Tourism, Progress, and Peace / edited by Omar Moufakkir, Ian Kelly.

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Moufakkir, Omar

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Publication details: Wallingford ; Cambridge, Mass. : CAB International, c2010.Description: xxxii, 256 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

9781845936778 (hbk.)

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338.4791 22 MOU

Contents:

Part I : 1. Introduction and a culture of peace 2. Tourism and intercultural understanding or contact hypothesis revisited 3. Challenging peace through tourism: Placing tourism in the context of human rights, justice and peace

Part II 4. Tourism which erases borders: an introspection into bosnia and herzegovia 5. Warming up peace: an encounter between egyptian hosts and israeli guests in sinai 6. Border tourism attractions as a space for presenting and symbolizing peace 7. The role of sport events in peace tourism 8. Domestic tourism and peace: the atlanta peace trails experience

Part III 9. Effects of the August 2008 war in georgia on tourism and its resources 10. Volunteer tourism in palestine: a normative perspective 11. Re-evaluating political tourism in the holy land: Towards a conceptualization of peace tourism 12. Northern ireland re-emerges from the ashes: the contribution of political tourism towards a more visited and peaceful environment 13. How stable is peace linked with tourism? The case of Mt geumgang tourism development project on the korean peninsula 14. Divided or Reunited? Prospects for the Cyprus tourism industry 15. Tourism and reconciliation

Summary: Tourism has attracted increasing interest from not only scholars with a background in the subject, but also those studying in a number of other fields, given the growing relevance of areas such as psychology, sociology, planning and marketing. As such, this book brings together twelve chapters addressing various aspects of tourism development, from sustainability and ecotourism to cases of developing alternative tourism products. The contributions are enriched through selected practical case studies from a wide range of countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Slovenia, Vietnam, Malaysia.

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Tourism has attracted increasing interest from not only scholars with a background in the subject, but also those studying in a number of other fields, given the growing relevance of areas such as psychology, sociology, planning and marketing. As such, this book brings together twelve chapters addressing various aspects of tourism development, from sustainability and ecotourism to cases of developing alternative tourism products. The contributions are enriched through selected practical case studies from a wide range of countries, including the United Arab Emirates, Slovenia, Vietnam, Malaysia.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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