ABSTRACT

Tourism is a complex set of practices with social, cultural, economic, political and geographical dimensions, and with far-reaching effects and dependencies on many other aspects of human endeavour. This same description can be applied to war. This volume has aimed at making a contribution to understanding the wide range of different effects and scenarios that emerge from the intersection of these two complex areas of interface between people and cultures. While tourism and war may seem to be at opposite ends of the spectrum of types of interaction between peoples and nations, the preceding chapters have demonstrated historical and contemporary examples of the ways in which these two phenomena co-exist, co-define one another and, in some cases, even have a relationship of co-dependency.