Peace Through Tourism: Critical Reflections on the Intersections between Peace, Justice and Sustainable Development

Peace through Tourism explores the potential of tourism to contribute to conflict resolution and promote peace. It examines the intersections between tourism, peace, justice, and sustainability through conceptual and empirical works, arguing that peace through tourism is dialogic and requires a complex and critical approach. The book highlights the pedagogies of peace and explores structural violence associated with tourism, such as the dominance of neoliberal market imperatives and the role of tourism in post-conflict settings. It encourages scholars, industry, and communities to build shared tourism futures where peace is understood as peace with justice and differences are bridged through dialogues.

Format: Hardback
Length: 438 pages
Publication date: 26 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

Peace through Tourism explores the potential of tourism to contribute to conflict resolution and peace-building efforts. This edited volume examines the intersections between tourism, peace, justice, and sustainability through conceptual and empirical studies that explore practices, challenges, and opportunities across the globe. It presents a complex and critical perspective, arguing that peace through tourism is a dialogical process rather than a simple description of specific "good" niche segments.

The pedagogies of peace presented in this book aim to analyze the structural violence associated with tourism, such as the dominance of neoliberal market imperatives over local or social economies, colonizing, patriarchal, and anthropocentric practices in tourism, and the complex role of tourism in post-conflict settings. The analyses presented here bring scholars, industry professionals, and communities together to discuss the creation of shared tourism futures where peace is understood as peace with justice and differences are bridged through dialogues aimed at understanding.

In the context of the many challenges facing sustainable development in the 21st century, this volume serves as an important and timely endeavor. It explores radical practices that support more just tourism futures, recognizing the need for transformative change in the industry. With a new introduction, this book provides valuable insights for scholars and researchers in the fields of Tourism and Peace and Conflict Studies. The chapters in this book were originally published in the Journal of Sustainable Tourism.

Weight: 993g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781032290140