- Title
- Cultural literacy: a technique to analyse cosmopolitanism in tourism research
- Creator
- Johnson, Patricia
- Relation
- 1st Annual International Conference on Tourism and Hospitality Research (THoR 2012). Proceedings of the 1st Annual Internatiuonal Conference on Tourism and Hospitality Research (Singapore 9-10 July, 2012) p. 66-69
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.5176/2251-3426_THoR1222
- Publisher
- Global Science and Technology Forum (GSTF)
- Resource Type
- conference paper
- Date
- 2012
- Description
- Cosmopolitanism has been studied from a number of scholarly perspectives as an idea, a notion, an ideology, a process, a condition of globalisation, a site of cultural contestation and a disposition. Despite obvious links to tourism, in areas such as mobility, cultural interaction, visitor experience, and destination image (to name a few) the study of cosmopolitanism has only recently begun to emerge in tourism research. Cosmopolitanism, like tourism, is a 'condition' of globalisation. Cosmopolitanism assumes conversancy in other cultures while maintaining a level of reflexivity about one's own, and tourism is an ideal environment to study the topic. This research paper reports on the initial stages of making inroads into rendering a useful conceptual tool that can be applied to study the workings of cosmopolitanism in tourism contexts.
- Subject
- cosmopolitanism; tourism research; cultural interactions; tourism
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1336548
- Identifier
- uon:27643
- Identifier
- ISSN:2251-3426
- Language
- eng
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