Peace through Tourism

This insightful book explores how tourism can promote peace and understanding across cultures, highlighting its potential as a social force. Peace through Tourism offers critical perspectives from various experts.

The concept of peace through tourism suggests that tourism can play a significant role in fostering cross-cultural understanding, tolerance, and even peace among diverse communities and nations. However, there has been a notable lack of in-depth critique regarding the potential of tourism to serve as a catalyst for global peace. This book, Peace through Tourism, addresses this gap by offering a critical examination of tourism's role in promoting human rights, justice, and peace on a global scale.

Peace through Tourism presents a fresh perspective on the possibilities for achieving peace through tourism, emphasizing the importance of multi-disciplinary approaches. It invites readers to consider tourism within the frameworks of human rights, social justice, and ecological integrity. This approach not only highlights the complexities and differing opinions surrounding peace tourism but also advocates for a pedagogy centered on peace. The contributions come from a diverse array of scholars, NGOs, tourism professionals, and community members, all sharing a common interest in critically exploring the intersection of tourism and peace.

The book draws on a variety of geopolitical contexts, including the USA, India, Japan, Israel, Palestine, Kenya, the Koreas, Indonesia, East Timor, and Indigenous Australia. Written by leading academics, Peace through Tourism serves as an essential resource for students, researchers, and academics seeking a comprehensive critique of tourism's potential to contribute to global peace.