Tourism and Memories of Home represents a valuable and welcome addition to the growing body of research on diaspora tourism. The thirteen chapters challenge and deepen our understanding of how diasporas from around the world invert and reinterpret the concept of `home and away' (...) It is a valuable and powerful teaching resource for students studying on ... Read morea wide range of social science disciplines, as well as for professionals interested in understanding and developing ethical diasporic tourism products.
Claudia Sima, University of Lincoln, UK
Journal of Hospitality and Tourism Management (2017)
This book serves as a valuable resource for scholars interested in the intersection of tourism and migration. Although neglected, this field proves to be very important for a large spectrum of researchers and academics. However, the beauty of this book is actually in its universality, for almost every human knows what nostalgia, memory and home means. This makes the book's audience unlimited, as the book can be read, understood and enjoyed without being an expert in tourism, heritage or anthropology. While taking the joint journey back to one's past we learn that roots tourism is a means through which we explore personal identities grounded in collective memories. This rich set of stories full of emotionally charged experiences will ultimately cause the reader to reflect on his own life.
Barbara Lovrinic, Institute for Development and International Relations, Zagreb, Croatia)
Croatian International Relations Review (CIRR), XXIII (79) - 2017
Rich in evocative case studies from around the globe, Marschall's collection charts a course through diverse fields of study (tourism, migration, mobility, transnationalism, globalisation), and breaks new ground in updating and extending conceptualisations of the ever disparate but always heartfelt process of journeying home. In a world increasingly defined by mobility, the counterpoints of home and memory are important conceptual innovations featured in this work.
Loretta Baldassar, The University of Western Australia, Australia
Curiosity or yearning for 'home' is the theme of this rich collection of essays on the links between tourism, memory, and cultural identity. Germans visiting pre-1945 birthplaces, Israelis touring family sites from pre-Holocaust Europe, Palestinians viewing pre-1948 villages, African-Americans exploring origins in Ghana, all exemplify commonalities in roots tourism. All, however, plus other cases in this deeply moving book, express different senses of homeland and loss.
Bertram M. Gordon, Mills College, USA
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