Nicknaming tourism as development: commercialization of culture and nature in CHT, Bangladesh

IF 2.2 4区管理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change Pub Date : 2021-08-19 DOI:10.1080/14766825.2021.1966022

S. Sajib

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Abstract

ABSTRACT Tourism in Chittagong Hill Tracts (CHT) has nowadays been sensitized a prospective channel for the local development that generates a new socio-economic reality. It also provokes some critical issues regarding commercial use and its profit-making venture. This paper aims to understand how culture and nature are commercialized in the process of crafting a ‘uniqueness’ of CHT that materialize the public and private policies of tourism development, and how tourism is branded by the development actors as a potential means of local development. The study found that the tourism expansion has increasingly been nicknamed as development and impelled indigenous participation to the economic benefits, in which process culture and nature became saleable products. A considerable number of locals and tourists as informants were sampled and interviewed between November 2019 and early February 2020. This study adopted by qualitative methods, tried to explore the local perceptions of tourism development and its outcomes. The study contributed to the development of balanced tourism and its sustainable outcomes, and a deeper understanding of culture-specific ways.

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将旅游称为发展:孟加拉国CHT文化与自然的商业化

吉大港山区(CHT)的旅游业如今已成为当地发展的潜在渠道，产生了新的社会经济现实。它也引发了一些关于商业用途及其盈利风险的关键问题。本文旨在了解文化和自然是如何在塑造CHT的“独特性”的过程中被商业化的，这种“独特性”体现了公共和私人的旅游发展政策，以及旅游是如何被发展参与者打上当地发展的潜在手段的。研究发现，旅游业的扩张越来越多地被称为发展，并促使土著居民参与经济利益，在这个过程中，文化和自然成为可销售的产品。在2019年11月至2020年2月初期间，对相当多的当地人和游客作为举报人进行了抽样和访谈。本研究采用定性方法，试图探讨当地对旅游发展的认知及其结果。该研究有助于平衡旅游业的发展及其可持续成果，并加深了对文化具体方式的理解。

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Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

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期刊介绍： Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change ( JTCC ) is a peer-reviewed, transdisciplinary and transnational journal. It focuses on critically examining the relationships, tensions, representations, conflicts and possibilities that exist between tourism/travel and culture/cultures in an increasingly complex global context. JTCC provides a forum for debate against the backdrop of local, regional, national and transnational understandings of identity and difference. Economic restructuring, recognitions of the cultural dimension of biodiversity and sustainable development, contests regarding the positive and negative impact of patterns of tourist behaviour on cultural diversity, and transcultural strivings - all provide an important focus for JTCC . Global capitalism, in its myriad forms engages with multiple ''ways of being'', generating new relationships, re-evaluating existing, and challenging ways of knowing and being. Tourists and the tourism industry continue to find inventive ways to commodify, transform, present/re-present and consume material culture. JTCC seeks to widen and deepen understandings of such changing relationships and stimulate critical debate by: -Adopting a multidisciplinary approach -Encouraging deep and critical approaches to policy and practice -Embracing an inclusive definition of culture -Focusing on the concept, processes and meanings of change -Encouraging trans-national/transcultural perspectives