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29/06/2009

WORLD CONGRESS ON MIDDLE EASTERN STUDIES (WOCMES)

Barcelona, 19-24 July 2010 -

Panel on the Political Economy of New Tourism Mobilities in the MENA Region

Organisers:

Dr. Ala Al-Hamarneh – University of Mainz– Germany

a.al-hamarneh@geo.uni-mainz.de

Professor Kevin Hannam – University of Sunderland– UK

Kevin.hannam@sunderland.ac.uk

Dr Marcus Stephenson – Middlesex University Dubai - UAE

m.stephenson@mdx.ac

Call for Papers

The journal Mobilities states that contemporary “mobilities encompasse both the large-scale movements of people, objects, capital, and information across the world, as well as more local processes of daily transportation, movement through public space, and the travel of material things within everyday life. Recent developments in transportation and communications infrastructures, along with new social and cultural practices of mobility have elicited a number of new research initiatives for understanding the connections between these diverse mobilities.”

In the last ten years new trends and dynamics of tourism mobilities in the MENA region have been noticed: the boom of intra-regional tourisms, the dramatic increase in intra-regional FDI in tourism services, neo-liberal urban restructuring of tourism places and spaces, the establishment of various new intraregional transportation infrastructure and so on. While numerous trends have been driven by decisions taken at the political level, others express growing profit-oriented investments strategies. For example Libyan investments in Tunisia and Egypt are seen as a result of the new political orientation of the country.

Beyond investments, the visa-issuing policies and the establishment of new transportation infrastructures reflect new tourism regulatory frameworks that need to be examined. For example, on the one hand, Iranians cannot travel to Egypt and Jordan due to visa restrictions, but they are more than welcome in the UAE, Syria and Iraq. Turkey and Lebanon have established a no-visa regime for visitors from GCC countries and Jordan.

Furthermore, new developments in communications have also elicited new intraregional connections between both migrants and tourists within and outside the MENA region. Such connections are, of course, emphatically gendered as well as structured by different ethnic backgrounds and shared heritages. These heritages bring to the fore the material nature of many tourism mobilities in terms of the movement of everyday things that become important to sustain the political economy of tourism.

This panel thus aims to discuss from a political economy perspective the various new tourism mobilities in the MENA region and seeks submissions that take up the above dimensions in order to explore the diverse economic, communicational, material and migrational experiences of tourism mobilities. To participate please send a short abstract of 300 words by email to one of the organizer(s) by the 15th October 2009. All abstracts will be refereed.

25/06/2009

3rd International Conference on Mediterranean Studies

Athens, Greece, 31 March-3 April 2010

For further information see the conference website:

Deadline to submit: 5th of October 2009.

22/06/2009

"British Society for Middle Eastern Studies Graduate Conference"

Exeter, UK, 03-04 September 2009

Fifth annual gathering of graduate students in Middle Eastern Studies to be held at the Institute for Arab and Islamic Studies, University of Exeter.

Papers accepted from all disciplines. Keynote speaker: Professor Carole Hillenbrand.

For further information, contact the conference team at brismes2009@ex.ac.uk; or visit:

17/06/2009

"Tourism, Religion & Culture: Regional Development through Meaningful Tourism Experiences"

First announcement on a new upcoming International Conference and Call for Papers.

To be held 27th -30th October 2009 in LECCE, ITALY

The conference is organized by the University of Salento (Lecce) in cooperation with:

• University of Bologna, Italy,

• University of Haifa, Israel,

• University of Munich, Germany and

• ATLAS

For further details about the Conference, please visit the conference website at

15/06/2009

Tourism, Culture and Territorial Development: Strategies to Develop Local & Regional Tourism

31st August - 5th September 2009

2009 International Summer School in Geography of Tourism

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