Forced Displacement: The ‘Refugee Crisis’ and Its Impact on Global Tourism

Date
2023-09-24
Authors
Bazrafshan, Shima
Cockburn-Wootten, Cheryl
McIntosh, Alison Jane
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Routledge
Abstract

Over the last decade, the number of people forcibly displaced from their homes fleeing from war, persecution, and violence has nearly doubled, from 41 million in 2010 to 82.4 million in 2020, among them 26.4 million are refugees under international protection. Inevitably, the number of forcibly displaced people will increase in the future. Amid these global concerns, there has been a rise in the number of tourism scholars investigating the impact of refugees on tourism. To date, much of this work has excluded the involvement of refugee voices and experiences in the research processes. More worryingly, this type of orientation adopts an ‘add refugees and stir’ approach and perpetuates a conventional view of refugees as ‘outsiders’ and ‘issue-generating’ to the host country. To counter this approach, this chapter will advocate theoretical and practical contributions that shift our orientation for the more inclusive study with, rather than only on, refugees, and take a proactive approach to examining the trend of forced displacement and global tourism.

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3508 Tourism , 35 Commerce, Management, Tourism and Services , 3504 Commercial Services , 3506 Marketing , 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
Source
Bazrafshan, S., Cockburn-Wootten, C. & McIntosh, A. (2023). Forced displacement: The ‘refugee crisis’ and its impact on global tourism. In Morrison, A. & Buhalis, D. Routledge handbook of trends and issues in global tourism, London: Routledge (chapter 28).
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