Tourism Planning and Development in the Middle East
Date Issued
2023
DOI
10.1079/9781789249149.0000
Abstract
Given the historical and cultural richness of countries in the Middle East region, as well
as the economic development many have exhibited in recent years, tourism planning
and development gains much significance for both scholars and practitioners.
Turbulence, conflicts and crises exhibited in the area add further dimensions that need
to be incorporated in tourism strategies and planning, and be taken into consideration
by experts at an institutional, corporate and educational level. Furthermore, in order
to effectively deal with aspects of sustainability, visions and strategies in the region
need to build upon good practices. As a result, a greater understanding is required of
the factors influencing decision-making on tourism matters as well as on the impacts
and implications of sustainable tourism development.
This book, written by an international team of experts, addresses the need to examine
tourism development and planning in the Middle East from a sustainability perspective
by embracing case studies and examples from the region. Through its collection of
chapters, the book considers tourism planning and development from the economic,
socio-cultural, environmental and regulatory perspectives of sustainability. Thus,
the book advances understandings of the positive and negative impacts of tourism
development as well as how turbulence, crisis, synergies and the top-down and
bottom-up approaches to tourism development are connected to different problems
and implications for local communities, the region and the relationship of the Middle
East with the rest of the world.
An essential resource for tourism practitioners, decision-makers in private and public
organisations, government bodies and consultants, not only from the Middle East, but
for all those who want an encompassing view of global tourism.
as the economic development many have exhibited in recent years, tourism planning
and development gains much significance for both scholars and practitioners.
Turbulence, conflicts and crises exhibited in the area add further dimensions that need
to be incorporated in tourism strategies and planning, and be taken into consideration
by experts at an institutional, corporate and educational level. Furthermore, in order
to effectively deal with aspects of sustainability, visions and strategies in the region
need to build upon good practices. As a result, a greater understanding is required of
the factors influencing decision-making on tourism matters as well as on the impacts
and implications of sustainable tourism development.
This book, written by an international team of experts, addresses the need to examine
tourism development and planning in the Middle East from a sustainability perspective
by embracing case studies and examples from the region. Through its collection of
chapters, the book considers tourism planning and development from the economic,
socio-cultural, environmental and regulatory perspectives of sustainability. Thus,
the book advances understandings of the positive and negative impacts of tourism
development as well as how turbulence, crisis, synergies and the top-down and
bottom-up approaches to tourism development are connected to different problems
and implications for local communities, the region and the relationship of the Middle
East with the rest of the world.
An essential resource for tourism practitioners, decision-makers in private and public
organisations, government bodies and consultants, not only from the Middle East, but
for all those who want an encompassing view of global tourism.