Irena Ateljevic

• PhD
• Fellow at Institute for Tourism, Zagreb Croatia

With or without the global COVID-19 pandemic to promote and envision a meaningful and positive transformation of the planet in general, and tourism specifically, a wake-up call is long overdue. The 300-years old industrial and modern paradigm of ruthless and selfish exploitation of natural resources has separated us from nature and ultimately ourse...

This chapter ties together the main proposition of the book grounded in the tourism planning framework to dwell on the future of tourism and tourism research. It emphasises tourism’s power to transform society towards the more healthy state of being and discusses how travellers shape tourism development and what does it mean for the future of touri...

Starting from the premise that the formulation of a destination vision is the most critical aspect of strategic planning, this chapter gives insight into a process of creating a value-driven vision that was conducted for the purpose of the ‘Croatian tourism strategy 2020’. The value-driven approach that calls upon awakening more human values of rec...

In the current context of social arrhythmia promoted by the culture of excess, consumerism and individualism the purpose of this article is to discuss the need to promote changes in tourism and society towards a more human development, based on the pillars of the solidarity economy. The article extends discussions on the solidarity economy into the...

This paper brings together 'triple T' of tourism, transmodernity and transforma-tive learning by exposing critical questions of (tourism) futures and the sense of direction where are we going as a single humanity. In the current context of overwhelming crisis at all levels – environmentally, socially, economically, politically and culturally, there...

When one dives into the questions of imag(in)ing place and reputation, destination marketing, management and branding, two key clear trajectories of the relevant literature appear to prevail. One is underpinned by critical social theory in order to deconstruct political processes of power behind the formation of place identities, while the other si...

Reflecting a broader postmodern shift to unmask the cultural politics of research and knowledge-making in academia, tourism studies as a field is demonstrating a notable ‘critical turn’—a shift in thought that serves to provide and legitimize a space for more interpretative and critical modes of tourism inquiry. In response to this critical turn, t...

Shift in postindustrial societies, influenced by trends such as globalization and the growth of service economies, fuels the continuous growth of business travel—traditionally an arena of male dominance and reflective of women's historically domesticated role. Contemporary societal changes, however, have resulted in the increased participation of w...

This paper provides a chronological evolution of the interdisciplinary Tourism Studies (TS) field from its formation origins in the late 1960s until recently. By using the framework of the 'Knowledge force-field' developed by Tribe (2006) this socio-historical mapping of the field aims to provide a kind of 'navigating lens ' to understand the origi...

In this paper I engage with a broad range of literature that provides signals and evidence of an emerging and significant paradigm shift in human evolution. To describe this shift, different authors use a variety of terms, such as the transmodernity paradigm (Ghisi); the transmodern philosophy of political liberation (Dussel); the Hegelian dialecti...

The ideology of hippy subculture – a youth movement that arose in the United States during the mid-1960s, which subsequently spread to Europe – was partly locally produced and partly imported from the East. One invited another. The political conditions of the cold war, McCarthyism, the growing threat and increasingly destructive nature of the atom...

This paper makes a philosophical and ontological contribution to tourism knowledge. It discusses emergent perspectives and paradigms, identifies major omissions in tourism knowledge and challenges its dominant assumptions, reviewing the imperatives for a regime change in the field. The paper argues that the new hopeful tourism perspective which com...

While other disciplines have engaged with critiquing work-life balance, tourism studies has been slower in acknowledging and critically contesting the notion as it applies to our own academic lives. This paper aims to address this gap through a collective memory-work of how four female tourism academics try to achieve work-life harmony and why it s...

While other disciplines have engaged with critiquing work-life balance, tourism studies has been slower in acknowledging and critically contesting the notion as it applies to our own academic lives. This paper aims to address this gap through a collective memory-work of how four female tourism academics try to achieve work-life harmony and why it s...

In this paper I engage with a broad range of literature that provides evidence of an emerging and significant paradigm shift in human evolution as we face an increasingly distressed and unsustainable world that screams for some hope and transformation. To describe this shift, different authors use a variety of terms, such as transmodernity paradigm...

The process of government restructuring in New Zealand has seen the emergence of the free market and competition as prevailing ideologies in the policy environment. At the local government level, tourism development has become a key strategy through which a new entrepreneurial stance has been articulated. As a research topic, entrepreneurship has b...

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The search for new tourism experiences as well as changes in the tourism industry itself has led to new forms of individualised travel and consequentially new forms of backpacker tourism. This volume provides an up to date examination of the behaviour, attitudes and motivations of backpacker tourists as well as the growth of the infrastructure behi...

While contemporary popular discourses dismiss gender and feminism as pass©, patriarchy and sexism continue to limit human possibilities around the globe. The tourism industry can be a force for empowerment but it can also shore up exploitative gendered practices. At the same time, tourism enquiry itself continues to be dominated by western, masculi...

This book seeks to advance feminist and gender tourism studies with its focus on embodiment. Broad themes include: the construction of narratives; how discourses of desire, sensuality and sexuality pervade the tourism experience; the use of the body to represent femininity, masculinity and sensuality; and how travel and tourism allow for empowermen...

This book seeks to advance feminist and gender tourism studies with its focus on embodiment. Broad themes include: the construction of narratives; how discourses of desire, sensuality and sexuality pervade the tourism experience; the use of the body to represent femininity, masculinity and sensuality; and how travel and tourism allow for empowermen...

New approaches to tourism study demonstrate a notable 'critical turn' - a shift in thought that emphasises interpretative and critical modes of tourism inquiry. The chapters in this volume reflect this emerging critical school of tourism studies and represent a coordinated effort of tourism scholars whose work engages innovative research methodolog...

This book addresses European tourism within the framework of an enlarged European Union of 25 members. It looks at the substantial reorientation of the organizational framework of European tourism and its profound implications for future structural and geographical patterns of development. Providing a series of thematic evaluations of relationships...

This paper explores dialectics of entrepreneurship and cultural consumption in the backpacker tourist enclave of 'Foreigner's Lane' in Dali, Yunnan Province, PR China, focusing on the role of ethnic identities and their representation. The discussion uses the performance metaphor to conceptualise tourism as a carefully staged act and illustrates th...

Reflecting a broader postmodern shift to unmask the cultural politics of research and knowledge-making in academia, tourism studies as a field is demonstrating a notable 'critical turn' - a shift in thought that serves to provide and legitimize a space for more interpretative and critical modes of tourism inquiry. In response to this critical turn,...

The contemporary global economy has become characterized by an intensity and sophistication of the processes of commodification of consumption where production is increasingly aestheticized, attaching meanings and symbolic associations to material objects. The traditional interpretations of cultural commodification suggest disempowerment of traditi...

In the current era of globalisation ȧand regional economic integration, localised concerns with cultural identity, historical memory and collective belonging are assuming a new significance. Rather than signalling the end of localised identities, however, the current period has infused processes of identity formation with elements of political econ...

The identities of destinations around the world are endlessly reinvented as marketing creates powerful social and cultural representations of place. This paper contrasts a series of promotional New Zealand texts produced by the central government agency at the beginning and the end of the 20th century. It employs discourse analysis to reveal the im...

In recent years, there has been a paradigmatic shift articulated by the 'cultural' turn of tourism geography. Within the cultural analysis of economic relations the embrace of complexity and diversity has become essential to broadening our understanding of tourism development processes. This paper seeks to engage with local cultural perspectives, w...

This paper discusses how certain travel motivations and holiday expectations are created by constantly evolving values within the cultural frame of everyday life in the generating countries. This argument imposes critical implications for planners and marketers of tourist destinations who constantly need to (re)create and (re)invent the image of ‘t...

This volume focuses on consumer decision making for evaluating choice alternatives in tourism, leisure, and hospitality operations. It deals with research and methodological problems such as coping with nonlinear utility functions, capturing highly emotional product attributes, incorporating noncompensatory decision rules, and accounting for unobse...

In this paper we review the complex links that exist between the tourism industry and processes of economic development. A brief overview of the industry's economic role at the international and national scale leads us into a discussion of local and regional involvement in the tourism industry. We emphasize the need to develop a more rigorous under...

Lifestyle, non-economic motives have been recognised as significant stimuli for tourism entrepreneurship and growth of the small-business sector. Tourism research, to date, has focused on the conceptualisation of entrepreneurship informed largely by economic analysis. In this context, the long-term survival of lifestyle entrepreneurs in tourism has...

The current blurring of the boundaries between economic and cultural geog raphies raises many issues within the geographical study of tourism. This paper addresses the crucial question of the value of dichotomous approaches, from either production or consumption perspectives. The neo-Gramscian concept of hegemony is then presented as a key theoreti...

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