Dr ESTHER BOTT's Outputs (7)

Orphanage Tourism in Nepal: Poverty, Childhood, and the Rescue Industry (2025)
Book
Bott, E. (2025). Orphanage Tourism in Nepal: Poverty, Childhood, and the Rescue Industry. Anthem Press

This book tackles, for the first time, the complex issues surrounding the phenomenon of orphanage tourism, which is a growing and highly lucrative tourism niche in Nepal and several other economically developing countries. The book explores the occur... Read More about Orphanage Tourism in Nepal: Poverty, Childhood, and the Rescue Industry.

Global Tourism (2023)
Book Chapter
Bott, E. (2023). Global Tourism. In Research Handbook on the Sociology of Globalization (108-116). Edward Elgar Publishing

Daily Bread: Women’s Self-Help Microfinance and the Social Meanings of Money (2022)
Journal Article
Bott, E., Ojha, S., Mini, S., Smyth, A. R., Kamal Kumar, R., Choudhary, S., & Yaron, G. (2023). Daily Bread: Women’s Self-Help Microfinance and the Social Meanings of Money. Sociological Research Online, 28(2), 442-461. https://doi.org/10.1177/13607804211058745

In this article, we explore the impacts and implications of ‘Rojiroti’, a women’s self-help group (SHG) microfinance scheme operating in poor communities in Bihar, India. We focus particularly on how improvements found in women’s circumstances and in... Read More about Daily Bread: Women’s Self-Help Microfinance and the Social Meanings of Money.

‘My dark heaven’: Hidden voices in orphanage tourism (2020)
Journal Article
Bott, E. (2021). ‘My dark heaven’: Hidden voices in orphanage tourism. Annals of Tourism Research, 87, Article 103110. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2020.103110

Literature on orphanage tourism considers the motives of Western volunteers and the problematic nature of their compulsion to ‘help’ vulnerable children in the Global South. Orphanage tourism is also increasingly adopted into ‘rescue ideologies’ (How... Read More about ‘My dark heaven’: Hidden voices in orphanage tourism.

'Frontier Climbing' in the Wild, Wild East (2018)
Book Chapter
Bott, E. (2018). 'Frontier Climbing' in the Wild, Wild East. In H. Saul, & E. Waterton (Eds.), Affective Geographies of Transformation, Exploration and Adventure: Rethinking Frontiers. Taylor and Francis

This chapter explores certain tensions in the often contradictory and always subjective notions of 'adventures' and 'frontiers' in overlapping dimensions through the context of rock-climbing tourism in Li Ming in remote southern China. It also explor... Read More about 'Frontier Climbing' in the Wild, Wild East.

Among the piranhas: the troubling lifespan of ethnic tropes in “tribal” tourism to Vietnam (2018)
Journal Article
Bott, E. (2018). Among the piranhas: the troubling lifespan of ethnic tropes in “tribal” tourism to Vietnam. Journal of Sustainable Tourism, 26(8), 1291-1307. https://doi.org/10.1080/09669582.2018.1435669

This article presents findings from mixed-method research into ethnic tourism in Vietnam. Drawing on critical discourse analysis and ethnographic research carried out in Sapa, northern Vietnam, the article examines how minority Indigenous groups are... Read More about Among the piranhas: the troubling lifespan of ethnic tropes in “tribal” tourism to Vietnam.

‘You can never cross the same river twice’: climbers’ embodied quests for ‘original adventure’ in southern Thailand (2014)
Journal Article
Bott, E. (2015). ‘You can never cross the same river twice’: climbers’ embodied quests for ‘original adventure’ in southern Thailand. Tourist Studies, 15(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797614550959

This article presents ethnographic research into individual narratives of adventure in a small, undeveloped bay called Ton Sai in southern Thailand’s Krabi Province. Ton Sai is extremely popular with Western rock climbers and increasingly with other... Read More about ‘You can never cross the same river twice’: climbers’ embodied quests for ‘original adventure’ in southern Thailand.