The creation of the Muraka, a Maldivian underwater hotel: A story of sea life, more-than-human architecture, and alloútopic tourism

IF 3.3 4区管理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Tourist Studies Pub Date : 2024-05-02 DOI:10.1177/14687976241251437

P. Vannini, April S. Vannini

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Abstract

Answering Huijbens and Jóhannesson’s call to investigate tourist destination development through a relational ontology marked by a vital materialism, this paper focuses on the creation of the Muraka. The Muraka is the underwater villa of the Conrad Maldives Rangali Island—an ultra-luxury resort located in Alifu Dhaalu Atoll. No social scientific research has ever been conducted at underwater hotels. Drawing upon fieldwork at the Muraka—part of a broader project on three underwater hotels (conducted in Singapore, Tanzania, and the Maldives), we aim to contribute original knowledge to more-than-human geographies and tourist studies by bringing attention to the architectural relations that entangle underwater hotels with their environments. In doing so we become attuned to more-than-human lives and create narratives that can help us imagine new relations with the planet both within and beyond the realm of tourist encounters. By focusing in particular on the creation of the Muraka through the lens of the original concept of alloutopia, we contribute to non-representational and more-than-human perspectives on tourism

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马尔代夫水下酒店 Muraka 的诞生：一个关于海洋生物、超人类建筑和异域旅游的故事

Huijbens 和 Jóhannesson 呼吁通过以生命唯物主义为标志的关系本体论来研究旅游目的地的发展，本文响应这一号召，将重点放在 Muraka 的创建上。Muraka 是马尔代夫兰加利岛康莱德酒店的水下别墅，该酒店是位于阿里夫达鲁环礁的超豪华度假村。从未在水下酒店进行过社会科学研究。我们在 Muraka 酒店进行了实地考察--这是我们关于三家水下酒店（在新加坡、坦桑尼亚和马尔代夫进行）的更广泛项目的一部分，我们旨在通过关注水下酒店与其环境之间的建筑关系，为超人类地理学和旅游研究贡献原创知识。这样，我们就能关注超人类的生活，并创造出有助于我们想象与地球之间新关系的叙事，无论这种关系是在旅游领域之内还是之外。通过从 "全托邦"（alloutopia）这一原始概念的视角来关注 Muraka 的创建，我们为旅游业的非代表性和超人类视角做出了贡献。

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Tourist Studies HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

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期刊介绍： Tourist Studies is a multi-disciplinary journal providing a platform for the development of critical perspectives on the nature of tourism as a social phenomenon through a qualitative lens. Theoretical and multi-disciplinary. Tourist Studies provides a critical social science approach to the study of the tourist and the structures which influence tourist behaviour and the production and reproduction of tourism. The journal examines the relationship between tourism and related fields of social inquiry. Tourism and tourist styles consumption are not only emblematic of many features of contemporary social change, such as mobility, restlessness, the search for authenticity and escape, but they are increasingly central to economic restructuring, globalization, the sociology of consumption and the aestheticization of everyday life. Tourist Studies analyzes these features of tourism from a multi-disciplinary perspective and seeks to evaluate, compare and integrate approaches to tourism from sociology, socio-psychology, leisure studies, cultural studies, geography and anthropology. Global Perspective. Tourist Studies takes a global perspective of tourism, widening and challenging the established views of tourism presented in current periodical literature. Tourist Studies includes: Theoretical analysis with a firm grounding in contemporary problems and issues in tourism studies, qualitative analyses of tourism and the tourist experience, reviews linking theory and policy, interviews with scholars at the forefront of their fields, review essays on particular fields or issues in the study of tourism, review of key texts, publications and visual media relating to tourism studies, and notes on conferences and other events of topical interest to the field of tourism studies.