Titlepage -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- 1 Starting Slow: Thinking Through Slow Mobilities and Experiences 1 -- Part 1: Positioning Slow Tourism -- 2 Speeding Up and Slowing Down: Pilgrimage and Slow Travel Through Time -- 3 On the Periphery of Pleasure: Hedonics, Eudaimonics and Slow Travel -- 4 Slow'n Down the Town to Let Nature Grow: Ecotourism, Social Justice and Sustainability -- Part 2: Slow Food and Sustainable Tourism -- 5 The Contradictions and Paradoxes of Slow Food: Environmental Change, Sustainability and the Conservation of Taste -- 6 Eat Your Way through Culture: Gastronomic Tourism as Performance and Bodily Experience -- 7 'Make Haste Slowly': Environmental Sustainability and Willing Workers on Organic Farms -- Part 3: Slow Mobilities -- 8 Gendered Cultures of Slow Travel: Women's Cycle Touring as an Alternative Hedonism -- 9 Wandering Australia: Independent Travellers and Slow Journeys Through Time and Space -- 10 Alternative Mobility Cultures and the Resurgence of Hitch-hiking -- 11 'If You're Making Waves Then You Have to Slow Down': Slow Tourism and Canals -- Part 4: Slow Tourism Places -- 12 Travellin' Around On Yukon Time in Canada's North -- 13 'Fast Japan, Slow Japan': Shifting to Slow Tourism as a Rural Regeneration Tool in Japan -- 14 Tribe Tourism: A Case Study of the Tribewanted Project on Vorovoro, Fiji -- 15 Slow Tourism Initiatives: An Exploratory Study of Dutch Lifestyles Entrepreneurs in France -- 16 Slow Travel and Indian Culture: Philosophical and Practical Aspects -- 17 Reflecting Upon Slow Travel and Tourism Experiences.