Émilie Crossley

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Researcher at Hokkaido University

This article explores how young volunteer tourists encounter and negotiate poverty in rural Kenya. Using a longitudinal psychosocial methodology, I demonstrate how poverty can be conceptualized as a threatening ‘object’ to volunteer tourists, inducing unconscious anxiety by challenging Western materialistic lifestyles and identities. Volunteer tour...

Temporality is increasingly being recognised as an important dimension of tourist experience. Qualitative longitudinal research (QLR) is a methodology for investigating temporality and change that is rarely used in tourism studies. The approach moves away from reliance on data collected at one point in time and retrospective narratives. Instead, da...

Tourism research is starting to take interest in the psychology of environmental distress, particularly as it relates to climate change. For both the COVID-19 pandemic of 2020 and the climate change movement that dominated international media in 2019, psychological parallels exist in terms of our experience of loss. As the world grapples with the p...

Reflexivity has come to be accepted as standard methodological practice in qualitative tourism research, enabling researchers to reflect on how their subjectivity inevitably impacts on their work. However, reflexive accounts vary enormously from intimate, in-depth explorations to more modest reflexive disclosure statements, which are usually relega...

Volunteer tourism provides a means of proximate engagement with usually distant others, emphasising reciprocity, cultural learning and humanitarianism in poor communities. As such, the practice has come to be investigated for its potential to engender global citizenship, a broader scope of emotional identification, and new kinds of progressive tran...

The topic of animal ethics has advanced in tourism studies since its inception in 2000, based on a diverse range of studies on species involvement, types of uses and contexts, level of engagement, states of animals, and theoretical perspectives. While there is still considerable scope to amplify research on animal-based tourism, a gap exists in tou...

This chapter explores the commodification of domestic cats as living mascots at two Japanese heritage tourist attractions: Kishi Station and Bitchū Matsuyama Castle. In both cases, the adoption of a formerly stray cat created a significant boost in tourist numbers at a time of financial hardship, which is interpreted as an example of ‘nekonomics’ (...

Pets are increasingly being recognised as family members, leaving their owners with difficult decisions about how to care for them during periods of travel. Tourists can either travel with their pets, leave them in the care of family or friends, or use a paid service provided by an animal boarding facility or ‘pet hotel’. We empirically explore the...

Professionalism in the tourism industry encompasses many of the same values and traits required in other sectors, with some notable differences. Leadership, proactivity, understanding disparate viewpoints, discerning and gathering relevant information, timeliness and reflexivity all need to be addressed in our curriculum. Two additional areas, uniq...

Japan is rapidly developing a global reputation as a tourism hot-spot for animal lovers. Opportunities for tourists to interact with animals can be found across a range of settings throughout the country, from the famous snow monkeys of Nagano, to free-ranging deer in Nara, to the assortment of cat, and other animal cafés in Tokyo. Many such attrac...

Ecological grief is a concept that is quickly gaining currency in the humanities and social sciences. It can be conceptualised as a form of disenfranchised grief that lacks societal recognition due to its radical extension of what we accept as a mournable body. Ecological grief can be felt in relation to the loss of species, ecosystem collapse, or...

Tourism scholarship lacks a critical understanding of time and temporality, particularly as these concepts relate to the subjective experience of tourists. Bold claims regarding change and transformation through tourism are still made on the basis of research that uses singular temporal data collection points and the retrospective framing of experi...

Postgraduate professional practice programmes provide a radical alternative to traditional tourism pedagogy in which the learner, who is an experienced professional, is framed as the expert. Typically offered at master’s and doctoral level, these programmes combine work-based knowledge with disciplinary knowledge to create new ways of knowing that...

Volunteer tourism provides a means of proximate engagement with usually distant others, emphasising reciprocity, cultural learning and humanitarianism in poor communities. As such, the practice has come to be investigated for its potential to engender global citizenship, a broader scope of emotional identification, and new kinds of progressive tran...

- Building our stories: Co-creating tourism futures in research, education and practice - Storytelling is a powerful way of exploring the past, crafting values in the present and imagining the future. Stories, told from different perspectives and drawing from diverse experiences, can build shared understandings, empathy and care. Everyday stories...

Criticality is a concept that has gained increasing traction among tourism scholars seeking to articulate socially progressive, politically engaged and methodologically innovative perspectives. However, tourism education has remained largely insulated from these radical and transformative currents within the academy. Predominantly, university progr...

1. Introduction: Regimes of value in tourism Emilie Crossley and David Picard 2. Tourism as theatre: performing and consuming indigeneity in an Australian wildlife sanctuary David Picard, Celmara Pocock and David Trigger 3. Shifting values of 'primitiveness' among the Zafimaniry of Madagascar: an anthropological approach to tourist mediators' disco...

Tourism practices that bring wealthy Western travellers into contact with poor communities in developing countries through an ethos of reciprocity, helping and learning have been posited as a potential avenue for the formation of more responsible, charitable and ethical subjects or 'global citizens'. Volunteer tourism, international service learnin...

Travel has long been associated with ideas of self-transformation. Through travelling, there is a sense in which we can see our lives with renewed clarity, recognise desires and callings that previously appeared hidden from us, and ultimately forge new identities. Journeys have a ‘capacity for mirroring the inner and outer dimensions that makes pos...