Journal of Tourism HistoryPub Date : 2025-03-17eCollection Date: 2025-01-01DOI: 10.1080/1755182X.2025.2474508
Orçun Can Okan
{"title":"Guiding differently for travelling like them: the Egyptian-Ottoman publicist Safa and his 1913 Arabic guidebook to the late Ottoman capital.","authors":"Orçun Can Okan","doi":"10.1080/1755182X.2025.2474508","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1755182X.2025.2474508","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>This article examines an Arabic guidebook on the late Ottoman capital (present-day Istanbul), published in 1913 with the title <i>Guide to Asitana</i> [<i>Dalil al-Asitana</i>]. A rich textual and visual narrative on the city as the capital of a caliphate, the guidebook's author was Muhammad Safa who fled to Ottoman Turkey from Egypt under British control in the 1890s and sought to navigate a publishing career in a vast political space across and beyond the eastern Mediterranean by the early 1910s. Written for the Arabic-reading public(s) of this multilingual space, Safa's <i>Dalil</i> illuminates travel and tourism as experienced and promoted in a particular late Ottoman context after the Balkan Wars. Given the complexity of motives that shaped it, the guidebook defies reduction to a work of propaganda for a colonial empire or a nation-state emerging in 'the Middle East'. Analysing its content helps to interpret travel and tourism in the early twentieth century with due attention to particular contexts of significance for vocabularies of empire and categories such as the colonial and the national. This helps to formulate historical analyses of tourism that transcend national and regional frameworks as well as limits of comparison and contrast with 'the West'.</p>","PeriodicalId":42854,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tourism History","volume":"17 1","pages":"2-23"},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2025-03-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11970031/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143796728","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A contentious empire: Pan Am, Intercontinental, and Hotel Phoenicia in Beirut","authors":"Dylan Baun","doi":"10.1080/1755182x.2024.2341052","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1755182x.2024.2341052","url":null,"abstract":"Greenlit in 1956, opened in 1961, Hotel Phoenicia in Beirut marked the arrival of the United States to the Lebanese hotel industry. Most telling, it was the first Middle East holding of the U.S-own...","PeriodicalId":42854,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tourism History","volume":"31 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141529336","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Tourism and the making of the modern Middle East","authors":"Waleed Hazbun","doi":"10.1080/1755182x.2024.2356821","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1755182x.2024.2356821","url":null,"abstract":"Since its inception the Journal of Tourism History has sought to expand the interdisciplinary field of tourism history to include scholarship from and about regions such as the Middle East. This sp...","PeriodicalId":42854,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tourism History","volume":"32 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141529335","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Climate travels: how ecotourism changes mindsets and motivates action","authors":"Henry Knight Lozano","doi":"10.1080/1755182x.2024.2354982","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1755182x.2024.2354982","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Journal of Tourism History (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":42854,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tourism History","volume":"157 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-05-27","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141506327","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Open your eyes onto these unexploited treasures’ – The Société d’Encouragement au Tourisme and the making of a Lebanese nation in the 1930s","authors":"Janina S. Santer","doi":"10.1080/1755182x.2024.2331497","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1755182x.2024.2331497","url":null,"abstract":"This article is an historical study of tourism development in mandate era Lebanon (1920–1943). Based on organisational papers as well as governmental and contemporary press records, it examines the...","PeriodicalId":42854,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tourism History","volume":"77 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-04-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140561243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Motor travel in Mozambique in the late 1920s and conquering space: reading Rufino’s photographic albums","authors":"João Sarmento","doi":"10.1080/1755182x.2024.2316600","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1755182x.2024.2316600","url":null,"abstract":"The rise of the automobile played a significant role in the transformation of how we see and experience landscapes. Likewise, motor cars were key to defining the shape of twentieth-century tourism....","PeriodicalId":42854,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tourism History","volume":"186 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139903083","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Looking forward via historic travel and looking back via heritage tourism: an analysis of roads, mobility and imagination of place along the Tōkaidō Road in Edo Period, Japan","authors":"David J. Telfer, Atsuko Hashimoto","doi":"10.1080/1755182x.2023.2283430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1755182x.2023.2283430","url":null,"abstract":"The Tōkaidō Road was the legendary highway constructed during the Edo period (1603–1868) in Japan connecting Edo, the home of the shogun, to Kyoto, the home of the emperor. Along the route were 53 ...","PeriodicalId":42854,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tourism History","volume":"26 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139903065","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The wages of luxury: Sardinia’s Costa Smeralda resort as iconic brand and political symbol (1960–1975)","authors":"Dario Gaggio","doi":"10.1080/1755182x.2024.2309398","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1755182x.2024.2309398","url":null,"abstract":"The 1960s in Italy saw an explosion in mass tourism but also the development of contested forms of luxury tourism. This article deals with the building of one of the most iconic luxury resorts of t...","PeriodicalId":42854,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tourism History","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-02-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139770423","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"‘Scenery’ and the origins of heritage preservation in New Zealand and Australia","authors":"Kynan Gentry","doi":"10.1080/1755182x.2023.2288257","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1755182x.2023.2288257","url":null,"abstract":"In explaining the modern rise of interest in historic sites and their preservation, tourism has typically been seen as a lesser influence, or worse, as a corrupting influence on the ‘real’ role of ...","PeriodicalId":42854,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tourism History","volume":"69 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139585181","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Guides of the Atlas: an Ethnography of publicness, transnational cooperation and mountain tourism in Morocco","authors":"Stacy E. Holden","doi":"10.1080/1755182x.2024.2306690","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1755182x.2024.2306690","url":null,"abstract":"Published in Journal of Tourism History (Ahead of Print, 2024)","PeriodicalId":42854,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tourism History","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.2,"publicationDate":"2024-01-25","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139585458","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}