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Hospitality of Sustainable Tourism Encounters: Experiences from Nicaragua

Author :	Emily Höckert
School/Work Place :	University of Lapland, Finland
Contact :	emily.hockert@ulapland.fi
Year :	2014

Global tourism is, at least to some extent, based upon to the vast inequalities between wealthy and impoverished (Cole & Morgan 2010, xv). Neglecting, or actively forgetting, the legacy of colonialism and the modern forms of economic and political exploitation is epistemic violence (see Spivak 1988) that forms a pertinent part of neoliberal orthodoxy. The general aim of this paper is to bring under the scrutiny the global inequalities in contemporary tourism encounters and to revision possibilities of deconstructed binaries between self and other in the future alternatives of tourism development.

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Tag :: sustainable tourism; community-based tourism; tourism encounters; ethical relationships

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