Author

Publication

2010 - Channel View Publications, Limited

Language

English

Word Count

81,250 words, Guess

Page Count

325 pages

Identifiers

  • ISBN-139781280705366
  • ISBN-101280705361
  • Better World Books9781280705366
  • Open LibraryOL35786292M

Description

This edited volume on tourism in the Middle East embodies a multi-discursive approach to the study of tourism in the region offering not only different perspectives but qualifying local knowledge and realities. The book re-examines the discourse of tourism within geopolitical contemporary regional realities. The book re-conceptualizes tourism as a discourse linked to heritage and identity construction, national and global economies, and development of local communities. Alternatively, a new discursive approach to the understanding of tourism emerges out of invigorating and stimulating latent regional realities and the social histories of various towns, villages, and cultural landscapes within the contested and politically-charged region of the Middle East. The book investigates issues of national identity, authenticity, definition of heritage, representation of cultures and regions, community and tourism development, urban tourism, heritage conservation and tourism, and tourism related investments through a new vision for the region that transcends current geopolitics or national and formal historiographies.

Subjects

Other Editions

  • Tourism in the Middle EastChannel View Publications, Limited2010

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