praise for their courage and foresight in bringing together a diverse range of knowledgeable contributors to produce this valuable, thought-provoking, and erudite volume.

* Donna Chambers, University of Sunderland, UK *
This important new book manages to scratch below the surface of some of the inherent complexities of tourism development. Highlighting non-western discourses, and addressing contradictions inherent in theorisations of power, colonialism and identities in tourism, the novel and stimulating examples in this powerful book provoke a re-evaluation of the intricacies and subtleties of tourism in contemporary societies. * Scott McCabe, University of Nottingham, UK *
This inspiring book demonstrates the power of paradoxical thinking and how it reveals the messiness and contradictory character of the tourism phenomenon. An excellent read for anybody interested in matters of colonization, post-colonization and decolonization in tourism, the cases and analysis presented in this volume help us to shatter simplistic views and binary divisions in the understanding of tourism development. * Ana María Munar, Copenhagen Business School, Denmark *

This book opens up a set of dialogues about some aspects of tourism. It encourages the reader to think carefully and critically about their perspectives on tourism and that is an achievement.

-- Geoffrey Wall, University of Waterloo, Canada * Tourism, Culture & Communication, Vol. 22 *

With the diverse, yet individually detailed contributions [this book] achieves the aim of not just illustrating tourism paradoxes but to provoke thinking with and through them. The well-considered overarching themes of the volume are of continuous relevance for tourism scholars, though the everchanging nature of these certainly allows for different interpretation and understanding of the book’s content over time.

-- Marie Nowak, Dalarna University, Mid-Sweden University, Sweden * European Journal of Tourism Research, Vol. 30 *

One of the strengths of this edited book is that it moves away from binaries that are simplistic and reductionist in tourism scholarship and instead accentuates the importance of engaging with non-Western discourses in studying contemporary issues in tourism contexts as well as addressing paradoxes that are inherent in notions of colonialism, identities, and power in tourism research. In addition, the chapters of this edited book go beyond exploring what paradoxes are and instead focus on what paradoxes can do.

-- Pooneh Torabian, University of Otago Business School, New Zealand * Tourism Geographies, 2021 *

This volume is an important contribution to tourism studies. In providing a neutral structure/rubric to examine conflicting factors and desired results, the editors offer a flexible structure to study the ever-changing landscape of global tourism in all its messy complexity. 

-- S. A. Schulman, CUNY Baruch College, USA * CHOICE, November 2022 Vol. 60 No.