This chapter focuses on tradition and its relationship to tourism. It looks at how tradition is portrayed in 'Not in front of the Tourists', a British TV documentary on Turkey, as highly vulnerable to international capital. 'Authentic' traditional life is replaced by commerce and commoditization,...

This chapter aims to: (i) explore the experience of sexual harassment as perceived by female tour guides and identify its key sources (i.e. tourists, tour leaders, local service providers); (ii) examine the influence of sexual harassment on tour guides' wellbeing and their quality of work life; and ...

This chapter tries to assess the severity of expected climate change impacts on tourism at the Turquoise Coast (Turkey) and build up an adaptation agenda for the concerned parties. First, sea level rise projections are considered to understand the degree of exposure at the immediate coastal zone. A ...

Based on conversations with Soğanli doll-maker women in Turkey, this chapter intends to bring into view a longitudinal, generational focus on women and tourism contexts. Generations of Soğanli women have now been involved in tourism and doll-making in the hope that the income from selling the dolls ...

Drawing on the theme of gender equality in tourism, this book aims to identify the main obstacles to women's advancement in the tourism industry, and to discover and share successful strategies to overcome them, drawing on case studies from all over the world. Interlaced between the 12 chapters of...

This chapter discusses the concept of halal tourism and presents the case of Turkey as a halal tourism destination. The chapter identifies the fundamentals of halal and halal tourism. It also discusses how we can plan for the development of halal tourism, looking at the consumption side and the...

This chapter investigates the role of environmental education for a sustainable tourism horizon, with an application to Turkey. The chapter explores how educational institutions help to conform to an environmental attachment in students, as a way of introducing and enlarging the presence of...

This chapter examines Turkish hoteliers' gaze at Russian tourists visiting the south coast of Turkey. The gaze of the owners, managers and employees of all-inclusive resorts and hotels in the holiday districts of Antalya is analysed. The reasons for the specific host gaze are explained by focusing...

The expansion of tourism into new geographic and cultural frontiers has highlighted the importance of visitor satisfaction and safety. This chapter provides a review of the literature on tourist harassment, a relatively neglected area of study. The first section briefly examines the nature of...

This chapter assesses the impact of terrorism on tourism in the USA and other countries (Greece, Italy, the UK, Israel, Egypt, Turkey) by use of the Seemingly Unrelated Regression (SUR) model. Results indicate that: (1) incidents of terrorism exert an effect on the tourism sector for each of the...