Cultural and Heritage Tourism in the Middle East and North Africa

Complexities, Management and Practices
Herausgeber: Seyfi, Siamak; Hall, C Michael

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Produktbeschreibung

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of cultural and heritage tourism in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region and the many complexities that heritage sites and tourist attractions face.

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Produktdetails

• Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
• Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
• Seitenzahl: 260
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 558g
• ISBN-13: 9780367232719
• ISBN-10: 0367232715
• Artikelnr.: 60017820

Autorenporträt

C. Michael Hall is a Professor in the Department of Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Docent in Geography, University of Oulu, Finland; a Visiting Professor in Tourism at Linnaeus University, Kalmar, Sweden; and a Guest Professor in the Department of Service Management and Service Studies, Lund University, Helsingborg, Sweden. He has written widely on tourism, regional development, heritage, food and global environmental change. Siamak Seyfi is an Assistant Professor at the Geography Research Unit of the University of Oulu, Finland. Using an interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary approach, his research interests focus on tourism politics and geopolitics with a primary focus on the MENA region, cultural heritage, resilience, sustainability as well as qualitative sociological/ethnographic research methods in tourism.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Cultural heritage tourism in the MENA: introduction and background. 2.
Tourism and the multi-faith Heritage of the Middle East and North Africa: A
Resource Perspective. 3. Contesting religious heritage in the Middle East.
4. Making a sense of place for Safranbolu World Heritage Site: An analysis
of Safranbolu: Reflections of Time. 5. Cultural heritage and tourism in
Tunisia: evolution, challenges and perspectives. 6. Touring 'our' past:
World Heritage tourism and post-colonialism in Morocco. 7. National Park or
Urban Green Space: The Case of [Tel] Ashkelon. 8. Cultural Heritage in
Palestine: Challenges and Opportunities. 9. Visitors' expectation and
experience in a World Heritage site: Evidence from ancient Gobekli Tepe,
Sanliurfa, Turkey. 10. Themepark Arabism: Disneyfying the UAE's Heritage
for Western Tourist Consumption. 11. Integrated Cultural Heritage Planning
in Egypt: A catalyst for tourism after the Arab Spring? 12. UNESCO's World
Heritage Sites: The interplay between international and local branding for
the Gonbad-e Q¿bus Brick Tower, Iran. 13. Factors influencing residents'
perceptions toward heritage tourism: A gender perspective. 14. Climate
Change Threats to Cultural and Heritage Tourism in Iran. 15. Conclusion:
The futures of cultural heritage tourism in the MENA countries