Phoenix tourism: Post-Conflict Tourism Role

Causevic, Senija; Lynch, Paul

Abstract

This paper explores the processes affecting tourism development following a
major political conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina (B&H). The adopted critical theory analytical
approach resulted in the identification of phoenix tourism, conceptualised as a distinctive
period in post-conflict tourism development. Instead of locating tourism in the context of
economic enhancement, tourism is located in the context of social renewal of the destination
and its people. Although post-conflict tourism is usually conceptualised under dark tourism
scholarship, phoenix tourism is not proposed as a type of tourism, but as a role given to tourism
in a process through which conflict issues develop into a new heritage. Keywords: phoenix
tourism, dark tourism, emancipatory knowledge, post-conflict context. �

Citation

Causevic, S., & Lynch, P. (2011). Phoenix tourism: Post-Conflict Tourism Role. Annals of Tourism Research, 38, 780-800. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2010.12.004

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Publication Date: 2011
• Deposit Date: Jan 8, 2014
• Print ISSN: 0160-7383
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 38
• Pages: 780-800
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2010.12.004
• Keywords: Tourism; phoenix tourism; post-conflict context; social renewal; dark tourism; emancipatory knowledge
• Public URL: http://researchrepository.napier.ac.uk/id/eprint/6544
• Publisher URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2010.12.004