Tourism and Hospitality for Humanity

Edited by Zaid Alrawadieh, Senior Lecturer in Hospitality and Tourism Operations and Levent Altinay, Professor of Strategy and Entrepreneurship, Oxford Brookes Business School, Oxford Brookes University, UK

• Contents1 Introduction to Tourism and Hospitality for Humanity 1Zaid Alrawadieh and Levent Altinay2 Virtual tourism as a potential alternative to travel therapyfor dementia intervention: Interdisciplinary, conceptual, andmethodological innovations 4Fangli Hu and Jun Wen3 Creating hospitality through food businesses: Narratives fromNew Zealand women with refugee backgrounds 14Shima Bazrafshan, Cheryl Cockburn-Wootten and Alison McIntosh4 Combating climate change through responsible tourism andhospitality practices 32Serap Özdemir-Güzel and Özge İzdeİ-Terkoİlu5 Cultivating a culture of hospitality: Nurturing volunteerengagement in non-hospitality sectors 58Geesje Duursma and Rodney Westerlaken6 The tourism and hospitality industries within the globaleconomy of romantic loneliness 78Hugues Séraphin, Omar Abou Hamdan, Tatiana Gladkikh,Manuela Pilato and Nadezhda Krasteva7 Female entrepreneurship and women’s empowerment intourism: Exploring the mediating role of creating shared value 94Fatemeh Bagheri and Mohanna Nikbin8 The modes of being, operating, making, knowing, living andacting in tourism research: A critical examination 115Atila Yüksel9 Promoting labour rights and human rights in hospitality:Striving for a workplace culture that disrupts exploitativepractices 154Claudia Macaveiu10 Unveiling the failure of tourism as industry of peace:Bridging the gap between academic discourse and globalreality and paving the way to post-tourism 174Fabio Carbone and Sarah Thangadurai11 Methodological considerations, challenges, and approaches inresearch involving children and young people 190Marko Košİak, Mladen Kneževiİ and Tony O’Rourke12 Empowering communities through ecotourism: A path tosustainable development in Chalacatepec, Jalisco, Mexico 209Yasiri Mayeli Flores Monter, Rocío del Carmen SerranoBarquín andDriselda Patricia Sánchez-Aguirre13 The interaction of digital nomads with the host communityand its effects on their quality of life: Chiang Mai as a casestudy 233Rami K. Isaac and Jentel Dorrestein14 Empowering communities through community-based culturaltourism in southern Africa: Practitioners’ reflections 257Yolisa Ndhlovu, Neil Shaw and Xavier Matteucci15 Conclusion 275Zaid Alrawadieh and Levent Altinay

‘Tourism and Hospitality for Humanity is a timely and thought-provoking book that challenges conventional thinking and places human dignity, social justice, and ethical responsibility at the heart of tourism and hospitality studies. Edited by esteemed scholars Zaid Alrawadieh and Levent Altinay, this book brings together a compelling collection of voices that address the critical intersections between tourism, human rights, inclusion, and sustainability.