2381/41110
Fabian Frenzel
Fabian
Frenzel
Tourist agency as valorisation: Making Dharavi into a tourist attraction
University of Leicester
2018
Social Sciences
Hospitality, Leisure, Sport & Tourism
Sociology
Social Sciences - Other Topics
Slum Tourism
Authentication
Mumbai
Cool
Hot
2018-02-07 14:31:01
Journal contribution
https://figshare.le.ac.uk/articles/journal_contribution/Tourist_agency_as_valorisation_Making_Dharavi_into_a_tourist_attraction/10236773
Tourist agency is an area of renewed interest in tourism studies. Reflecting on existing
scholarship the paper identifies, develops and critically examines three main approaches
to tourism agency, namely the Service-dominant logic, the performative turn, and tourist
valorisation. Tourist valorisation is proposed as a useful approach to theorise the role of
tourists in the making of destinations and more broadly to conceptualise the intentions,
modalities and outcomes of tourist agency. The paper contributes to the structuring of current
scholarship on tourist agency. Empirically it addresses a knowledge gap concerning
the role of tourists in the development of Dharavi, Mumbai into a tourist destination.