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Author: Rami Daher
Publisher: Multilingual Matters
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 1845410505
DOWNLOAD EBOOK'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.
Author: Siamak Seyfi
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2020-09-28
Total Pages: 190
ISBN-13: 1000177165
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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. The MENA region has long been regarded as the cradle of Western and Arab civilisation and is the home of many of the world’s major religions. Because of this, the region is rich in heritage sites that serve as major tourist attractions and as icons of national, cultural and religious identity. However, as this book examines, heritage in the region is simultaneously highly contested and has even become a target for terrorism creating a situation that brought major challenges for heritage management and sustainable tourism development. Many of the region’s innumerable cultural sites are threatened, in some cases by overuse, in others by neglect and, in many, simply by the pressures of economic development. This book is therefore of interest not only to heritage managers and policy makers but those academics who seek to address the delicate balance between tourism development, communities and the tourists who visit such sites in a turbulent but highly significant region of the world.
Author: Dallen J. Timothy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-07
Total Pages: 786
ISBN-13: 1317229231
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Routledge Handbook on Tourism in the Middle East and North Africa examines the importance of tourism as a historical, economic, social, environmental, religious and political force in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). It highlights the ecological and resource challenges related to water, desert environments, climate change and oil. It provides an in-depth analysis of the geopolitical conditions that have long determined the patterns of tourism demand and supply throughout the region and how these play out in the everyday lives of residents and destinations as they attempt to grow tourism or ignore it entirely. While cultural heritage remains the primary tourism asset for the region as a whole, many new types of tourisms are emerging, especially in the Arabian Gulf region, where hyper-development is closely associated with the increasingly prominent role of luxury real estate and shopping, retail, medical tourism, cruises and transit tourism. The growing phenomenon of an expatriate workforce, and how its segregation from the citizenry creates a dual socio-economic system in several countries, is unmatched by other regions of the world. Many indigenous people of MENA keep themselves apart from other dominant groups in the region, although these social boundaries are becoming increasingly blurred as tourism, being one socio-economic force for change, has inspired many nomadic peoples to settle into towns and villages and rely more on tourists for their livelihoods. All of these issues and more shape the foundations of this book. This Handbook is the first of its kind to examine tourism from a broad regional and inclusive perspective, surveying a broad range of social, cultural, heritage, ecological and political matters in a single volume. With a wide range of contributors, many of whom are natives of the Middle East and North Africa, this Handbook is a vital resource for students and scholars interested in Tourism, Middle East Studies and Geography.
Author: Mamoon Allan
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2023-05-24
Total Pages: 280
ISBN-13: 3031241703
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe geotourism industry has grown rapidly in recent years. This book introduces the geotourism industry, its attractions, activities and developments, in selected countries of the Middle East. A number of publications and studies have investigated the nature and scope of the phenomenon of geotourism (tourism which starts from geology) and geotourists worldwide. However, despite the breadth of these studies, few publications have investigated the phenomena in the Middle Eastern countries. Consequently, this book seeks to shed light on the different aspects of geotourism and geo-diversity in the Middle East and provides a number of case studies from this region. It assists in bridging the lacuna in the tourism and geology literature and helps planners, marketers, managers, scholars and researchers to enhance their knowledge about such issues. It outlines opportunities for, as well as barriers to, geotourism development in the Middle East as well as providing recommendations for the advancement of geotourism in the region.
Author: World Tourism Organization. Market Intelligence and Promotion Section
Publisher: WTO
Published: 2006
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9789284411122
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs part of a series of annual reports which analyse trends in international tourism, this volume focuses on regional and subregional tourism flows and earnings in 2004 in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region as a whole, and by individual country, including arrivals, receipts, hotel capacity and major source markets. Overall, in 2004, the region received just over 36 million international tourist arrivals (almost five per cent of all arrivals worldwide), representing a growth rate of 21 per cent and part of a consistent growth pattern over recent years. Saudi Arabia continues to be the leading tourist destination in the region registering 8.6 million arrivals in 2004, followed by Egypt, Tunisia and Morocco.
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Published: 2001
Total Pages: 126
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis is one of a series of six regional reports by the World Tourism Organization which consider trends in international tourism. The focus is on in-bound tourism. This report is divided into three sections: an overview of developments in the tourism market in the Middle East; a subregional analysis of tourism performance; and an indepth look at tourism trends within each country. The report covers the countries of the Middle East, North Africa and some Mediterranean areas. The statistics have been supplied by the individual countries and comparability is not assured due to variations in data collection methods. In 2000, there were 20.6 million international tourist arrivals in the Middle East region, which represents a 12.9% growth over the previous year.
Author: Professor Luna Khirfan
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Published: 2014-12-28
Total Pages: 197
ISBN-13: 1409424073
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book offers an interdisciplinary approach to the key relationships between heritage conservation, city space design, and tourism development in historic cities, linking theory and practice in a unique way. The book offers an investigation of three Middle Eastern historic cities, Aleppo, Acre and Salt, all of which face significant challenges of heritage conservation, adaptation to contemporary needs, and tourism development. It presents practical scenarios for the conservation and design of historic urban spaces and the development of sustainable tourism, from the perspective of planners, local communities and international tourists. The author offers a comparative approach which transcends political strife and provides valuable lessons for the other cities inscribed on UNESCO's World Heritage List, especially those in developing countries.
Author: Dallen Timothy
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2018-12-07
Total Pages: 409
ISBN-13: 131722924X
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Routledge Handbook on Tourism in the Middle East and North Africa examines the importance of tourism as a historical, economic, social, environmental, religious and political force in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). It highlights the ecological and resource challenges related to water, desert environments, climate change and oil. It provides an in-depth analysis of the geopolitical conditions that have long determined the patterns of tourism demand and supply throughout the region and how these play out in the everyday lives of residents and destinations as they attempt to grow tourism or ignore it entirely. While cultural heritage remains the primary tourism asset for the region as a whole, many new types of tourisms are emerging, especially in the Arabian Gulf region, where hyper-development is closely associated with the increasingly prominent role of luxury real estate and shopping, retail, medical tourism, cruises and transit tourism. The growing phenomenon of an expatriate workforce, and how its segregation from the citizenry creates a dual socio-economic system in several countries, is unmatched by other regions of the world. Many indigenous people of MENA keep themselves apart from other dominant groups in the region, although these social boundaries are becoming increasingly blurred as tourism, being one socio-economic force for change, has inspired many nomadic peoples to settle into towns and villages and rely more on tourists for their livelihoods. All of these issues and more shape the foundations of this book. This Handbook is the first of its kind to examine tourism from a broad regional and inclusive perspective, surveying a broad range of social, cultural, heritage, ecological and political matters in a single volume. With a wide range of contributors, many of whom are natives of the Middle East and North Africa, this Handbook is a vital resource for students and scholars interested in Tourism, Middle East Studies and Geography.
Author: Hamed Almuhrzi
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Published: 2017-06-15
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 1845416163
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book is the first to explore Arabic tourism from a business viewpoint, rather than taking a sociological, anthropological or political stance. It focuses on business planning, management and marketing destinations in the Arab World, which are topics crucial for industry stakeholders and which have previously been neglected in the tourism literature. The book examines similarities and differences in the emergence and development of the tourism industry in countries across the Arab world as well as its inbound and outbound travel flows. It analyses several different aspects of Arabic tourism including tourism policy, organisation and planning, tourism product development, destination marketing and consumer behaviour. This volume will be of interest to postgraduate students and researchers of tourism studies, business and Middle Eastern studies.
Author: World Tourism Organization. Market Intelligence and Promotion Section
Publisher:
Published: 2003
Total Pages: 136
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis report was presented at a World Tourism Organization seminar, held in Egypt in September 2002, to discuss prospects and trends in tourism to Middle East and North African (MENA) countries. Issues examined include: attitudes towards travel, leisure and holidays; typical activities undertaken and holiday satisfaction levels; perceived barriers to visiting the region; health, safety and security issues. It looks at a range of visitor profiles, both in terms of the identified characteristics of current and potential visitors to the MENA region, and by individual country.
