This article provides a view on the state-of-the-art literature on slum tourism. It points to the
rapid growth of slum tourism research in recent years and highlights the main avenues that …

In mainstream urban tourism scholarship debates there is only limited attention given to the
urban global South. The 'other half'of urban tourism is the axis in this review and analysis …

In the light of growing inequality globally, it is important to consider how to make tourism,
one of the world's largest industries, more inclusive. This concern is set in the context of, first …

An Archaeology of the Contemporary Era approaches the contemporary age, between the
late nineteenth and twenty-first centuries, as an archaeological period defined by specific …

Since the 1990s, city branding has become a key factor in urban development policies.
Cities all over the world take specific actions to manipulate the imagery and the perceptions …

This research note focuses on tourism to heritage sites with a controversial history and sites
associated with death, disaster, and the macabre. Several new concepts and research …

Tourism Geography develops a critical understanding of how different geographies of
tourism are created and maintained. Drawing on both historical and contemporary …

We live in a society that is bombarded by news of accidents, disasters and terrorist attacks.
We are obsessed by the presence of death. It is commodified in newspapers, the media …

Touring Poverty addresses a highly controversial practice: the transformation of
impoverished neighbourhoods into valued attractions for international tourists. In the …

The slum is a reality that few of us reading this book will have experienced, though I would
suggest we will, at some point, have felt its presence, maybe as a sense of concern, perhaps …