Tourism and Geopolitics

Derek Hall has studied geography, anthropology and tourism for over 40 years, his experience includes: 1970 BA (Hons) 2i University of London (External): Geography with Social Anthropology 1970-4 Research Assistant, Department of Geography, Polytechnic of North London 1973 Postgraduate Diploma in Linguistics, University of Portsmouth 1974 Temporary Assistant Research Officer, Scottish Development Department, Edinburgh 1974-1995 Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Principal Lecturer, Reader, Geography and Tourism, Sunderland Polytechnic/University 1978 PhD University of London (External): Social and Political Geography 1978 British Council Young Scientist in India: Delhi School of Economics; Osmania University, Hyderabad; Centre for Social and Economic Research, Bangalore 1984 British Council funded researcher in Mongolia: University of Ulan Bataar 1986-91 Part-time tour leader for Regent Holidays in Europe and Asia 1995-2004 Head of Department, Tourism and Leisure Management, Scottish Agricultural College, Auchincruive, Ayrshire. 1998 Personal Chair in Regional Development External examiner at various levels and visiting professor/senior research fellow at a number of universities, including HAMK University of Applied Technology, Finland (1997-2012). Most recent role with Plymouth University.

Part I: Introduction and Overviews 1: Bringing geopolitics to tourism 2: Tourism and geopolitics: the political imaginary of territory, tourism and space 3: Tourism in the geopolitical construction of Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Part II: Reconfiguring Conceptions and Reality 4: The Adriatic as a (re-)emerging cultural space 5: Crimea: geopolitics and tourism 6: The geopolitical trial of tourism in modern Ukraine 7: Under pressure: the impact of Russian tourism investment in Montenegro Part III: Tourism and Transnationalism 8: Large-scale tourism development in a Czech rural area: contestation over the meaning of modernity 9: The expansion of international hotel groups into Central and Eastern Europe after 1989 – strategic couplings and local responses 10: Conceptualising trans-national hotel chain penetration in Bulgaria 11: New consumption spaces and cross-border mobilities Part IV: Borderlands 12: From divided to shared spaces: transborder tourism in the Polish-Czech borderlands 13: Finnish-Russian border mobility and tourism: localism overruled by geopolitics 14: Kaliningrad as a tourism enclave/exclave? 15: An evaluation of tourism development in Kaliningrad Part V: Identity and Image 16: Mutli-ethnic food in the mono-ethnic city: tourism, gastronomy and identity in central Warsaw 17: Rural tourism as a meeting ground in Bosnia and Herzegovina? 18: Interrogating tourism’s relevance: mediating between polarities in Kosovo 19: European Night of Museums and the geopolitics of events in Romania 20: The power of the Web: blogging destination image in Bucharest and Sofia Part VI: Mobilities 21: The role of pioneering tour companies 22: The geopolitics of low-cost carriers in Central and Eastern Europe 23: Tourism and a geopolitics of connectivity: the Albanian nexus 24: Heroes or ‘Others’? A geopolitics of international footballer mobility 25: Tourism, mobilities and the geopolitics of erasure Part VII: Conclusions 26: In conclusion