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Beaches, Ruins, Resorts : The Politics of Tourism in the Arab World /

Despite being viewed as a dangerous region to visit, leisure travel across the Middle East has thrived even in the post-9/11 era. In Beaches, Ruins, Resorts, Waleed Hazbun investigates this overlooked industry to show how tourism is shaping the economic development and international relations of the...

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Autor principal: Hazbun, Waleed
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, 2008.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Fordism on the beach : Tunisia and the international division of leisure
  • Images of openness, spaces of control : tourism in Tunisia's new era
  • The geopolitics of tourism and the making of the new Middle East
  • The territorial politics of tourism in Jordan
  • The view from Dubai : post-9/11 geographies of travel.