The Body in Tourism

Conceptual research in tourism

“…Indeed, embodiment disrupted the traditional Cartesian binary opposition between mind and body where the mind was endowed with supremacy over the body. Veijola and Jokinen's (1994) paper 'The Body in Tourism'…”

Recognizing Emotion and its Postcolonial Potentialities: Discomfort and Shame in a Tourism Encounter in Turkey

“…It is therefore necessary to examine closely the emotional and affective or bodily dimensions of the encounter if we are to begin to understand the 'subjective seductions' of tourism in Crouch's (2005: 26) words. Some detailed consideration of the body in tourism has already occurred in Tourism Studies (for example, Veijola and Jokinen 1994;Crouch 2002;Andrews 2006;Veijola and Valtonen 2007). However, discussions of the embodied dimensions of tourism, including discussions of gender in tourism, have tended largely to refer to the body in rather general and abstract terms.…”

Globalna i lokalna plaža na primjeru dubrovačkih gradskih plaža i plažnih kultura

“…U skladu s pomakom istraživanja s pionirskog Urryjeva "turističkog pogleda" (Urry 2002), vizualnosti i razgledavanja na "otjelovljenje" (embodiment) kao središnji pojam turističkog doživljaja (Veijola i Jokinen 1994;Johnston 2001), plaža se pokazala idealnim mjestom za analize toga "otjelovljenog" karaktera turizma, kao mjesto koje se doživljava svim tjelesnim osjetilima i aktivnim tjelesnim sudjelovanjem. ZABRANE NA PLAŽI, JAVNI PRISTUP I OGRANIČAVANJE PRISTUPA Regulacija, ograničavanje i klasificiranje vidljivo je u normama ponašanja na plaži i znakovima zabrane.…”