Slum Tourism the State of the Art Tourism Review International
Welcome to Lockdown Stories
Lockdown Stories emerged as a response to the COVID-19 crisis. The pandemic has impacted communities all around the world and has brought unprecedented challenges. In the favelas of Rio de Janeiro this included the loss of income and visibility from tourism on which community tourism and heritage projects depend. In that context, Lockdown Stories investigated how customs tourism providers responded, and what back up they needed to transform their projects in the new circumstances. In these times of isolation, Lockdown Stores aims to create new digital connections between communities across the world past sharing 'Lockdown Stories' through online virtual tours.
Nosotros are inviting yous to engage in this new virtual tourism platform and to virtually visit vi favelas in Rio de Janeiro: Cantagalo, Chapéu Mangueira, Babilônia, Providência, Rocinha and Santa Marta.
The tours are free but booking is required. All live tours are in Portuguese with English translation provided.
Tours happen through November and December, every Tuesday at vii pm (UK) / four pm (Brazil)
Please visit lockdownstories.travel where you can find out more about the project.
This research project is based on collaboration between the University of Leicester, the University of Rio de Janeiro and Bournemouth University and is funded by the University of Leicester QR Global Challenges with Research Fund (Enquiry England).
Call for Papers – Research Workshop
Touristification Impossible:
Tourism development, over-tourism and anti-tourism sentiments in context.
4thursday and fiveth June 2019, Leicester UK
TAPAM – Tourism and Placemaking Enquiry Unit – University of Leicester School of Business
Keynotes by Scott McCabe, Johannes Novy, Jillian Rickly and Julie Wilson
Touristification is a curious phenomenon, feared and desired in almost equal measure by policy makers, businesses and cultural producers, residents, social movements and last but not least, tourists themselves. Much current reflection on over-tourism, particularly urban tourism in Europe, where tourism is experienced equally an impossible burden on residents and cities, repeats older debates: tourism can be a blessing or blight, it brings economic benefits but costs in near all other areas. Anti-tourism social movements, residents and some tourists declare 'touristification impossible', asking tourists to stay away or pushing policy makers to use their powers to stop information technology. Such movements have become evident in the last x years in cities similar Barcelona and Athens and there is a growing reaction against overtourism in several metropolitan cities internationally.
This workshop sets out to re-consider (the impossibility of) touristification. Oftentimes, it is understood simplistically every bit a procedure in which a place, city, region, landscape, heritage or experience becomes an object of tourist consumption. This, of course, assumes an implicit or explicit transformation of a resource into a article and carries an inherent notion of refuse of value, from 'authentic' in its original state to 'commodified' later touristification. In other words, touristification is oftentimes seen as a process of 'selling out'. Simply a alter of perspective reveals the complexities involved. While some may promise to make touristification possible, it is sometimes actually very difficult and seemingly impossible: When places are unattractive, repulsive, controversial, hard and contested, how do they become tourist attractions? Arguably in such cases value is added rather than lost in the process of touristification. These situations crave a rethink not merely of the meaning of touristification, but the underlying processes in which it occurs. How do places become touristically attractive, how is attractiveness maintained and how is it lost? Which actors initiate, guide and dispense the process of touristification and what resources are mobilised?
The aim of this 2-day workshop is to provide an opportunity to challenge the simplistic and biased agreement of tourism as a forcefulness of practiced and touristification as desirable, so common among destination marketing consulting and mainstream scholarly literature. But it will equally question a simplistic simply frequent criticism of touristification every bit 'sell-out' and 'loss of authenticity'.
We invite scholars, researchers, practitioners and PhD students to submit conceptual and/or empirical work on this important theme. We welcome submissions around all aspects and manifestations of touristification (social, economic, spatial, environmental etc.) and, specially, explorations of anti-tourism protests and the furnishings of over-tourism. The workshop is open to all theoretical and methodological approaches. Nosotros are delighted to confirm keynote presentations by Scott McCabe, Jillian Rickly, Johannes Novy and Julie Wilson.
The workshop is organised by the Tourism and Placemaking Research Unit (TAPAM) of the School of Business and builds on our first research workshop final year on 'Troubled Attractions', which brought together over 30 academics from the UK and beyond.
The workshop format
The research workshop will take identify in the Academy of Leicester School of Business. It will combine invited presentations by established experts with panel discussions and research papers. Participants volition take the chance to network and socialize during a social consequence in the evening of Tuesday 4th June. At that place is small fee of £20 for participation. Registration includes workshop materials; lunch on 4th and fiveth June 2019 and social event on ivth June.
Guidelines for submissions
We invite submissions of abstracts (about 500 words) by 31st April 2019 . Abstracts should exist sent by email to: Fatos Ozkan Erciyas (foe2 (at) le.ac.uk).
Digital Technology, Tourism and Geographies of Inequality
Tourism is undergoing major changes in the advent of social media networks and other forms of digital technology. This has affected a number of tourism related processes including marketing, destination making, travel experiences and visitor feedback but also various tourism subsectors, similar hospitality, transportation and bout operators. Largely overlooked, however, are the effects of these changes on questions apropos inequality. Therefore, the aim of this session is to chart this relatively unexplored territory apropos the influence of technologically enhanced travel and tourism on development and inequality.
In the wake of the digital revolution and its emerging possibilities, early debates in tourism studies have been dominated past a belief that new technologies are able to overcome or at least reduce inequality. These technologies, arguably, have emancipatory potential, inter alia, by increasing the visibility of neglected groups, neighborhoods or areas, by lowering barriers of entry into tourism service provision for low-income groups or by democratizing the designation what is considered valuable heritage. They besides, however, may accept homogenizing effects, for case past subjecting formerly excluded spaces to global regimes of real estate speculation or by undermining existing labour market regimes and standards in the send and hospitality industries. These latter effects have played a part in triggering anti-tourism protests in a range of cities across the world.
In this session we aim, specifically, to interrogate these phenomena along 2 vectors: mobility and inequality.
Sponsor Groups: Recreation, Tourism, and Sport Specialty Group, Digital Geographies Specialty Group, Media and Communication Geography Specialty Group
Twenty-four hours: 03.04.2019
Start / End Time: 12:xl / 16:15
Room: Calvert Room, Omni, Lobby Level
All abstracts here:
Session 1
Session two
Sessions:
Touristified everyday life – mundane tourism: Current perspectives on urban tourism (Berlin eleven/12 May 2017)
briefing programme announced / call for registration
Tourism and other forms of mobility have a stronger influence on the urban everyday life than ever before. Current debates bespeak that this development inevitably entails conflicts between the various metropolis users. The various discussions basically evolve around the intermingling of ii categories traditionally treated as opposing in scientific inquiry: 'the everyday' and 'tourism'. The international conference Touristified everyday life – mundane tourism: Current perspectives on urban tourism addresses the complex and irresolute entanglement of the city, the everyday and tourism. Information technology is organized by the Urban Research Grouping 'New Urban Tourism' and will exist held at the Georg Simmel-Middle for Metropolitan Studies in Berlin.
May eleven, 2017, 4:15 – 5:00pm
KEYNOTE – Prof. Dr. Jonas Larsen (Roskilde University): ‚Tourism and the Everyday Practices' (KOSMOS-dialog series, admission is costless).
May 12, 2017, nine:00am – 6:00pm
PANELS – The Boggling Mundane, Encounters & Contact Zones, Urban (Tourism) Development (registration required).
See full conference programme HERE (pdf)
REGISTRATION
If you are interested in the panels yous need to register. An omnipresence fee of 40 € volition be charged to cover the expenses for the event. For students, trainees, unemployed, and the handicapped in that location is a reduced fee of 20 €.
For registration please fill out the registration course (pdf) and send it back until April 20, 2017 to:
Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Georg-Simmel-Zentrum für Metropolenforschung
Urban Enquiry Group 'New Urban Tourism'
Natalie Stors & Christoph Sommer
Unter den Linden 6
10099 Berlin
Yous tin also send u.s. the form by email.
https://newurbantourism.files.wordpress.com/2017/03/conference-programme.pdf
From Stigma to Brand:
Commodifying and Aestheticizing Urban Poverty and Violence
Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich, February 16-18, 2017
The preliminary programme has at present been published and can be downloaded here.
For attendance, please annals at stigma2brand (at) ethnologie.lmu.deast
Posters presenting on-going enquiry projects related to the briefing theme are welcome.
Convenors:
Prof. Dr. Eveline Dürr (LMU Munich, Germany)
Prof. Dr. Rivke Jaffe (University of Amsterdam, Holland)
Prof. Dr. Gareth Jones (London School of Economics and Politics, United kingdom of great britain and northern ireland)
This conference investigates the motives, processes and effects of the commodification and global representation of urban poverty and violence. Cities have ofttimes hidden from view those urban areas and populations stigmatized as poor, dirty and dangerous. However, a growing range of actors actively seek to highlight the beingness and appeal of "ghettos", "slums" and "no-get areas", in attempts to attract visitors, investors, cultural producers, media and civil society organisations. In cities beyond the globe, processes of place-making and place-marketing increasingly resignify urban poverty and violence to indicate authenticity and creativity. From "slum tourism" to "favela chic" parties and "ghetto fabulous" fashion, these economic and representational practices often approach urban deprivation every bit a viable make rather than a marking of shame.
The briefing explores how urban misery is transformed into a consumable product. It seeks to sympathise how the commodification and aestheticization of fierce, impoverished urban spaces and their residents affects urban imaginaries, the built surroundings, local economies and social relations.
What are the consequences for cities and their residents when poverty and violence are turned into fashionable consumer experiences? How is urban space transformed by these processes and how are social relationships reconfigured in these encounters? Who actually benefits when social inequality becomes function of the city's spatial perception and place promotion?
We welcome papers from a range of disciplinary perspectives including anthropology, geography, sociology, and urban studies.
Key notation speakers:
- Lisa Ann Richey (Roskilde University)
- Kevin Trick Gotham (Tulane University)
A new report on township tourism in Namibia has been published by a team of researchers from Osnabrück University including Malte Steinbrink, Michael Buning, Martin Legant, Berenike Schauwinhold and Tore Süßenguth.
Guided sightseeing tours of the former township of Katutura accept been offered in Windhoek since the mid-1990s. Metropolis tourism in the Namibian capital had thus become, at quite an early point in time, role of the tendency towards utilising poor urban areas for purposes of tourism – a trend that set in at the beginning of the same decade. Frequently referred to equally "slum tourism" or "poverty tourism", the phenomenon of guided tours around places of poverty has not only been causing some media sensation and much public outrage since its emergence; in the past few years, information technology has developed into a vital field of scientific research, too. "Global Slumming" provides the grounds for a rethinking of the relationship between poverty and tourism in world society. This book is the outcome of a study project of the Plant of Geography at the School of Cultural Studies and Social Science of the University of Osnabrueck, Germany. Information technology represents the first empirical case study on township tourism in Namibia.
It focuses on iv aspects: 1. Emergence, development and (market) structure of township tourism in Windhoek 2. Expectations/imaginations, representations as well equally perceptions of the township and its inhabitants from the tourist's perspective 3. Perception and assessment of township tourism from the residents' perspective four. Local economic furnishings and the poverty-alleviating impact of township tourism The aim is to make an empirical contribution to the word effectually the tourism-poverty nexus and to an understanding of the global phenomenon of urban poverty tourism.
Gratis download of the study from here:
https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/alphabetize/index/docId/9591
CfP Association of American Geographers
Boston 5th to 9th April 2017
The circuitous geographies of inequality in gimmicky slum tourism
The visitation of areas of urban poverty is a growing phenomenon in global tourism (Burgold & Rolfes, 2013; Dürr & Jaffe, 2012; Freire-Medeiros, 2013; Frenzel, Koens, Steinbrink, & Rogerson, 2015). While it can exist considered a standard tourism practise in some destinations, it remains a deeply controversial form of tourism that is greeted with much suspicion and scepticism (Freire-Medeiros, 2009). In the emerging research field of slum tourism, the practices are no longer only seen every bit a specific niche of tourism, but as empirical phenomena that span a number of interdisciplinary concerns, ranging from international development, political activism, mobility studies to urban regeneration (Frenzel, 2016).
Slum tourism is sometimes cast equally a laboratory where the relationships and interactions betwixt the global Due north and South appear as micro-sociological encounters framed by the apparent concern over inequality. Beyond questioning the ways in which participants shape the encounters in slum tourism, structural implications and weather come up to the fore. Thus spatial inequality influences opportunities and hinders governance solutions to manage slum tourism operations (Koens and Thomas, 2016). Slum tourism is establish to be embedded into post-colonial patterns of discourse, in which 'Northward' and 'South' are specifically reproduced in practices of 'Othering' (Steinbrink, 2012) . Evidence has been institute for the use of slum tourism in urban development (Frenzel, 2014; Steinbrink, 2014) and more than widely in the commodification of global care and humanitarian regimes (Becklake, 2014; Holst, 2015). Research has also pointed to the upstanding implications of aestheticizing poverty in humanitarian aid performances and the troubles of on-the-basis political date in a seemingly post-ideological era (Holst 2016).
More than recently a geographical shift has been observed regarding the occurrence of slum tourism. No longer a phenomenon restricted to the Global South, slum tourism at present appears increasingly in the global North. Refugee camps such as Calais in the north of French republic accept received high numbers of visitors who appoint in charitable action and political interventions. Homeless tent cities take become the subject of a concerned tourist gaze in the several cities of the global north (Burgold, 2014). A broad range of stigmatised neighbourhoods in cities of the global North today testify upward on tourist maps as visitors venture to 'off the beaten runway' areas. The resurfacing of slum tourism to the global North furthers reinforces the demand to become a deeper, critical understanding of this global phenomena.
Mobility patterns of slum tourists also destabilise notions of what information technology means to exist a tourist, as migrants from the Global North increasingly enter areas of urban poverty in the South across temporal leisurely visits, but as low level entry points into cities they intent to brand their (temporal) home. Such new phenomena destabilise strict postal service-colonial framings of slum tourism, pointing to highly complex geographies of inequality.
In this session we aim to bring together research that casts the contempo developments in slum tourism enquiry. Nosotros aim specifically in advancing geographical research while retaining a broad interdisciplinary outlook.
Delight sent your abstruse or expressions of involvement of now more than than 300 words to Tore East.H.M Holst (tehh (at) ruc.dk) and Thomas Frisch (Thomas.Frisch (at) wiso.uni-hamburg.de) by October 15thursday 2016
References
Becklake, S. (2014). NGOs and the making of "development tourism destinations." Zeitschrift Für Tourismuswissenschaft, 6(ii), 223–243.
Burgold, J. (2014). Slumming in the Global North. Zeitschrift Für Tourismuswissenschaft, 6(two), 273–280.
Burgold, J., & Rolfes, G. (2013). Of voyeuristic safari tours and responsible tourism with educational value: Observing moral communication in slum and township tourism in Cape Town and Bombay. Die ERDE – Periodical of the Geographical Order of Berlin, 144(2), 161–174.
Dürr, E., & Jaffe, R. (2012). Theorizing Slum Tourism: Performing, Negotiating and Transforming Inequality. European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies Revista Europea de Estudios Latinoamericanos Y Del Caribe, 0(93), 113–123
Freire-Medeiros, B. (2009). The favela and its touristic transits. Geoforum, xl(4), 580–588.
Freire-Medeiros, B. (2013). Touring Poverty. New York N.Y.: Routledge.
Frenzel, F. (2014). Slum Tourism and Urban Regeneration: Touring Inner Johannesburg. Urban Forum, 25(iv), 431–447.
Frenzel, F. (2016). Slumming it: the tourist valorization of urban poverty. London: Zed Books.
Frenzel, F., Koens, K., Steinbrink, Yard., & Rogerson, C. M. (2015). Slum Tourism State of the Art. Tourism Review International, xviii(2), 237–252.
Holst, T. (2015). Touring the Demolished Slum? Slum Tourism in the Face of Delhi's Gentrification. Tourism Review International, 18(4), 283–294.
Steinbrink, M. (2012). Nosotros did the slum! Reflections on Urban Poverty Tourism from a Historical Perspective. Tourism Geographies, 14(2), forthcoming.
Steinbrink, Chiliad. (2014). Festifavelisation: mega-events, slums and strategic city-staging – the case of Rio de Janeiro. Dice ERDE – Journal of the Geographical Society of Berlin, 144(2), 129–145.
NEW BOOK Annunciation
Slumming Information technology: The tourist Valorization of Urban Poverty
Zed Books London, June 2016
Paperback: £16.99
ISBN: 9781783604432
In the provocative Slumming It, Fabian Frenzel explores the intriguing motivations and consequences of this form of tourism with a truly attainable, open-minded arroyo. He examines the strange attraction that slums take for wealthier visitors, and he investigates the changes this curious allure has led to on both a small and big scale: from gentrification and urban policy reform to the organization of international development and poverty alleviation efforts. Using case studies throughout the global south—including Rio de Janeiro, Bangkok, and cities in Due south Africa, Kenya, and India—Frenzel provides a comprehensive written report of slum tourism and a controversial take on the potentially positive impact it may have on these struggling communities in the future.
The book is based on a inquiry project funded by the European Union Marie Curie Fellowship scheme. More publications and information can exist plant on the project website.
Read an extract from the book on CityMetric
Reviews:
Bianca Freire-Medeiros, writer of Touring Poverty
"Based on years of embedded fieldwork, Frenzel'due south book cuts through the powerful mythology surrounding the and so-called slums, townships, and favelas equally tourist attractions to construct a revelatory narrative of the relationship between poverty and tourism, exploitation and political activism."
John Hutnyk, author of The Rumour of Calcutta
"The reality of the slum is much fought over in commentary. Frenzel cuts through the confusion to evaluate the valorisation of poverty in tourism. With examples ranging across India, Brazil, Europe and South Africa, Frenzel offers an analysis, both comparative and detailed, that is a theoretically-informed advance on electric current scholarship."
Manfred Rolfes, University of Potsdam
"Frenzel has written a very inspiring book, that is total of ideas and likewise deeply political. He opens up many new perspectives on slum tourism, and highlights its local and global dimensions."
Eveline Dürr, LMU Munich
"Rich empirical evidence, expertly interrogated by notions of identify valorisation, make this a fascinating piece of cut-border research on a fast emerging bailiwick. It makes a significant contribution to the available literature and is key reading for professionals and scholars akin."
Christian M. Rogerson, University of Johannesburg
"A bold and carefully crafted analysis of slums and slum tourism. Theoretically grounded in the concepts of tourist valorization and local value regimes, it offers a nuanced and land of the fine art understanding of the nexus of tourism, slums and poverty."
Imogen Tyler, author of Revolting Subjects
"This provocative and beautifully written study of slum tourism will transform your assumptions about the politics of slumming it. Cartoon on rich ethnographic data, Frenzel carefully considers the activist potential of tourism to enact a relational politics of solidarity and care."
The Earth Leisure Organisation has decided to dedicate their 2016 summer school to the memory of tourism researcher Douglas Ribeiro da Silva. Douglas' research focused on community perceptions of favela tourism in Paraisopolis, Sao Paolo and he presented his findings at the 2nd Slum tourism network conference in May 2014 in Potsdam, Germany.
Douglas died in an blow while attending the WLO Congress in 2014 in Mobile, Alabamba. In his memory the WLO has named its next congress in Durban, Southward Africa as 'Douglas Ribeiro da Silva Field School'.
The WLO would like to offer a tribute to i of the students who participated in the final WLO Congress. Unfortunately, Douglas is no longer with us, but he left part of his legacy on the mode he lived. In spite of all adversities in his life, he chose education and knowledge as the path to be followed in society to change society, to empower and emancipate people. His life was an inspirational example on how to overcome difficulties and discrimination with knowledge. We would like to go along his spirit live by naming the Durban field school after him.
Many researchers in the slum tourism network have expressed their gratidute to the WLO for this tribute to Douglas' retentivity.
Source: http://slumtourism.net/category/general/
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