Chapter 11. Tourism and Power Relations in Jordan: Contested Discourses and Semiotic Shifts

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgements x
5. The Contributors xi
6. Abbreviations xiv
7. Chapter 1. Reconceptualizing Tourism in the Middle East: Place, Heritage, Mobility and Competitiveness 1
8. Chapter 2. A Historiography of Tourism in Cairo: A Spatial Perspective 70
9. Chapter 3. From One Globalization to Another: In Search of the Seeds of Modern Tourism in the Levant, a Western Perspective 95
10. Chapter 4. Digital Spatial Representations: New Communication Processes and ‘Middle Eastern’ UNESCO World Heritage Sites Online 111
11. Chapter 5. Visitors, Visions and Veils: The Portrayal of the Arab World in Tourism Advertising 137
12. Chapter 6. The ‘Islamic’ City and Tourism: Managing Conservation and Tourism in Traditional Neighbourhoods 161
13. Chapter 7. Development of Community-based Tourism in Oman: Challenges and Opportunities 188
14. Chapter 8. From Hajj to Hedonism? Paradoxes of Developing Tourism in Saudi Arabia 215
15. Chapter 9. Touristic Development in Sinai, Egypt: Bedouin, Visitors, and Government Interaction 237
16. Chapter 10. Tourism, Heritage, and Urban Transformations in Jordan and Lebanon: Emerging Actors and Global-Local Juxtapositions 263
17. Chapter 11. Tourism and Power Relations in Jordan: Contested Discourses and Semiotic Shifts 308