This book examines the many relationships between tourism and geopolitics, with a focus on experiences drawn from Central and Eastern Europe. The main sections of the book pursue the overlapping and interrelated themes of: (1) reconfiguring conceptions and reality, where tourism is set within evaluations of traditional geopolitical issues; (2) tourism and transnationalism, theorizing and evaluating the (extra)territorial power exerted by tourism- and leisure-related transnational corporations; (3) borderlands, notably examining the transformation of border areas and the tensions between dynamic, high-level (geo)political relations and local tourism-related cross-border quotidian activities; (4) identity and image, exploring tourism's post-communist and post-conflict contributions to changing local and national self-perceptions and to overcoming the tensions of contested heritage; and (5) mobilities, theorising and exemplifying the tourism-related processes of human movement and their interactions. The book has 26 chapters and a subject index.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Bringing Geopolitics to Tourism / Derek Hall -- Tourism and Geopolitics: The Political Imaginary of Territory, Tourism and Space / C. Michael Hall -- Tourism in the Geopolitical Construction of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) / Derek Hall -- The Adriatic as a (Re-)Emerging Cultural Space / Peter Jordan -- Crimea: Geopolitics and Tourism / John Berryman -- The Geopolitical Trial of Tourism in Modern Ukraine / Pavlo Doan and Viktoriia Kiptenko -- Under Pressure: The Impact of Russian Tourism Investment in Montenegro / Antonio Violante -- Large-scale Tourism Development in a Czech Rural Area: Contestation over the Meaning of Modernity / Hana Hor�akov�a -- The Expansion of International Hotel Groups into Central and Eastern Europe After 1989: Strategic Couplings and Local Responses / Piotr Niewiadomski -- Conceptualising Transnational Hotel Chain Penetration in Bulgaria / Stanislav Ivanov and Maya Ivanova -- New Consumption Spaces and Cross-border Mobilities / Erika Nag -- From Divided to Shared Spaces: Transborder Tourism in the Polish-Czech Borderlands / Sylwia Dolzblasz -- Finnish-Russian Border Mobility and Tourism: Localism Overruled by Geopolitics / Jussi Laine -- Kaliningrad as a Tourism Enclave/Exclave? / Alexander Sebentsov and Maria Zotova -- An Evaluation of Tourism Development in Kaliningrad / Elena Kropinova -- Multi-ethnic Food in the Mono-ethnic City: Tourism, Gastronomy and Identity in Central Warsaw / Marta Derek -- Rural Tourism as a Meeting Ground in Bosnia and Herzegovina? / Rahman Nurkovi�c and Derek Hall -- Interrogating Tourism's Relevance: Mediating Between Polarities in Kosovo / Derek Hall and Frances Brown -- European Night of Museums and the Geopolitics of Events in Romania / Daniela Dumbr�aveanu, Anca Tudoricu and Ana Cr�aciun -- The Power of the Web: Blogging Destination Image in Bucharest and Sofia / Alexandru Gavri�s and Ioan Iano�s -- The Role of Pioneering Tour Companies / Neil Taylor -- The Geopolitics of Low-cost Carriers in Central and Eastern Europe / Edyta Pijet-Migo�n -- Tourism and a Geopolitics of Connectivity: The Albanian Nexus / Derek Hall -- Heroes or "Others"? A Geopolitics of International Footballer Mobility / Piotr Trzepacz and Derek Hall -- Tourism, Mobilities and the Geopolitics of Erasure / Kevin Hannam -- In Conclusion / Derek Hall.

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