Sanctions, Tourism, and Resilience
Adaptation and Survival
Ali Hosseini author Siamak Seyfi author Rasoul Afsari author
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
Publishing:22nd Jan '26
£52.99
This title is due to be published on 22nd January, and will be despatched as soon as possible.
This timely and significant book examines how sanctions reshape the landscape of global tourism and how destinations subjected to these measures respond to isolation, economic strain, and stigma. Tourism is often imagined as a borderless industry, yet it remains deeply shaped by international politics. Sanctions expose this reality by disrupting flows of visitors, capital, and knowledge, forcing destinations to rethink their survival within a constrained global order.
The book investigates the strategies through which sanctioned destinations endure, adapt, and sometimes transform, highlighting the coping mechanisms, innovations, and long-term adjustments that enable them to sustain functionality and competitiveness within the global tourism market. By centering resilience, the book shifts the narrative from the impacts of sanctions to the responses and solutions, offering a novel perspective on how tourism systems operate under geopolitical constraints. This is supported with a wide range of comparative case studies of countries with long-standing and recent sanctions experiences with diverse experiences of sanctions.
This significant volume is of interest to policy makers, practitioners, destination management and marketing organizations, and students of crisis and politics who seek to understand how tourism endures amid geopolitical tension, and how resilience itself becomes a space of creativity, negotiation, and survival.
"Sanctions have become one of the most significant means of political diplomacy in recent years. This book provides a powerful reminder of the effects of sanctions on tourism and the resilience of those affected by them. The book usefully brings together different literatures and cases and makes an extremely welcome contribution to the literature from the perspectives of a range of different actors"
-Professor C. Michael Hall, Massey University Albany, New Zealand.
"Sanctions significantly shape global tourism by restricting mobility, altering destination image, and influencing investment flows. In an era of geopolitical uncertainty, understanding sanctions’ impact on tourism diplomacy and economic resilience is vital. This book offers timely insights, providing scholars and practitioners with critical tools to navigate compliance, mitigate risks, and sustain tourism in politically sensitive environments"
-Professor Marina Novelli, Director of the STTAR Centre/Nottingham University Business School, UK & Chair of the World Committee on Tourism Ethics.
"As sanctions, tariffs and trade wars disrupt global travel like never before, tourism research has paid scant attention to the topic. This timely book addresses that gap through clear case studies that show how sanctioned countries adapt, survive and sometimes find new ways to encourage tourism. A must-read for anyone who wants to understand the impact of geopolitics on tourism"
-Dr Stephen Pratt, University of Central Florida, USA.
"Tourism is deeply political. Some countries use it for propaganda, whereas others attempt to withhold it as a way of exacting retribution through state sanctions. This book provides a sound assessment of the geopolitical relations between tourism and sanctions. This cutting-edge volume conveys deep knowledge about human (im)mobility, crisis management, and resilience in the face of the warranted or unwarranted geopolitical actions of others. A must-read for anyone interested in the politics of tourism"
-Professor Dallen J. Timothy, Arizona State University, USA.
ISBN: 9781041102878
Dimensions: unknown
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86 pages