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Tourism, progress and peace /

Tourism has the potential to contribute to world peace, and through appropriate management, to address current realities such as globalization, migration, conflicts, prejudices and poverty. This book discusses the interrelation between peace, conflict resolution and tourism, the role of industry, an...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Moufakkir, Omar, Kelly, Ian, 1934-
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Wallingford, UK ; Cambridge, MA : CABI, ©2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction: Peace and Tourism: Friends not Foes
  • Part I: Tourism and a culture of peace; Tourism and intercultural understanding or contact hypothesis revisited; Challenging peace through tourism: placing tourism in the context of human rights, justice and peace
  • Part II: Tourism which erases borders: an introspection into Bosnia and Herzegovina; Warming up peace: an encounter between Egyptian hosts and Israeli guests in Sinai; Border tourism attractions as a space for presenting and symbolizing peace; The role of sport events in peace tourism; Domestic tourism and peace: the Atlanta peace trails experience
  • Part III: Effects of the August 2008 war in Georgia on tourism and its resources; Volunteer tourism in Palestine: a normative perspective; Re-evaluating political tourism in the Holy Land: towards a conceptualization of peace tourism; Northern Ireland re-emerges from the ashes; How stable is peace linked with tourism?; Divided or reunited?; Tourism and reconciliation
  • Conclusion.