Negotiating Hospitality: Ethics of Tourism Development in the Nicaraguan Highlands / Edition 1

by Emily Höckert

Overview

How do hosts and guests welcome each other in responsible encounters? This book addresses the question in a longitudinal ethnographic study on tourism development in the coffee- cultivating communities in Nicaragua. The research follows the trail of development practitioners and researchers who travel with a desire to help, teach and study the local hosts. On a broader level, it is a journey exploring how the conditions of hospitality become negotiated between these actors. The theoretical approach bases itself on the ethical subjectivity as responsibility and receptivity towards ‘the other’. The ideas put forward in the book suggest that hospitality, responsibility and participation all require a readiness to interrupt one’s own ways of doing, knowing and being.

This book provides a conceptual tool to facilitate reflection on alternative ways of doing togetherness and will be of interest to students and researchers of hospitality, tourism, development studies, cultural studies and anthropology.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138551497
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/08/2018
Series:	Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
Pages:	220
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

Emily Höckert is Postdoctoral Fellow in Tourism Studies at the Linnaeus University in Kalmar, Sweden.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction 2. The ethics of hospitality 3. Unconditional welcome of tourism to Nicaragua 4. Negotiating the conditions for rural hospitality 5. Envisioning hospitable encounters 6. Conclusion