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Heather Mair

University of Waterloo
Participates in 2 items

Sessions in which Heather Mair participates

Monday 21 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes
3:30 PM
3:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 30 minutes

Priviledging indigenous voices: A participatory oriented approachbyXiaotao YangandHeather MairIn 2012, Peters andHiggins-Desbiolles, wrote “What is wholly absent [from the tourism literature] …is any recognition of Indigenous peoples as tourists”(p.78).Chambers and Buzinde (2015) acknowledged that “tourism knowledge is still predominantly colonial” (p.1) because Eurocentric epistemologies are still privileged and people from the South continue to be research...

Sessions in which Heather Mair attends

Saturday 19 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour
2:00 PM
2:00 PM - 3:30 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

(In French with simultaneous translation)The increase in tourist numbers in certain places that have become "destinations" has recently brought to the forefront the old paradigm of destructive tourism. Here and there, people denounce not only the invasion of living environments and the transformation of urban functions according to tourist expectations, but also the destruction of heritage through the alteration of its authenticity. Such an assertion, based on the original purity of a true...

Sunday 20 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
2:30 PM
2:30 PM - 4:00 PM | 1 hour 30 minutes

Monday 21 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 10:30 AM | 1 hour

The Night Walk: from a dangerous migration to a tourist performance.ByJafet Quintero VenegasandAlvaro LopezThe Night Walk is a recreational activity organized by the Hñahñú community of the town of El Alberto, municipality of Ixmiquilpan, state of Hidalgo, Mexico, and is part of the menu of activities that tourists who visit the area can hire. This is a performance that involves several actors that represent the migratory phenomenon of undocumented Mexicans tryi...

10:30 AM
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM | 2 hours

Justice entails concepts of fairness, reasonableness, honesty, and integrity, going beyond the more basic premises of “acceptability” or “lawfulness.” We invite proposals for a special track on animal justice, where we will explore meanings of and means to achieve justice for non-human animal actors within tourism.

1:00 PM
1:00 PM - 2:00 PM | 1 hour

Ethical and Equitable Tourism DataBy Evita RobinsonThis keynote covers the intersection of data and tourism. In 2020 NOMADNESS Travel Tribe and Tourism RESET had over 5200 respondents to their survey of BIPOC (Black, Indigenous, People of Color) Travelers. The 89-page qualitative and quantitative report methodology is also a case study on how data is more robust when academia and industry work together. The 26,000+ member NOMADNESS community was the bridge to harnessing t...

Tuesday 22 June, 2021

Time Zone: (GMT-05:00) Eastern Time (US & Canada)
9:30 AM
9:30 AM - 10:00 AM | 30 minutes