The subject of this diploma thesis is theoretical analysis of anthropology of tourism on Bali. The thesis bases on the fact that the island Bali is object of mass tourism interest and its consequences are more and more perceptible. This increasing interest results from unique island's location and splendid natural heritage, specific Bali culture, and finally from nature of local residents. Main goal of the thesis is description, explanation, understanding and interpretation of Bali phenomenon as unique cultural construction and to find the answer on my question: which factors form this phenomenon. The thesis is shared on analythical part, which analyses anthropology of tourism on Bali and analysis of its culture Empirical research focuses on the Bali phenomenon and was realized as empirical survey. Key words Antropology of tourism, Bali, Bali phenomenon

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este é um estudo sobre as interfaces entre turismo e religião, particularmente sobre busca espiritual e peregrinações à Índia. Os principais temas por mim abordados são religiosidade e turismo (espiritualidade e viagem/peregrinação, na visão dos informantes). Inicialmente estudei um tipo de viajante que parecia conectado a uma rejeição a classificação de turista bem como de religioso. Após realizar trabalho de campo com diversos informantes na Índia, analisei duas viagens de peregrinação à Índia realizadas por um grupo de estudantes de Vedanta do Rio de Janeiro. A questão principal foi entender os significados que assumem estas peregrinações e as motivações dos peregrinos. No desenvolvimento da pesquisa, outra questão se revelou fundamental compreender a construção do Vedanta enquanto projeto, bem como o sentido da busca espiritual para o grupo estudado. Esta tese se baseia nas minhas experiências de viagens à Índia, nos depoimentos dos tipos de turista que por lá encontrei, no grupo de estudantes de Vedanta e suas peregrinações, e nas aulas de Vedanta que freqüentei. Um dos resultados mais significativos foi perceber que os viajantes estudados realizavam suas viagens motivados não só pela dimensão religiosa, como também pelas expectativas e ideias culturais relacionadas tanto à noção de viagem (o que proporciona a experiência da mesma) como da Índia (lugar percebido como o mais religioso do mundo). / This study is about the interfaces between tourism and religion, particularly about spiritual search and pilgrimages to India. The main themes approached here are religiosity and tourism (spirituality and travel/pilgrimage, according to the informants). Initially, I studied a type of tourist which seemed connected by a rejection to being classified as tourists or religious. After doing fieldwork with some travellers in India, I analyzed two pilgrimages to India made by a group of Vedanta students from Rio de Janeiro. The main question was to understand the meanings of these pilgrimages and the pilgrims motivations. In the research development process, another question became essential to understand the Vedanta construction as a project, as well as the meanings of the spiritual search for the studied group. This thesis is based upon my travel experiences in India; the interviews with the types of tourist that I met there; the group of Vedanta students and their pilgrimages; and the Vedanta classes I took. One of the most meaningful results was to realize that the pilgrims I studied undertook their trips motivated not only by a religious dimension, but also by the expectations and cultural ideas related to the notions of journey (what provides its experience) and of India (a place seen as the most religious in the world).

Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Este é um estudo sobre as interfaces entre turismo e religião, particularmente sobre busca espiritual e peregrinações à Índia. Os principais temas por mim abordados são religiosidade e turismo (espiritualidade e viagem/peregrinação, na visão dos informantes). Inicialmente estudei um tipo de viajante que parecia conectado a uma rejeição a classificação de turista bem como de religioso. Após realizar trabalho de campo com diversos informantes na Índia, analisei duas viagens de peregrinação à Índia realizadas por um grupo de estudantes de Vedanta do Rio de Janeiro. A questão principal foi entender os significados que assumem estas peregrinações e as motivações dos peregrinos. No desenvolvimento da pesquisa, outra questão se revelou fundamental compreender a construção do Vedanta enquanto projeto, bem como o sentido da busca espiritual para o grupo estudado. Esta tese se baseia nas minhas experiências de viagens à Índia, nos depoimentos dos tipos de turista que por lá encontrei, no grupo de estudantes de Vedanta e suas peregrinações, e nas aulas de Vedanta que freqüentei. Um dos resultados mais significativos foi perceber que os viajantes estudados realizavam suas viagens motivados não só pela dimensão religiosa, como também pelas expectativas e ideias culturais relacionadas tanto à noção de viagem (o que proporciona a experiência da mesma) como da Índia (lugar percebido como o mais religioso do mundo). / This study is about the interfaces between tourism and religion, particularly about spiritual search and pilgrimages to India. The main themes approached here are religiosity and tourism (spirituality and travel/pilgrimage, according to the informants). Initially, I studied a type of tourist which seemed connected by a rejection to being classified as tourists or religious. After doing fieldwork with some travellers in India, I analyzed two pilgrimages to India made by a group of Vedanta students from Rio de Janeiro. The main question was to understand the meanings of these pilgrimages and the pilgrims motivations. In the research development process, another question became essential to understand the Vedanta construction as a project, as well as the meanings of the spiritual search for the studied group. This thesis is based upon my travel experiences in India; the interviews with the types of tourist that I met there; the group of Vedanta students and their pilgrimages; and the Vedanta classes I took. One of the most meaningful results was to realize that the pilgrims I studied undertook their trips motivated not only by a religious dimension, but also by the expectations and cultural ideas related to the notions of journey (what provides its experience) and of India (a place seen as the most religious in the world).

Placencia Village is one of Belize’s leading “eco-destinations,” due to its sandy-white beaches, coral reefs, and wildlife sanctuaries. While the use of “green washing,” the process of deceptively marketing products, aims or policies as being environmentally friendly, has proven to be effective in attracting consumers who are thought to be environmentally and socially conscious, the exponential growth, coupled with the absence of established policies, represents a significant threat to Belize. This thesis examines the political-ecologic dimensions of rapid tourism expansion in Southern Belize by investigating how the health of the biophysical environment is perceived, what processes are responsible for change, and how these changes are impacting the socioeconomic livelihoods of the local people.

The master's thesis deals with long bus tours and role of tour leader. The theoretical core is interdisciplinary definition of tourism as a specific assemblage of practices with a relationship to people, objects, practices of others and self. The concept of the third space makes it possible to overcome the established definition of tourist within the traditional dichotomy (self - Other, home - away etc.). Therefore, the tourist is regarded as a metaphor of both these opposites simultaneously. The tourist experiences are concerned here as psychological phenomenon consists of expectations, perception of tourist events and tourist memory. The main objective of this paper is to explore formation of tourist experiences during specific conditions of long bus tours from Belarus to EU countries, and to reveal the importance of tour leader within this process. Keywords: bus tour, tour leader, tourism, tourist experiences, anthropology of tourism

Recent estimates suggest that there are currently around 4.8 million people who consider themselves to be digital nomads. They are widely depicted in the media, most often as young professionals who successfully combine work, leisure and travel into one holistic lifestyle. Despite this significant presence in today's popular culture, from a research point of view, digital nomadism is almost unexplored phenomenon. Therefore, the aim of this work is the analysis and interpretation of the phenomenon of digital nomadism, not only through my own ethnographic research and reflection, but also in terms of current theoretical concepts in anthropology of tourism and mobility. The research itself focuses mainly on selected aspects often associated with digital nomadism in the mainstream media, and how informants reflect them. I deal with aspects such as the blurred boundaries between work and leisure, mobility slowdown, the origin of co-working spaces, the concept of freedom and, last but not least, the social changes that have led to the global expansion of this phenomenon. Keywords: digital nomadism, anthropology of tourism, mobility, travelling, digital technologies, work

The goal of this thesis is to discuss how unusual delicacies are conceptualized in the perspective of sociocultural anthropology - specifically, in the context of anthropology of food. Unusual delicacies are to be understood as non-traditional, unique, but at the same time, shocking or perceived as "bizarre" meals. The complex description of the individual's experience during the consumption of unusual delicacies will help to analyze what is the overall perception of the experience, its pervasion into self-presentation, as well as what are the main motivations for it. Further, it is discussed what role the unusual delicacies play in the context of exploring foreign countries and whether they possess any cultural and symbolic meaning.

The subject of this thesis is the changing image of Prague after 1989 in the eyes of Spanish and English speaking tourists. After the "velvet revolution", the city has undergone many changes. With the liberalization of trade, restitutions of property and foreign investment, tourism infrastructure has been growing rapidly to accommodate the thousands of tourists who were flowing in to see the newly accessible city. As a result, the city and its residents have been facing many new challenges, acculturation processes and increasing globalization. The aim of this thesis is to explore the views of tourists, who visited Prague repeatedly since the beginning of the 90th to the present, on the changes of the city as well as the whole Czech society. The methodology employed included participant observation and semi-structured interviews. The research was conducted in the historical center of the city during 2010-2011 and subsequently through e-mail communication with the tourist participants. The work is complemented with quantitative statistical data describing the development of tourism in Prague. Based on the theory of the anthropology of tourism and the study of tourism, this work monitors acculturation and globalization processes leeding to the mcdonaldization of work, disneyzation and deurbanization...

Vyšehrad cemetery: Place of National Cemetery Abstrakt - English Lucie Babíčková In the beginning of the thesis I am interesting about the history of Vyšehrad cemetery and about some social live happening at this cemetery. For example I am interested in several additional funerals to this cemetery (for example Vlasta Burian), with several ceremonies around some people buried on Vyšehrad (Karel Čapek or Bedřich Smetana). I am also interested in the Svatobor society - society which founded this cemetery. In the fourth chapter I am writing about visitors of Vyšehrad and about their perception of Vyšehrad areal - especially what differences they can see between the park and the cemetery. I am working on this part mainly with theory of Pierre Nora about national monuments (or so-called places of memory). According his opinion nations can worship itself thanks these monuments and I think that Vyšehrad is one of these monuments in the Czech environment. I am also interested in some important events connected to the cemetery or about reasons for visiting this place. For this I am using typology of John Urry mostly.

The diploma thesis deals with the analysis of the gender aspects of women travelling and experience of women travellers, who set out to the non-Europe destinations on their own. The thesis is based on in-depth interviews with women travellers and analyze how these journeys are important to them. The thesis tries to point out that women's solo travelling directly effects their biography as well as career and status of these female travellers. Women independent travelling is introduced as the dynamic process, by means of which they acquire or verify the gender power and abilities, applicable to their personal life and work. Using the concepts of feminist theories implemented on women's travelling, I try to show that this type of travelling is affected by history and prefers male travelling, which displaces the individual women's travelling on the edge of the social and scientific interest. This thesis is based on the anthropology of tourism, particularly on the study of backpacking and set the experience of the woman traveller in the frame of the rites of passage. Moreover the thesis contains the analysis of the public and media discourse, focused on the real case of two young women kidnapped in Pakistan. Keywords: anthropology of tourism, women independent travellers, solo travelling, backpacking,...