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Title The politics and power of tourism in Palestine / edited by Rami Isaac, C. Michael Hall and Freya Higgins-Desbiolles
Published London : Routledge, 2015

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations (black and white)
Series Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility.
Contents Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; PART I An overview of tourism in Palestine; 2 Palestine as a tourism destination; PART II The ways in which tourism matters to Palestine; 3 Solidarity tourism in Palestine: the alternative tourism group of Palestine as a catalyzing instrument of resistance; 4 Bike and hike in Palestine; 5 Ongoing dispossession and a heritage of resistance: the village of Battir vs. Israeli settler-colonialism
6 World Heritage Site in Bethlehem and its potential reflections on tourism7 Experiential community-based rural tourism potential in Palestine: challenges and potentials; 8 Diaspora and VFR: an exploratory study; 9 Pilgrimage tourism to Palestine; 10 Gaza: the missing tourism assets; PART III The ways in which Palestine matters to tourism; 11 Tourism, travel and academic (and cultural) boycotting; 12 The folds of place: re-visiting questions of travel in Israel/Palestine; 13 Walled off from the world: Palestine, tourism and resisting occupation; PART IV Conclusion: future visioning
14 Towards the future of tourism and pilgrimage in Bethlehem, Jerusalem and Palestine15 Envisioning a tourism of peace in the Gaza Strip; 16 The State of Palestine: the newest country probably with the oldest nation brand in the world; 17 Giving Palestinian tourism(s) a voice; Appendix: a Code of Conduct for tourism in the Holy Land; Index
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Tourism -- Palestine
Tourism -- Political aspects -- Palestine
Tourism
Tourism -- Political aspects
Middle East -- Palestine
Form Electronic book
Author Isaac, Rami, editor
Hall, Colin Michael, 1961- editor.
Higgins-Desbiolles, Freya, editor
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