About the Book
The Routledge Handbook of Borders and Tourism examines the multiple and diverse relationships between global tourism and political boundaries. With contributions from international, leading thinkers, this book offers theoretical frameworks for understanding borders and tourism and empirical examples from borderlands throughout the world.
This handbook provides comprehensive overview of historical and contemporary thinking about evolving national frontiers and tourism. Tourism, by definition, entails people crossing borders of various scales and is manifested in a wide range of conceptualizations of human mobility. Borders significantly influence tourism and determine how the industry grows, is managed, and manifests on the ground. Simultaneously, tourism strongly affects borders, border laws, border policies, and international relations. This book highlights the traditional relationships between borders and tourism, including borders as attractions, barriers, transit spaces, and determiners of tourism landscapes. It offers deeper insights into current thinking about space and place, mobilities, globalization, citizenship, conflict and peace, trans-frontier cooperation, geopolitics, "otherness" and here versus there, the heritagization of borders and memory-making, biodiversity, and bordering, debordering, and rebordering processes.
Offering an unparalleled interdisciplinary glimpse at political boundaries and tourism, this handbook will be an essential resource for all students and researchers of tourism, geopolitics and border studies, geography, anthropology, sociology, history, international relations, and global studies.
Table of Contents:
Chapter 1 Understanding Borders and Tourism: Complex Relationships and Evolving Patterns
Part 1: Past and present perspectives on borders, tourism and mobility
Chapter 2 Travellers’ Tales: How Human Stories Portray ‘Elsewhere’
Chapter 3 Borderlands and Commensality
Chapter 4 New Borders and Mobility in the Age of Globalization: De-bordering, Re-bordering and Beyond
Chapter 5 Aurea Mediocritas: Cross-border Cooperation between Materiality and Relationality
Chapter 6 Tourism, Citizenship and Border Governance: Past Dynamics and New Reconfigurations
Chapter 7 How Space, Borders and Boundaries Shape Biodiversity Values
Part 2: Borders, Barriers, Access and (Im)mobilities
Chapter 8 Migration and Borders
Chapter 9 Physical Access and Perceived Constraints: Borders as Barriers to Travel Mobilities and Tourism Development
Chapter 10 Enclave Tourism: Bounded Spaces and Social Exclusion
Chapter 11 Globalization, Mobility and Border Restrictions: Tourism Perspectives
Chapter 12 Military Occupations and Tourism
Chapter 13 Cultural Boundaries and Ethnic Representation in Cross-border Tourism Destinations
Part 3: The Anomalous Border Landscape: Tourism Values and Assets
Chapter 14 Borderlines: Linear Tourist Attractions in Liminal Space
Chapter 15 Borders of Conflict as Tourist Attractions
Chapter 16 Borders as Dark Tourism Spaces
Chapter 17 Borders, heritage and memory
Chapter 18 Tour Guiding in Contested Geopolitical Borderlands: Narratives and Approaches
Chapter 19 Tourists’ Performances at Border Landmarks in the Era of Social Media
Part 4: The Competitive Advantage of the Border
Chapter 20 Outshopping Abroad: Cross-border Shopping Tourism and the Competitive Advantage of Borders
Chapter 21 Borders and Healthcare: Medical Mobility, Globalization and Borderlands Tourism
Chapter 22 Crossing Borders and Border Crossings: Sex, Tourism and Travelling in the Sensual Spaces of Borderlands
Chapter 23 Transboundary Second-home Tourism
Chapter 24 Merchants, Smugglers and Wanglers: Non-conventional Tourism and Trade across Political borders
Part 5: Contemporary Change: Transfrontier Cooperation and Collaboration
Chapter 25 Planning and Managing Tourism in Transborder Areas
Chapter 26 Cross-border Tourism Initiatives in the European Union
Chapter 27 Tourism in Protected Areas and Transboundary Parks for Peace
Chapter 28 Transfrontier Routes and Trails: Cooperation and Scalar Considerations
Chapter 29 Tourism Clusters Management in Cross-Border Destinations: Blind Spots and Invisible Lines
Chapter 30 Tourism and Political Borders: Past-present Dynamics and the Age of Globalization
About the Author :
Dallen J. Timothy is Professor of Community Resources and Development at Arizona State University and Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Julie Anne Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. He is also Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa; Visiting Professor at Hunan Normal University, Guangxi University, and Luoyang Normal University, China; and Guest Professor in the Erasmus Mundus European Master in Tourism Management programme based at the University of Girona, Spain. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Heritage Tourism and currently serves on the editorial boards of 24 international journals. He is commissioning or co-commissioning editor for four book series with Routledge and other publishers. He has ongoing research projects in North America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa on topics related to borders and tourism, religious tourism, heritage, and community empowerment.
Alon Gelbman is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Tourism and Hotel Management at Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel. He is a cultural geographer and his research interests include international tourism and geopolitical borders, tourism and peace, urban/rural tourism, and host–guest relationships. His research papers have been published in leading academic journals, and he has conducted empirical field studies, developed theories, presented frequently at international conferences, taught, and received invitations regularly to speak at conferences and seminars abroad. A major thrust of his research in the tourism area is developing a theoretical foundation for tourism–geopolitical border relations between countries around the world and developing global models and theories about it, with significant connections to the topic of tourism and peace.
