Tourism in the Middle East : : Continuity, Change and Transformation / / ed. by Rami Farouk Daher.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter CVP eBook-Package Backfile 2000-2013
• MitwirkendeR: Burns, Peter,; Daher, Rami Farouk,; Guillot, Xavier,; Homa, David,; Macleod, Scott,; Mahadin, Saba Al,; Mahadin, Salam Al,; Mershen, Birgit,; Nasser, Noha,; Orbaşli, Aylin,
• HerausgeberIn: Daher, Rami Farouk,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol, UK;, Blue Ridge Summit, PA : : Channel View Publications, , [2006]; ©2006
• Year of Publication: 2006
• Language: English
• Series: Tourism and Cultural Change ; 9
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (344 p.)

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 & tourism development, urban tourism, heritage conservation & tourism, and tourism related investments through a new vision for the region that transcends current geopolitics or national and formal historiographies.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgements -- The Contributors -- Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Reconceptualizing Tourism in the Middle East: Place, Heritage, Mobility and Competitiveness -- Chapter 2. A Historiography of Tourism in Cairo: A Spatial Perspective -- Chapter 3. From One Globalization to Another: In Search of the Seeds of Modern Tourism in the Levant, a Western Perspective -- Chapter 4. Digital Spatial Representations: New Communication Processes and 'Middle Eastern' UNESCO World Heritage Sites Online -- Chapter 5. Visitors, Visions and Veils: The Portrayal of the Arab World in Tourism Advertising -- Chapter 6. The 'Islamic' City and Tourism: Managing Conservation and Tourism in Traditional Neighbourhoods -- Chapter 7. Development of Community-based Tourism in Oman: Challenges and Opportunities -- Chapter 8. From Hajj to Hedonism? Paradoxes of Developing Tourism in Saudi Arabia -- Chapter 9. Touristic Development in Sinai, Egypt: Bedouin, Visitors, and Government Interaction -- Chapter 10. Tourism, Heritage, and Urban Transformations in Jordan and Lebanon: Emerging Actors and Global-Local Juxtapositions -- Chapter 11. Tourism and Power Relations in Jordan: Contested Discourses and Semiotic Shifts