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Created vulnerabilities: political economy of tourism development in Sharm El Sheikh
Sharm El Sheikh represents the typical tourism enclave: removed from the local culture and environment, homogenous with other destinations in the global south, and designed to serve the vacationing needs of mass tourism. This form of tourism development is dated and set to fail, particularly when ch...
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| author | Walsh, Catherine Meaghan |
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| description | Sharm El Sheikh represents the typical tourism enclave: removed from the local culture and environment, homogenous with other destinations in the global south, and designed to serve the vacationing needs of mass tourism. This form of tourism development is dated and set to fail, particularly when challenged with political instability and violence. Literature on mass tourism to the global south focuses on structural dependency of resorts, but often fail to complicate this relationship with internal political decision making. This qualitative case study examines the development of the resort to cater to the desires of the mass tourism model. The socio-economic dependency of the space on the state and global tourism dynamics, the exclusion of the local population, and the complicated security crisis in the peninsula are analyzed as they remain significant challenges to future recovery of this resort. |
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| spelling | oai:fount.aucegypt.edu:etds-1802 Created vulnerabilities: political economy of tourism development in Sharm El Sheikh Walsh, Catherine Meaghan Sharm El Sheikh represents the typical tourism enclave: removed from the local culture and environment, homogenous with other destinations in the global south, and designed to serve the vacationing needs of mass tourism. This form of tourism development is dated and set to fail, particularly when challenged with political instability and violence. Literature on mass tourism to the global south focuses on structural dependency of resorts, but often fail to complicate this relationship with internal political decision making. This qualitative case study examines the development of the resort to cater to the desires of the mass tourism model. The socio-economic dependency of the space on the state and global tourism dynamics, the exclusion of the local population, and the complicated security crisis in the peninsula are analyzed as they remain significant challenges to future recovery of this resort. 2020-02-01T08:00:00Z thesis application/pdf https://fount.aucegypt.edu/etds/803 https://fount.aucegypt.edu/context/etds/article/1802/viewcontent/auto_convert.pdf The author retains all rights with regard to copyright. The author certifies that written permission from the owner(s) of third-party copyrighted matter included in the thesis, dissertation, paper, or record of study has been obtained. The author further certifies that IRB approval has been obtained for this thesis, or that IRB approval is not necessary for this thesis. Insofar as this thesis, dissertation, paper, or record of study is an educational record as defined in the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) (20 USC 1232g), the author has granted consent to disclosure of it to anyone who requests a copy. Theses and Dissertations AUC Knowledge Fountain political economy tourism development |
| spellingShingle | political economy tourism development Walsh, Catherine Meaghan Created vulnerabilities: political economy of tourism development in Sharm El Sheikh |
| title | Created vulnerabilities: political economy of tourism development in Sharm El Sheikh |
| title_full | Created vulnerabilities: political economy of tourism development in Sharm El Sheikh |
| title_fullStr | Created vulnerabilities: political economy of tourism development in Sharm El Sheikh |
| title_full_unstemmed | Created vulnerabilities: political economy of tourism development in Sharm El Sheikh |
| title_short | Created vulnerabilities: political economy of tourism development in Sharm El Sheikh |
| title_sort | created vulnerabilities political economy of tourism development in sharm el sheikh |
| topic | political economy tourism development |
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