Author:
Jóhannesdóttir Guðbjörg R.
Abstract
AbstractHow can we move towards a tourism that focuses on the inner landscape of the guest and the host; on how they are moved from the inside or touched by the tourism experience? What is being moved? Who is being moved? How can both guest and host be moved by the relations created in their encounter? To explore these questions I guide the reader through my own personal journey of being moved by the landscape of Melrakkaslétta, a journey that moved me to think about alternative approaches to tourism where the inner landscapes of guests and hosts are central. The aim of this journey is to highlight how landscapes are not only visual outer phenomena that we look at from a distance but rather whole entanglements of materials, beings, senses and processes that are constantly moving with and being moved by each other.
Publisher
Springer International Publishing
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