Routledge Handbook of Borders and Tourism

The Routledge Handbook of Borders and Tourism explores the complex relationships between global tourism and political boundaries,providing theoretical frameworks and empirical examples from borderlands worldwide. It highlights the traditional and contemporary roles of borders in shaping tourism,and the impact of tourism on borders,border laws,policies,and international relations.

Format: Hardback
Length: 424 pages
Publication date: 13 December 2022
Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd

The Routledge Handbook of Borders and Tourism delves into the intricate and multifaceted connections between global tourism and political boundaries. Drawing upon the expertise of esteemed international scholars, this comprehensive book offers theoretical frameworks and empirical examples from borderlands across the globe.

This handbook provides a comprehensive exploration of historical and contemporary perspectives on the evolving nature of national frontiers and tourism. Tourism, by its very nature, involves the crossing of various borders, encompassing a diverse range of conceptualizations of human mobility. Borders play a pivotal role in shaping tourism, influencing its growth, management, and manifestation on the ground. At the same time, tourism exerts a significant impact on borders, shaping border laws, policies, and international relations.

This book highlights the traditional relationships between borders and tourism, including borders as attractions, barriers, transit spaces, and determinants of tourism landscapes. It delves deeper into current thinking about space, place, mobility, globalization, citizenship, conflict, peace, trans-frontier cooperation, geopolitics, otherness, and the dynamics of here versus there. It also explores the heritagization of borders and memory-making, biodiversity, and bordering, debordering, and rebordering processes.

Offering an unparalleled interdisciplinary perspective on political boundaries and tourism, this handbook serves as an indispensable resource for students and researchers in the fields of tourism, geopolitics, border studies, geography, anthropology, sociology, history, international relations, and global studies. It sheds light on the complex interplay between borders and tourism, providing valuable insights into the evolving dynamics of our world.

Weight: 979g
Dimension: 246 x 174 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780367482770