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Sex and shunting

Sex and shunting This article applies the concept of ‘serious leisure’ to thesubject of tourism development. It focuses upon the creation of counter cultures andalternative lifestyles, and the nature of the voluntarism that often is an extensionof this. The case studies deal with the tourist railway volunteer and the‘swinger’ lifestyle. The analysis also considers the creation of‘an embodied space’ by the participant, since we are not dealingwith passive consumption, but a proactive experience. In the case of railwaypreservation, the ‘embodied lifestyle’ has come to anaccommodation with the tourism industry, generating a multi-million pound industryin the process. The embodiment of a ‘swinging lifestyle’ takesthe traditional elements of the tourist experience and refashions them into a newformation or packages for their own forms of consumption. In both cases, theindustry benefits from the economic results but knows practically nothing of thewellspring of these phenomena. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Tourist Studies: An International Journal SAGE

Sex and shunting

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Abstract

This article applies the concept of ‘serious leisure’ to thesubject of tourism development. It focuses upon the creation of counter cultures andalternative lifestyles, and the nature of the voluntarism that often is an extensionof this. The case studies deal with the tourist railway volunteer and the‘swinger’ lifestyle. The analysis also considers the creation of‘an embodied space’ by the participant, since we are not dealingwith passive consumption, but a proactive experience. In the case of railwaypreservation, the ‘embodied lifestyle’ has come to anaccommodation with the tourism industry, generating a multi-million pound industryin the process. The embodiment of a ‘swinging lifestyle’ takesthe traditional elements of the tourist experience and refashions them into a newformation or packages for their own forms of consumption. In both cases, theindustry benefits from the economic results but knows practically nothing of thewellspring of these phenomena.

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Tourist Studies: An International Journal – SAGE

Published: Dec 1, 2005

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