Re-envisioning community-based heritage tourism in the old city of Nazareth

Gelbman, Alon; Laven, Daniel

doi:10.1080/1743873x.2015.1044993

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“…This said, in-depth interviews were the focus of our data set. Other studies looking at hostels in the region have used similar methodological approaches (Gelbman & Laven, 2016;Stenvall et al, 2017). Document analysis was undertaken initially through a comprehensive internet search for material relating to the hostel.…”

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“…For example, Gelbman (2019) demonstrated how a running race between Bethlehem and Jerusalem, organised by Israelis, Palestinians and Italians, helped promote the seldom-heard narrative of hope and reconciliation during the eight years it operated. Gelbman and Laven (2016) examined the Fauzi Azar Inn, a successful backpacker's guesthouse in the formerly deserted Old City of Nazareth (Israel). It was established by a surprising partnership between a Jewish social entrepreneur and a local Palestinian family.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…This study interrogates the example of a Palestinian hostel to see how, as a tourism space, it tries to challenge some of the existing dominant narratives that characterise the Israeli-Palestinian space. Previous research suggests that hostels may be catalytic spaces for disrupting the hegemony of the current discourses that exist in the region (Gelbman & Laven, 2016;Stenvall et al, 2017). What has been overlooked however is why hostels make suitable spaces for challenging master narratives of space in Israel-Palestine, and beyond?…”

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“…Hostel guests also tend to spend more time in the local community, building relationships with fellow travellers, local providers and people (Scheyvens, 2002). In all, hostels represent intimate spaces which promote forms of fleeting fraternity, maximising the potential for debate, friendship forming and ergo, the chance of seeing and knowing the Other (Gelbman & Laven, 2016).…”

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Providing counter-narratives: the positive role of hostels in the Israeli-Palestinian context

Shepherd

Laven

2019

Tourism Geographies

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Previous research suggests that tourism has a role to play in challenging the destructive dominant narratives of the Israeli-Palestinian contextdiscourses that traditionally have, and still do, revolve around sectarianism, Othering and violence. Our case study focuses on a hostel in the Palestinian city of Ramallah that boldly attempts to challenge the way tourists view the Israeli-Palestinian context and Palestine as a tourism destination. We examine how the hostel attempts to achieve this and the ways in which being a hostel (as opposed to a hotel) helps its guests with this reframing through in-depth qualitative interviews conducted on-site with members of the hostel management and staff, and through participant observation conducted by the researchers in Ramallah. Findings shed light on the hostel's ability to enable Israelis and Palestinians to cooperate within tourism, and how Palestine has much more to offer tourists than conflict-related tourism, thus challenging the master narratives of the region which have suggested quite the contrary. A key finding is the hostel's ongoing attempt to remove ignorance about the situation in the region and promote fact-based learning. The results also suggest that the very characteristics of a hostel assist in achieving this mission through the intimate interactions that are inherent in a hostel setting. Hostels can, therefore, be part of a wider approach to ensuring tourism is used to promote alternative, positive narratives of contested space, as opposed to promoting division and externalising the conflict, as is so often the case.

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Laven

2019

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“…Okazaki (2008) points out that CBT is a measure to gradually empower the locals to actively take part in community development initiatives. CBT is widely implemented in numerous localities in Asia (Pawson, D'Arcy and Richardson 2017) and is known for its positive contributions on local living conditions, as well as addressing local social problems (Gelbman and Laven 2016). As indicated in the study conducted by Park et al (2016), locals have positive attitudes to tourism due to the success of CBT in improving different aspects of local well-being, which also enhances the sense of local pride (Pawson, D'Arcy and Richardson 2017).…”

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Gastronomic experience as a community development driver: the study of Amphawa Floating Market as community-based culinary tourism destination

Lunchaprasith¹

2017

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This paper investigates the connection between culinary tourism and community development through a case study of Amphawa Floating Market, a touristic evening market in Samutsongkram, Thailand, that has been developed in an economically depressed historic trade community. It aims to examine the role of gastronomic experiences offered in the market as a means of improving the well-being of local residents, and critically discuss the potential for the market to become a viable community-based culinary tourism destination. The research involved a number of field trips to Amphawa Floating Market during 2012-2014, during which venue observation was undertaken and semi-structured interviews conducted with local stakeholders, including members of the management unit, food traders and visitors. The paper reveals that gastronomic experiences in which the locals actively take part in the construction and promotion, have positive economic, social and cultural impacts on Amphawa District. Nevertheless, the commodification of food as a tourism offering has negative impacts on the host community and can, to an extent, threaten the quality of experiences, and these shortcomings need to be addressed to assure the long-term commercial viability of the attraction. The research found that Amphawa Floating Market could benefit from the significance of food as a primary tourist experience, the quality of locally-available culinary resources, the strong embeddedness of food in the context of domestic leisure, and the emerging significance of food in the promotional strategy of Thai tourism. Nevertheless, factors that impede the market's positioning as gastronomic attraction should be addressed.

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Conflict and Stability: The Potential of Heritage Tourism in Promoting Peace and Reconciliation

Timothy

2023

Heritage and Cultural Heritage Tourism

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Re-envisioning community-based heritage tourism in the old city of Nazareth

Cited by 13 publications

References 51 publications

Providing counter-narratives: the positive role of hostels in the Israeli-Palestinian context

Providing counter-narratives: the positive role of hostels in the Israeli-Palestinian context

Gastronomic experience as a community development driver: the study of Amphawa Floating Market as community-based culinary tourism destination

Conflict and Stability: The Potential of Heritage Tourism in Promoting Peace and Reconciliation

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