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Transforming Tourism:
Making space for connection with the spirit of place
by Tom Bender

Review and Teaching Essay by Jeanne Curran and Susan Takata
Copyright by: Jeanne Curran and Susan Takata and Individual Authors: August 2, 2001.
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This essay is based on Tom Bender's article, Transforming Tourism, IN CONTEXT #44, Summer 1996 © November 1993 by Tom Bender, © 1996 by Context Institute. backup

One of the most distressing things I experienced this summer, especially in Zambia and Zimbabwe, was the recognition that young people, who had followed our rules and studied had nowhere to turn. Several of them spoke to me about degrees in tourism. They wanted to learn, to know more, and to find a job that needed the skills they were learning. Mostly, they didn't know where to turn. So they sold craft items, or worked at the hotels, and sought a thread they could follow to a brighter future.

Tom Bender's article on transforming tourism brought me back to those encounters. It raised questions of what it is we go to see, what it is we do there, and how that shapes our thinking on many issues.

More to come.

The In Context Site is linked on the Transcend Art and Peace Site.

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