September 24th, 2011 | Lectoraat, News & Info, Publications, Research Projects
Tourism impacts on the locations it promotes in many ways – socially, environmentally, culturally, and economically. These impacts present controversial views on the viability of tourism as a leisure activity and a business. This book goes beyond a study of tourism impacts to discuss the controversies within the impacts that tourism has on people and nature. Established controversies surrounding tourism development, policy and promotion, ecotourism, host and guest encounters, mega-events, dark tourism, gaming and others are discussed; and so are some emerging controversies such as those related to medical tourism, volunteer tourism, wildlife tourism and residential tourism. Relevant case studies discussing the controversies related to the impacts of tourism on destinations such as the hill tribes of Thailand, Chitwan National Park in Nepal, Mexico’s Mayan Riviera and the host community in The Gambia are also included. An interesting and thought provoking work, this book is ideal for tourism students, researchers, academics and policymakers.
 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.
June 19th, 2011 | Lectoraat, News & Info, Publications
Welcome to
The Journal of Tourism and Peace Research
This academic journal is published by the International Center for Peace through Tourism Research/Lectoraat Tourism for Peace
Stenden University –ISSN 1878-7754,
www.icptr.com
The main aim of The Journal of Tourism and Peace Research is to provide a peer-reviewed forum for the study and discussion of tourism and peace issues in tourism and tourism-related areas of leisure, recreation and hospitality studies. The realities of the 21st Century, including globalization, the EU enlargement, immigration, terrorism, home-grown terror, made and natural catastrophes, conflicts, stereotypes, perceptions, and rising poverty, necessitate a closer look at the role of tourism. The Journal of Tourism and Peace Research is an international journal that encompasses all aspects of tourism and leisure oriented to peace, cooperation and conflict solutions. Tourism and Peace is broad in scope and deals with many factors relating to peace, such as appropriate planning, international cooperation, peace through tourism, tourism in conflict-ridden areas, avoiding potential negative impacts of tourism and mitigating existing ones, tourism and human rights, peace museums, tourism and attitude change, inappropriate tourism behavior, inappropriate industry behavior, tourism and peace initiatives and examples of good practice through tourism, tourism and borders – physical and perceptual, tourism and cross cultural behavior and understanding, tourism encounters, political tourism, and ethical tourism. The major concerns of the journal revolve around the myths, realities and potential of tourism as an agent of peace. Critical questions concerning the extent to which tourism can contribute to the multifaceted nature of peace, and help it to function in an ethical manner can guide our research.
(We live in the digital age, and the power of the digital is instant messaging and instant sharing. Thus, we will make sure that your paper has been reviewed within three weeks after submission, and is published right away after acceptance, to reach and share knowledge with the haves and the have nots within a lapse of time.)
The JTPR is a free of charge peer-reviewed online journal.
Visit us at www.icptr.com. You have easy access to the issues.
Omar Moufakkir, PhD
Editor-in-Chief
Lector Tourism for Peace
Course Leader MA International Leisure and Tourism Studies
MA International Events Management
www.icptr.com
May 10th, 2010 | Lectoraat, 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
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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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April 14th, 2010 | Conferences, Lectoraat, 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.
 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.
In the 9th century B.C. epic poem, The Odyssey, Homer observed: “a guest never forgets a host who has treated him kindly”. It is possible that as guests who have been treated kindly in Morocco, the Dutch return home as hosts whose prejudices towards Moroccans in the Netherlands have been positively mediated.
That is, because of the important relation between tourism, immigration, prejudice, cultural diversity and integration, the Moroccan minstry of tourism should work together with other ministries, especially the ministry of immigration. It is unfortunate that tourism in Morocco has not yet evolved from destination selling and promotion, to destination branding, and nation branding. Again, the irony is that Moroccan nationals abroad, in a period of less than 60 years, are set to mirror “justly or unjustly” the Moroccan people and a culture of thousands of years. And it is this mirror and the seriousness of this irony that deserve more attention in the study and “doing” of tourism.
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