Tourism and Geopolitics

Tourism and Geopolitics is a unique and important resource that discusses the relationship between tourism and geopolitics, with a focus on experience from Central and Eastern Europe. Fully integrated with clear coherence, the book is divided in to four major, interrelated elements: reconfiguring reality and conceptions; peripheries; identity; and linkage. The book starts out by assessing the changing nature of 'geopolitics', evolving from pejorative associations with Nazi Germany and Imperial Japan to the more recent 'critical geopolitics' of social science's 'cultural turn'. By scrutinising the relationships between geopolitics and tourism within the region, the text looks at the important historical role of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) in geopolitical thinking. Finally the inclusion of empirical cases demonstrates contemporary relationships between tourism and geopolitics in the region.Edited by a renowned authority on tourism geopolitics the book also contains contributions from both established and new academic voices from CEE and beyond; within the fields of tourism, geography, political science.By demonstrating the interrelated nature of the topic as well as emphasizing the freshness of this research area, the key principles and ideas to emerge from the book are therefore widely applicable.