Description
Book SynopsisTourism has the potential to contribute to world peace, and through appropriate management, to address current realities such as globalization, migration, conflicts, prejudices and poverty. By providing a range of international perspectives and case studies, this book discusses the interrelation between peace, conflict resolution and tourism, the role of industry and the role of the individual, and tourism as a catalyst for change and development. Exploring the ideas that there is more to peace than the absence of war and that there is more to tourism than economic interests, this book is the first of its kind and an essential resource for researchers, students and policymakers in tourism and related subjects.
Table of Contents1: Tourism and a Culture of Peace 2: Tourism and Inter-Cultural Understanding or Contact Hypothesis Revisited 3: Challenging Peace through Tourism: Placing Tourism in the Context of Human Rights, Justice and Peace 4: Tourism which erases borders: An Introspection into Bosnia and Herzegovina 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 9: Effects of the August 2008 War in Georgia on Tourism and Its Resources 10: Volunteer Tourism in Palestine 11: Re-evaluating Political Tourism in the Holy Land 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
