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Cover -- Themed editorial: What are the growth drivers and challenges for tourism in the Middle East? -- What are tourism's growth drivers and challenges in the Middle East? -- Tourism policy and United Nations Sustainable Development Goal 16: peace and stability in the Middle East and North Africa -- Exploring the tourism development strategies of Gulf Cooperation Council countries: commonalities, contrasts and clusters -- Understanding barriers to inbound medical tourism in the United Arab Emirates from a provider's perspective -- Local tourists' perceptions of tourist destinations' competitiveness: a comparative study of the United Arab Emirates, Egypt, and Oman -- Exploring the challenges for medical tourism in the United Arab Emirates during the Covid-19 pandemic era: a stakeholder perspective -- Marketing strategies for the tourism industry in the United Arab Emirates after the COVID-19 era -- The role of artificial intelligence and blockchain technologies in sustainable tourism in the Middle East -- Middle East tourism - Opportunities and solutions -- Reflections on the theme issue outcomes: what are the growth drivers for tourism in the Middle East?.

"This 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"--Provided by publisher

Urban planners and conservationists in historic cities around the world grapple with the competing interests of conservation, urban design, and economic and social development. This 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

"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. 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"--

Chapter 1. Heritage : from history to commodity -- Chapter 2. Heritage tourism supply and demand -- Chapter 3. Managing heritage tourism -- Chapter 4. Authenticity and commodification in heritage tourism -- Chapter 5. Politics of heritage tourism -- Chapter 6. Heritage tourism, nation and identity -- Chapter 7. Heritage tourism and globalisation -- Chapter 8. Heritage marketing -- Chapter 9. Heritage tourism and sustainable development -- Chapter 10. Heritage tourism and cities -- Chapter 11. Museums and heritage tourism development -- Chapter 12. Contemporary issues in heritage tourism.

This book on tourism in the Middle East embodies a multi-discursive approach to the study of tourism offering not only different views but qualifying local knowledge and realities.It investigates issues of national identity, authenticity, heritage, representation of cultures and regions, community and tourism development and urban tourism.

Sonderbericht über die Situation des Tourismus- und Reisesektors im Vorderen Orient mit besonderer Berücksichtigung des Hotelwesens, des Flugverkehrs in die Golfstaaten und des Yacht-Tourismus in der Türkei. (DÜI-Asd)

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Approaches to Industrial Heritage Tourism -- 2. A Framework for Approaching Industrial Heritage Tourism -- 3. The Proposal for the Jeep Museum in Toledo, Ohio -- 4. Perceptions of Attractiveness for Salt Heritage Tourism -- 5. Waterfront Redevelopment and Urban Morphology -- 6. La Fabrique des Lieux: The LX Factory and the Westergasfabriek -- Conclusions -- References -- Index

By the time I completed fieldwork in Qatar in 2016, the Msheireb project that aimed to redevelop the heart of Doha was nearing completion of its first phase. The way this development project unfolded during this time was indicative of broader negotiations of Qatari cultural brokers with ideas of indigeneity and expertise: the project was rebranded from Dohaland, "The Heart of Doha," to Msheireb (after the local wadi) in the first half of 2011, while the iconic Al Kahraba Street—the "spine" of the old city and the first street to be electrified in Qatar—was referred to in architectural notations as the "Champs-Élysées" of Doha. The politics of indigeneity of place-making in these negotiations reflected an unresolved unease with the cosmopolitan nature of expertise. This tension was related not necessarily to the ingenious remixing of traditional and modern concepts of cultural and environmental sustainability, but rather to the active erasure of foreign expertise. We see this, for example, in the active rebranding of the I. M. Pei's Museum (in reference to the Chinese American "starchitect" who designed it) in order to take its rightful "local" name, the Museum of Islamic Art. While these efforts would suggest an intention to localize expertise and build local capacity as part of national objectives, I argue in this essay that this mastering in fact obscures local expertise by dissociating it from the cosmopolitan context in which knowledge production is negotiated in Qatar.

Creating Heritage for Tourism- Front Cover -- Creating Heritage for Tourism -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of illustrations -- Figures -- Tables -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Chapter 1: Heritage for tourism: creating a link between the past and the present -- Chapters and case studies -- References -- Chapter 2: Creating a destination through language: Welsh linguistic heritage in Patagonia -- Introduction -- From history to heritage tourism -- Welsh heritage in Patagonia -- Language ideology and heritage tourism in Welsh Patagonia -- Tourist profiles and experience -- Discussion -- Conclusions -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 3: Performing national identity in heritage tourism: observations from Catalonia -- Introduction -- Heritage and memory in the 1714-2014 tercentenary celebrations -- Official recognition of culinary heritage: ups and downs -- Experiencing national (and culinary) heritage through tourism -- Insiders and outsiders, Catalans and non-Catalans -- Conclusion -- Note -- References -- Chapter 4: Heritage defined and maintained through conflict re-enactments: the Estonian Museum of Occupations and the Forest Brothers Bunker -- Introduction -- The Estonian 'Forest Brothers' -- The Museum of Occupations -- The Forest Brothers Bunker -- Interview findings -- Discussion and conclusions -- References -- Chapter 5: Constructing heritage, shaping tourism: Festivals and local heritage governance at Hampi World Heritage Site, Karnataka, India -- Introduction -- Introducing the actors: site, events, local government and tourism -- Local governance and tourism at the festivals -- Discussion: in the name of the tourist -- Conclusion -- Acknowledgements -- Notes -- References -- Chapter 6: Creating heritage for cruise tourists -- Introduction -- Cruise passengers' experience of place