25 YEARS OF GLOBAL TOURISM CAMPAIGNING – BOOK PUBLISHED
The Thailand-based Ecumenical Coalition on Tourism has published an anniversary book covering its 25 years of high-profile tourism campaigning.
Edited by Caesar d’Mello, the book is called ‘Transforming / Reforming Tourism. Perspectives on Justice and Humanity in Tourism’
The book is available from [email protected] at a cost of US$10 plus shipping costs.
Divided into themes, the book includes:
“Tourism as a tool for building a world community with articles by Tricia Barnett, Rosemary Viswanath, Annette Groth and Judith Almeida look at the ethical, economic, environmental and gender dimensions of global tourism.
“ Tourism and Development†consists of three contributions from Jeff Wild argues for the necessity of Julia Schornhall and Shirley Susan explores in some detail the nexus between tour
“Tourism and Faith Perspectives†with contributions from Archbishop Agostino Marchetto and Anthony Sukthawee Suwannachairop. Muhammad Abdus Sabu
“Tourism and Environment, two short essays and an interview with Oliver Hillel (of UNEP) are included.
“Regional perspectives†and “Case studies†provide glimpses and snapshots of the diverse impacts of modern tourism on Nations and local communities.
Ron O’Grady’s post script “The end and the beginning†consolidates the book’s message for readers and for ECOT.
A most surprising aspect of the book, perhaps, is the poetry of Cecil Rajendra appended below each section. He narrates a deepening sense of alienation and an intensified experience of loss in the hyper-real consumerist world. The drastic scaling down of expectations and aspirations of fishers, farmers and folks at large caused by the disempowering imperatives of global tourism is innovatively captured in the deep and dark poetic imageries of emerging realities:
“The bulldozers, tractors and tourists have moved in with a vengeance; hotels duty-free shops, cafes and chalets have sprung like fungi.
As the bewildered villagers are pushed off their land to make way for another billion-dollar condominium they begin to question which was the greater burden
Mashuri’s or our Century’s Curse of dust and development?â€
(Cecil Rajendra, “Lankawi, Mashuri and the 21st Centuryâ€)
Review compliments of the Ecumenical Coalition on Tourism
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