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.

Citation

Causevic, S., & Lynch, P. (2011). Phoenix Tourism: Post-Conflict Tourism Role. Annals of Tourism Research, 38(3), 780-800. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.annals.2010.12.004

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 10, 2010
• Online Publication Date: Feb 9, 2011
• Publication Date: 2011-07
• Deposit Date: Jan 8, 2014
• Journal: Annals of Tourism Research
• Print ISSN: 0160-7383
• Publisher: Elsevier
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 38
• Issue: 3
• 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