ABSTRACT
Despite the growing use of sanctions as a post-Cold War foreign policy instrument and its significance for travel flows and the tourism industry, there is surprisingly little research on sanctions in a tourism context. The review of existing studies shows that the research that has been undertaken from a tourism context has tended to focus on particular cases of sanctions and the associated impacts and response, while the societal effects of sanctions have been underrepresented. Furthermore, countries exposed to sanctions tend to be neither a main international tourism destination nor a major international tourism-generating market, although tourism is often a significant part of their economy. Against this backdrop, this chapter identifies the central themes on the relationship between sanctions and tourism and widely discusses the implications of such interrelationships.
