Tourism, progress and peace / edited by Omar Moufakkir and Ian Kelly - Oxfordshire, UK : CABI, 2010. - xxxii, 256 p.: ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction- Peace and tourism: friends not foes
Part I
Tourism and a culture of peace /J. haessly -- Tourism and intercultural understanding or contact hypothesis revisited /R. Tomljenovic -- Challenging peace through tourism: placing tourism in the context of human rights, justice and peace /F. Higgins-Desbiolles and L. Blanchard

Part II
Tourism which erases borders: an introspection into Bosnia and Herzegovina /D. Maoz -- Border tourism attractions as a space for presenting and symbolizing peace /A. Gelbman -- The role of sport events in peace tourism /N. Schulenkorf and D. Edwards -- Domestic tourism and peace: the Atlanta peace trails experience /G.Y. Lash, A. Kay Smith and C. Smith

Part III
Effects of the august 2008 war in Georgia on tourism and its resources /M. Metreveli and D.J. Timothy -- Volunteer tourism in Palestine: a normative perspective /R.K. Isaac and V. Platenkamp -- Re-evaluating political tourism in the holy land: towards a conceptualization of peace tourism /O. Moufakkir -- Northern ireland re-emerges from the ashes: the contribution of political tourism towards a more visited and peaceful environment /M.T. Simone-Charteris and S.W. Boyd -- How stable is peace linked with tourism? the case of Mt Geumgang tourism development project on the Korean Peninsula /Yongseok Shin -- Divided or reunited? Prospects for the Cyprus tourism industry /B. Musyck ... [et al.]. -- Tourism and reconciliation /I. Kelly and A. Nkabahona

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