By Garth Lean, Russell Staiff
Trip and tourism have a protracted organization with the concept of transformation, either when it comes to self and social collectives. what's mind-blowing, in spite of the fact that, is this organization has, more often than not, remained quite underexplored and unchallenged, with little within the means of a corpus of educational literature surrounding those issues. as a substitute, a lot of the literature to this point has concentrated upon describing and categorising tourism and trip reports from a supply-side viewpoint, with travelers themselves outlined when it comes to their motivations and pursuits. whereas the tourism box can lay declare to numerous major milestone contributions, there were few fresh makes an attempt at a rigorous re-theorization of the problems coming up from the travel/transformation nexus. the chance to discover the socio-cultural dimensions of transformation via shuttle has to date been ignored. Bringing jointly geographers, sociologists, cultural researchers, philosophers, anthropologists, visible researchers, literary students and history researchers, this quantity explores what it skill to rework via shuttle in a contemporary, cellular international. In doing so, it attracts upon a wide selection of traveler views - together with travelers, backpackers, way of life guests, migrants, refugees, nomads, walkers, writers, poets, digital visitors and plastic surgery sufferers - to unpack a cultural phenomenon that has captured the mind's eye because the first actual works of Western literature.
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How is it that we are alert to the pain of the exile, the yearnings of the dispossessed, the liminal experiences of backpackers and overseas volunteers, the anguish of forced migration, the desire to change our bodies, the quest for selfknowledge, the journeys of outsiders, artists and poets, the need for transcendence, the search for ‘wholeness’ in places/worlds deemed fractured, splintered and empty of meaning? The visibility, the understanding and the emotional resonances – often powerfully evoked and felt – by individual subjects that we meet in this collection are, in turn, dependent on our ability as readers to not just empathise but recognise and know.
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Lifestyle Travel, Tropophila and Identity Transformation 37 Felicity stressed the value of Couch Surfing for transforming the self in this way. Rather than merely spectating from the peripheries, Couch Surfing allowed her to participate and engage with place, to temporarily become a part of it through activity. Participation meant lifestyle travellers reciprocally acted within place and proactively tested themselves in a new environment: It’s easier to go to a place and look at it from the eyes of a tourist you know, wander round and you’re almost just consuming the place, visually and passively, you’re not really participating.