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International Tourism Development and the Gulf Cooperation Council States: Challenges and Opportunities (Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility) by Marcus L. Stephenson, Ala Al-Hamarneh is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.
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This book examines the challenges facing the development of tourism in the six member states of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC): Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates (UAE). This region, which largely comprises the Arabian Peninsula, possesses some of the fastest growing economies in the world and is remarkably unique. It shares similar associations and affinities: tribal histories, royal kinship, political associations, Bedu cultural roots, Islamic heritage, rapid urbanization, oil wealth, rentier dynamics, state capitalist structures, migrant labour, economic diversification policies and institutional restructuring. Therefore, this volume takes the study of tourism away from its normative unit of analysis, where tourism in the region is being examined within the context of the Middle East and the wider Islamic and Arab world, towards an enquiry focusing on a specific geo-political territory and socially defined region. Although international tourism development in the region embodies a range of challenges, complexities and conflicts, which are deeply contextualized in this volume, the approach overall does not endorse the normative ‘Gulf bashi
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- Author
- Marcus L. Stephenson, Ala Al-Hamarneh
- Publisher
- Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
- Published
- 2017
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781317690870
- Category
- nonfiction
- Subjects
- Travel, Science, Anthropology
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