Tourism, progress and peace /

• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Wallingford, Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2010.
• Subjects: Tourism.; Tourism > Social aspects.; Social Psychology and Social Anthropolgy, (New March 2000); Conflict, (New March 2000); Tourism and Travel.; Conflict.; Host guest relations.; Sociology of tourism.; Electronic books.
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The objectives of this book are threefold: (i) to identify and learn from examples of a positive relationship between tourism and peace; (ii) to make available the output of and to stimulate further academic research and scholarship focused on the tourism and peace proposition; and (iii) to move on...

Table of Contents:

• Tourism and a culture of peace / J. Haessly
• Tourism and intercultural understanding or contact hypothesis revisited / R. Tomljenović
• Challenging peace through tourism : placing tourism in the context of human rights, justice and peace / F. Higgins-Desbiolles and L. Blanchard
• Tourism which erases borders : an introspection into Bosnia and Herzegovina / S. Causevic
• Warming up peace : an encounter between Egyptian hosts and Israeli guests in Sinai / D. Maoz
• Border tourism attractions as a space for presenting and symbolizing peace / A. Gelbman
• The role of sport events in peace tourism / N. Schulenkorf and D. Edwards
• Domestic tourism and peace : the Atlanta peace trails experience / G.Y. Lash, A. Kay Smith and C. Smith
• Effects of the August 2008 war in Georgia on tourism and its resources / M. Metreveli and D.J. Timothy
• Volunteer tourism in Palestine : a normative perspective / R.K. Isaac and V. Platenkamp
• Re-evaluating political tourism in the Holy Land : towards a conceptualization of peace tourism / O. Moufakkir
• Northern Ireland re-emerges from the ashes : the contribution of political tourism towards a more visited and peaceful environment / M.T. Simone-Charteris and S.W. Boyd
• How stable is peace linked with tourism? The case of Mt. Geumgang tourism development project on the Korean Peninsula / Yongseok Shin
• Divided or reunited? Prospects for the Cyprus tourism industry / B. Musyck, D. Jacobson, O. Mehmet, S. Orphantdes and C. Webster
• Tourism and reconciliation / I. Kelly and A. Nkabahona.