Host communities and last chance tourism

Abstract

Last Chance Tourism (LCT) has emerged in recent years as an adaptive response of the global tourism industry to the threats and opportunities of climate change. Referring to the act of travellers explicitly seeking out natural and/or cultural attractions that they deem to be at threat, LCT occurs in many of the World’s most iconic and fragile tourism destination regions. While academic scholarship around LCT grows, authors are beginning to question the lack of attention paid to LCT’s theoretical underpinnings. One potential contribution is Lefebvre’s notion of a Three-Fold view of space, encompassing the interrelated forces of: spatial practice, representations of space, and spaces of representation as a conceptual framing for understanding the spatial dimensions of LCT in Churchill (Canada). Demonstrating both the totality of space and the interrelated nature of its constituent parts, Lefebvre’s view of space offers a foundation for future empirical work looking to explore the host community perspective on LCT.

摘要

告别游是近年来全球旅游业对气候变化的威胁和机遇做出的适应性反应。告别游指的是游客明确地寻找他们认为受到威胁的自然和/或文化景点的行为, 告别游发生在世界上许多极具标志性和脆弱性的旅游目的地区域。随着围绕告别游的学术研究的增长, 作者们开始质疑对告别游的理论基础的关注不足。对告别游进行理论解释的一个潜在的贡献是列斐伏尔空间三重性的观点, 包括了相互联系的力量:空间实践、空间表征和表征空间。我们将之作为理解加拿大丘吉尔城空间维度的概念框架。列斐伏尔的空间观既展示了空间的整体性, 又展示了空间各组成部分之间的相互联系, 为未来从东道主社区的视角探索告别游的实证工作提供了基础。

Keywords:

• Last chance tourism
• climate change
• spatial practices
• representations of space
• spaces of representations
• Churchill

关键词:

• 告别游；气候变化；空间实践；空间表征；表征空间；丘吉尔城

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Notes on contributors

Stephen Schweinsberg

Dr Stephen Schweinsberg is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Technology Sydney. His research has explored aspects of leadership for sustainable tourism, tourism’s place based setting and tourism development in national parks.

Stephen Wearing

Dr Stephen Wearing is an Adjunct Professor at the University of Technology Sydney. He has conducted numerous projects and lectures worldwide and is the author of 17 books and over 200 articles dealing with issues surrounding leisure, community development and sustainable tourism.

Po-Hsin Lai

Dr Po-Hsin Lai is a Lecturer in Newcastle Business School at the University of Newcastle, Australia. Her research focuses on the dynamic processes of place meanings and landscape representations and implications for relevant stakeholders in the context of change driven by resource use activities such as tourism, outdoor recreation, mining and urban sprawl primarily in rural environments and protected areas.