Reflections on Life Purpose / Yvette Reisinger -- Personal Transformation and Travel and Tourism / Yvette Reisinger -- Destination under Discipline : Foucault and the Transformation of Place Makers / Keith Hollinshead, Milka Ivanova and Kellee Caton -- The Normalization of Places and Spaces : Tourism and Transformation - A Glossary on the Eye-of-Authority / Keith Hollinshead, Kellee Caton and Milka Ivanova -- Where is the Host? An Analytic Autoethnographic Inquiry in Transformational Tourism / Sagar Singh -- The Political and Social Transformation of Roma and Jewish Communities through Tourism in Budapest / Melanie Smith and Anita Zatori -- Tourism, Transformation and Urban Ethnic Communities : The Case of Matonge, Brussels/ Anya Diekmann and Isabelle Cloquet -- The Travelling Favela : Cosmopolitanisms from Above and from Below / Bianca Freire-Medeiros and Gabriel Cohen -- Transforming Nature's Value - Cultural Change Comes from Below : Rural Communities, the "Othered" and Host Capacity Building / Stephen Schweinsberg, Stephen Wearing and Michael Wearing -- Transformation of Local Lives through Volunteer Tourism : Peruvian and Thai Case Studies / Elisa Burrai and Jose Ignacio de las Cuevas -- The Impact of Extreme Sports on Host Communities' Psychological Growth and Development / Eric Brymer and Susan Houge Mackenzie -- Transformation and the WWOOF Exchange : The Host Experience / Adrian Deville -- Ethnic Conflict : Is Heritage Tourism Part of the Solution or Part of the Problem? / Gregory Ashworth -- Developing a Tourism Poverty Reduction Strategy / Omar Moufakkir and Ian Kelly -- Conclusion / Yvette Reisinger.