Tourism in the Middle East : : Continuity, Change and Transformation /

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

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 r...

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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
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Physical Description:1 online resource (344 p.)
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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

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