Tourism and Geopolitics: Issues and Concepts from Central and Eastern Europe

Аннотация

The main sections of the book pursue the overlapping and interrelated themes of reconfiguring conceptions and reality, where tourism is set within evaluations of traditional geopolitical issues; tourism and transnationalism, theorising and evaluating the (extra)territorial power exerted by tourism- and leisure-related transnational corporations; borderlands, notably examining the transformation of border areas and the tensions between dynamic, high-level (geo)political relations and local tourism-related cross-border quotidian activities; identity and image, exploring tourism’s post-communist and post-conflict contributions to changing local and national self-perceptions and overcoming the tensions of contested heritage; and mobilities, theorizing and exemplifying the tourism-related processes of human movement and their interactions.