Richard Butler - Tourism and War

Tourism and War

This is the first volume to explore fully the complex relationship between war and tourism by considering its full range of dynamics; including political, psychological, economic and ideological factors at different levels, in different political and geographical locations. Issues of peace and tourism are dealt with insofar as they pertain to the effects of war on tourism that emerge after the cessation of hostilities. The book therefore reveals how not only location, but also political strategies, accidents of history, transportation linkages and economic expediency all have played their role in the development and continuation of tourism before, during, and after wartime. It further shows how the effects of war are seldom if ever simply a negation or reversal of the effects of peace on tourism.

The volume draws on a range of examples, from medieval times to the present, to reveal the multi-faceted development of tourism amidst and because of conflict in a wide variety of locations, including the Pacific, Europe, the Middle East, North America, Africa and South East Asia, showing the diverse ways in which tourism and war interacts. In doing so it explores how some locations have been developed as tourist attractions primarily because of war and conflict, e.g. as resting and training places for troops, and others flourished because of the threat of danger from conflicts to more traditional tourist locations.

This thought provoking volume contributes to the understanding of the interrelationships between war, peace and tourism in many different parts of the world at different scales. It will be valuable reading for all those interested in this topic as well as dark tourism, battlefield tourism and heritage tourism.

Richard Butler is Emeritus Professor at in the Strathclyde Business School of Strathclyde University, Glasgow, Scotland.

Wantanee Suntikul is Assistant Professor in Tourism Planning and Development at the Institute for Tourism Studies in Macao, China.

Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility

Series Editor: C. Michael Hall,

Professor at the Department of Management,

College of Business and Economics, University of Canterbury, Christchurch, New Zealand

The aim of this series is to explore and communicate the intersections and relationships between leisure, tourism and human mobility within the social sciences.

It will incorporate both traditional and new perspectives on leisure and tourism from contemporary geography, e.g. notions of identity, representation and culture, while also providing for perspectives from cognate areas such as anthropology, cultural studies, gastronomy and food studies, marketing, policy studies and political economy, regional and urban planning, and sociology, within the development of an integrated field of leisure and tourism studies.

Also, increasingly, tourism and leisure are regarded as steps in a continuum of human mobility. Inclusion of mobility in the series offers the prospect to examine the relationship between tourism and migration, the sojourner, educational travel, and second home and retirement travel phenomena.

The series comprises two strands:

Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility aims to address the needs of students and academics, and the titles will be published in hardback and paperback. Titles include:

1 The Moralisation of Tourism

Sun, sand and saving the world?

Jim Butcher

2 The Ethics of Tourism Development

Mick Smith and Rosaleen Duffy

3 Tourism in the Caribbean

Trends, development, prospects

Edited by David Timothy Duval

4 Qualitative Research in Tourism

Ontologies, epistemologies and methodologies

Edited by Jenny Phillimore and Lisa Goodson

5 The Media and the Tourist Imagination

Converging cultures

Edited by David Crouch, Rhona Jackson and Felix Thompson

6 Tourism and Global Environmental Change

Ecological, social, economic and political interrelationships

Edited by Stefan Gssling and C. Michael Hall

7 Cultural Heritage of Tourism in the Developing World

Edited by Dallen J. Timothy and Gyan Nyaupane

8 Understanding and Managing Tourism Impacts

An integrated approach

C. Michael Hall and Alan Lew

9 An Introduction to Visual Research Methods in Tourism

Edited by Tijana Rakic and Donna Chambers

10 Tourism and Climate Change

Impacts, adaptation and mitigation

C. Michael Hall, Stefan Gssling and Daniel Scott

Routledge Studies in Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility is a forum for innovative new research intended for research students and academics, and the titles will be available in hardback only. Titles include:

1 Living with Tourism

Negotiating identities in a Turkish village

Hazel Tucker

2 Tourism, Diasporas and Space

Edited by Tim Coles and Dallen J. Timothy

3 Tourism and Postcolonialism

Contested discourses, identities and representations

Edited by C. Michael Hall and Hazel Tucker

4 Tourism, Religion and Spiritual Journeys

Edited by Dallen J. Timothy and Daniel H. Olsen

5 Chinas Outbound Tourism

Wolfgang Georg Arlt

6 Tourism, Power and Space

Edited by Andrew Church and Tim Coles

7 Tourism, Ethnic Diversity and the City

Edited by Jan Rath

8 Ecotourism, NGOs and Development

A critical analysis

Jim Butcher

9 Tourism and the Consumption of Wildlife

Hunting, shooting and sport fishing

Edited by Brent Lovelock

10 Tourism, Creativity and Development

Edited by Greg Richards and Julie Wilson

11 Tourism at the Grassroots

Villagers and visitors in the Asia-Pacific

Edited by John Connell and Barbara Rugendyke

12 Tourism and Innovation

Michael Hall and Allan Williams

13 World Tourism Cities

Developing tourism off the beaten track

Edited by Robert Maitland and Peter Newman

14 Tourism and National Parks

International perspectives on development, histories and change

Edited by Warwick Frost and C. Michael Hall

15 Tourism, Performance and the Everyday

Consuming the Orient

Michael Haldrup and Jonas Larsen

16 Tourism and Change in Polar Regions

Climate, environments and experiences

Edited by C. Michael Hall and Jarkko Saarinen

17 Fieldwork in Tourism

Methods, issues and reflections

Edited by C. Michael Hall

18 Tourism and India

A critical introduction

Kevin Hannam and Anya Diekmann

19 Political Economy of Tourism

A critical perspective

Edited by Jan Mosedale

20 Volunteer Tourism

Theoretical frameworks and practical applications

Edited by Angela Benson

21 The Study of Tourism

Past trends and future directions

Richard Sharpley

22 Childrens and Families Holiday Experience

Neil Carr

23 Tourism and National Identity

An international perspective

Edited by Elspeth Frew and Leanne White

24 Tourism and Agriculture

New geographies of consumption, production and rural restructuring

Edited by Rebecca Torres and Janet Momsen

25 Tourism in China

Policy and development since 1949