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Tourism, Progress and Peace

May 10th, 2010 | Lectorat, News & Info, Publications

Contents:

Introduction: Peace and Tourism: Friends not Foes

1. Tourism and a Culture of Peace

2. Tourism and Inter-Cultural Understanding or Contact Hypothesis Revisited

3. Challenging Peace through Tourism: Placing Tourism in the Context of Human Rights, Justice and Peace

4. Tourism which erases borders: An Introspection into Bosnia and Herzegovina

5. Warming up Peace: An Encounter between Egyptian Hosts and Israeli Guests in Sinai

6. Border Tourism Attractions as a Space for presenting and Symbolizing Peace

7. The Role of Sport Events in Peace Tourism

8. Domestic Tourism and Peace: The Atlanta Peace Trails Experience

Edited By O. Moufakkir and I. Kelly

Tourism has the potential to contribute to world peace, and through appropriate management, to address current realities such as globalization, migration, conflicts, prejudices and poverty. By providing a range of international perspectives and case studies, this book discusses the interrelation between peace, conflict resolution and tourism, the role of industry and the role of the individual, and tourism as a catalyst for change and development. Exploring the ideas that there is more to peace than the absence of war and that there is more to tourism than economic interests, this book is the first of its kind and an essential resource for researchers, students and policymakers in tourism and related subjects.

9. Effects of the August 2008 War in Georgia on Tourism and Its Resources

10. Volunteer Tourism in Palestine Perspective

11. Re-evaluating Political Tourism in the Holy Land: towards a Conceptualization of Peace Tourism

12. Northern Ireland Re-emerges from the Ashes: the Contribution of Political Tourism towards a more Visited and Peaceful Environment

13. How Stable is Peace Linked with Tourism? The case of Mt. Geumgang Tourism Development Project on the Korean Peninsula

14. Divided or Reunited? Prospects for the Cyprus Tourism Industry

15. Tourism and Reconciliation

Conclusion

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Dutch people who visited Morocco have less negative perceptions of the Moroccans living in the Netherlands

April 14th, 2010 | Conferences, Lectorat, News & Info, Publications

This communication is based on the results of a mixed-mode survey design. The first qualitative research phase has set the ground for the quantitative research conducted in the second phase of the study (click on title to read more). For more information contact us by e-mail: omar.moufakkir@stenden.com or by phone: (00)31 582441301.

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In a few years, the growing number of immigrants has transformed culture shock into culture unrest (Moufakkir, 2008, p.86), defined as “the context where two cultures live together, but at a level of acceptance that has developed from a state of euphoria, apathy, to annoyance, or even antagonism”, sometimes expressed verbally and even physically. In a destination image study, we found the Dutch perceptions of people of Moroccan origin living in the Netherlands to be overwhelmingly negative, confirming similar opinions expressed in the media (ref. Table 1, qualitative information). The social and political landscape of the Netherlands was infected by the murder of right wing politician Pim Fortuyn just before the national election in May 2002. Despite and/or because of his death, his party List Pim Fortuyn (LPF) won 17% of the national vote, making it the second strongest political party in the country. Besides a rising mistrust of politicians, Fortuyn’s success was attributed to the issue of ‘unsuccessful’ integration of ethnic minorities (Krouwel et al., 2006) or what Scheffer (2000) referred to as the “multi-cultural drama”. In addition to this, the murder in November 2004 of outspoken anti-Islamic opinion-leader, filmmaker Theo van Gogh, shocked the nation. In such a tragic environment, the fear of inter-ethnic polarization, as well as the need for effective measures for integration, appears to be a reality (Krouwel et al., 2006). During the March 2010 Dutch municipal elections the PVV won in Almere with 21.6 % of all votes, making it the biggest party in the city with nine seats in the municipal board. In Den Haag, winning eight seats, they came second to the PVDA (Labor Party) and became more popular than the CDA (Christian Democrats). More importantly, a public opinion poll (peiling) of 2500 voters undertaken by Synovate during the same period indicated that this ultranationalist party would be the third most important political party in the country with 24 seats compared to nine seats in 2006. The poll by Maurice de Hond, also a very well known poll group, indicated that the PVV would become the biggest party in the country with 27 seats. As was reported in the media, these results were a shock to Dutch people and to the world community, because of the reputation of the Netherlands as a multi-cultural society noted for its tolerance and multiculturalism.

ScreenHunter_05 Apr. 14 11.07 The results of a study conducted by the Tourism for Peace (lectoraat) research group are (graphs below), no surprise because they simply confirm ”public opinion” perceptions about the Moroccan Allochtonen in the Netherlands which are overwhelmingly negative. The whys of this phenon is not the subject of this communication. Rather, it is noted that Dutch people who visited Morocco were found to be less prejudiced towards Moroccans than those who did not. Tourism, in the context of this study seems to reduce prejudice. Furthermore, as those who have visited Morocco appear to be less prejudiced than those who did not, it could be suggested that tourism has to some extent a positive impact on perceptions.

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The 1st European Conference on Peace through Tourism

December 11th, 2008 | Conferences, Presentations, Publications

The 1st European Conference on Peace and Tourism has received about 400 registrations, and attracted 190 participants from 35 countries. Press on the names of speakers to view their presentations.

Welcome Address Louis D’Amore
Opening Ceremony Jannewietske de Vries
Opening Ceremony Edmund Bartlett
Plenary 1 Hon Gil da Costa Alves
Plenary 1 Hon N Nandi Ndaitwah
Plenary 2 Hon Phillip Savadoga
Plenary 2 Vasilis Morfopoulos
Plenary 2 John Hummel
Plenary 3 Catherine Rubbens
Plenary 3 Ginger Smith
Plenary 4 Janos Damon
Plenary 4 Senator Tokunbo Afikuyomi
Plenary 4 Luigi Cabrini
Plenary 5 Dallen Timothy
Plenary 5 Irena Ateljevic
Plenary 5 Myriam Jansen Verbeke