Tourism culture: Nexus, characteristics, context and sustainability

Canavan, Brendan

Abstract

This article makes the case for tourism culture; the new cultural expressions, practises and identities, influenced by hosts, guests and industry context, which may develop in destinations, as a useful perspective with which to draw together various conceptual narratives within the tourism studies literature. Research in three small islands finds evidence of a distinctive cultural landscape which emerges from the interaction of host and guest cultures, and the exchange, change and creativity that results. Tourism industry dynamics are found to facilitate or undermine this process, as in turn they may be influenced by. This tourism culture has implications for the continuation and evolution of indigenous culture, as it does for the absorption of elements of tourist cultures. The emergent fusion may be symptomatic of a richer cultural landscape and might be considered as an indicator of more sustainable communities and forms of tourism development.

Citation

Canavan, B. (2016). Tourism culture: Nexus, characteristics, context and sustainability. Tourism Management, 53, 229-243. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2015.10.002

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Oct 1, 2015
• Online Publication Date: Nov 5, 2015
• Publication Date: 2016-04
• Deposit Date: Jul 5, 2021
• Publicly Available Date: Jul 6, 2021
• Journal: Tourism Management
• Print ISSN: 0261-5177
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 53
• Pages: 229-243
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tourman.2015.10.002
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/5757719
• Publisher URL: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0261517715300224