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Deutschland - Polen - Osteuropa

Author : Dieter Bingen
Publisher : Otto Harrassowitz Verlag
ISBN 13 : 9783447046275
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (462 download)

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Download or read book Deutschland - Polen - Osteuropa written by Dieter Bingen and published by Otto Harrassowitz Verlag. This book was released on 2002 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Integration der ostmitteleuropaischen Staaten in die Europaische Union konnte nach verbreiteten Befurchtungen eine neue Teilung Europas entlang der polnischen Ostgrenze hervorrufen, die weder im deutschen noch im polnischen Interesse lage. Auch nach den Vorstellungen der Europaischen Union sollte keine neue Eiszeit in den Beziehungen zwischen Polen und seinen ostlichen Nachbarn anbrechen. Dabei kommt Polen und Deutschland aufgrund ihrer geographischen und politischen Lage eine Schlusselrolle bei der Schaffung einer gesamteuropaischen Architektur zu. Auf der Grundlage gegenseitiger Kenntnisnahme der jeweiligen wissenschaftlichen Kompetenz diskutierten fuhrende deutsche und polnische Osteuropaexperten in Darmstadt (2000) uber die Grundlagen fur eine gemeinsame EU-Ostpolitik und stellten in Brussel (2001) vor einem grosseren europaischen Kreis (=EU) ihre Uberlegungen zur Diskussion.Aus dem Inhalt: Innere Entwicklung und aussenpolitische Orientierungen: Russland, die Ukraine und Belarus seit 1990Die russische Enklave Kaliningrad im Kontext regionaler Kooperation Gemeinsamkeiten und Unterschiede der deutschen und polnischen Osteuropaforschung und -politik - Stereotype - Vorurteile - WahrnehmungenHenri Menudier uber Frankreich, Deutschland und die Ostpoliti

Germany and East-Central Europe

Author : Steve Wood
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1351157426
Total Pages : 269 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (511 download)

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Download or read book Germany and East-Central Europe written by Steve Wood and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-11-28 with total page 269 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This innovative volume analyzes historical, strategic and domestic political influences on the character and dynamics of the European Union's eastern enlargement. Its main focus is on interactions between Germany, Poland, the Czech Republic and Hungary, in political-diplomatic, commercial-economic and socio-cultural fields. The book also examines the wider European and international contexts to show that as enlargement advanced, we also witnessed an increase in the potential for conflict among EU members, old and new. Steve Wood provides an eclectic and topical appraisal, which identifies the German state as the crucial actor in both the enlargement venture and parallel processes of bilateral reconciliation. The book is recommended to those with interests in contemporary Germany, Central and Eastern Europe, and European integration.

Comparative Media Systems

Author : Bogusława Dobek-Ostrowska
Publisher : Central European University Press
ISBN 13 : 6155211892
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (552 download)

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Book Synopsis Comparative Media Systems by : Bogusława Dobek-Ostrowska

Download or read book Comparative Media Systems written by Bogusława Dobek-Ostrowska and published by Central European University Press. This book was released on 2010-01-10 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Leading researchers from different regions of Europe and the United States address five major interrelated themes: 1) how ideological and normative constructs gave way to empirical systematic comparative work in media research; 2) the role of foreign media groups in post-communist regions and the effects of ownership in terms of impacts on media freedom; 3) the various dimensions of the relationship between mass media and political systems in a comparative perspective; 4) professionalization of journalism in different political cultures—autonomy of journalists, professional norms and practices, political instrumentalization and the commercialization of the media; 5) the role of state intervention in media systems

The German Minority in Interwar Poland

Author : Winson Chu
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110855640X
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (85 download)

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Download or read book The German Minority in Interwar Poland written by Winson Chu and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-06-25 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The German Minority in Interwar Poland analyzes what happened when Germans from three different empires - the Russian, Habsburg and German - were forced to live together in one new state. After the First World War, German national activists made regional distinctions among these Germans and German-speakers in Poland, with preference initially for those who had once lived in the German Empire. Rather than becoming more cohesive over time, Poland's ethnic Germans remained divided and did not unite within a single representative organization. Polish repressive policies and unequal subsidies from the German state exacerbated these differences, while National Socialism created new hierarchies and unleashed bitter intra-ethnic conflict among German minority leaders. Winson Chu challenges prevailing interpretations that German nationalism in the twentieth century viewed 'Germans' as a single homogeneous group of people. His revealing study shows that nationalist agitation could divide as well as unite an embattled ethnicity.

Mäander des Kulturtransfers

Author : Aleksandra Chylewska-Tölle, Christian Heidrich
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH
ISBN 13 : 3832536604
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

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Download or read book Mäander des Kulturtransfers written by Aleksandra Chylewska-Tölle, Christian Heidrich and published by Logos Verlag Berlin GmbH. This book was released on 2014 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Der vorliegende Band hat zum Ziel, die religiös-kulturellen Dimensionen des Transfers zwischen der katholischen Kirche in Polen und in Deutschland einer kritischen Prüfung zu unterziehen und dabei über die tradierten Grenzen des deutsch-polnischen Dialogs hinauszugehen. In der Geschichte des Zusammenlebens von polnischen und deutschen Katholiken bestätigt sich die These, dass die in ihren Anschauungen und Traditionen verschiedenen Völker eben nicht nur nebeneinander, sondern auch miteinander gelebt haben. Während sich frühere Untersuchungen vor allem auf das konzentrierten, was die deutschen und polnischen Katholiken trennte, beschäftigen sich neuere wissenschaftliche Abhandlungen - auch die Beiträge in diesem Band - eher mit Interaktion und Kooperation. Der vorliegende Band ist in fünf unterschiedliche Kulturtransferprozesse widerspiegelnde Schwerpunkte gegliedert, wobei verschiedene Transfervariationen hier vielfältig überlappen und ineinanderfließen. Analysiert werden die sich auf den Kontrast zwischen Selbst- und Fremdbild beziehenden und konfessionell "gefärbten" Identifikationsmöglichkeiten, die Wirkung von Personen in der Rolle der Kulturvermittler, kulturelle Verflechtungen und Blockierungen kultureller Elemente bei verschiedenen Gruppen (von Jugendlichen oder Frauen über Vertriebenenverbände bis zu Theologen), transnationale Beispiele der Kooperation im kirchlichen Bereich sowie Beispiele der kulturellen Transferprozesse auf dem Gebiet der Literatur und des Zeitungswesens.

Orphans Of Versailles

Author : Richard Blanke
Publisher : University Press of Kentucky
ISBN 13 : 0813187826
Total Pages : 477 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book Orphans Of Versailles written by Richard Blanke and published by University Press of Kentucky. This book was released on 2021-11-21 with total page 477 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The lands Germany ceded to Poland after World War I included more than one million ethnic Germans for whom the change meant a sharp reversal of roles. The Polish government now confronted a German minority in a region where power relationships had been the other way around for more than a century. Orphans of Versailles examines the complex psychological and political situation of Germans consigned to Poland, their treatment by the Polish government and society, their diverse strategies for survival, their place in international relations, and the impact of National Socialism. Not a one-sided study of victimization, this book treats the contributions of both the Polish state and the German minority to the conflict that culminated in their mutual destruction. Based largely on research in European archives, it sheds new light on a key aspect of German-Polish relations, one that was long overshadowed by concern over the German revanchist threat and the hostility that subsequently dominated the German-Polish relationship. Thanks to the new political situation in central Europe, however, this topic can finally be addressed evenhandedly.

The Art of Economic Persuasion

Author : Patricia A. Davis
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472027336
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Art of Economic Persuasion written by Patricia A. Davis and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2010-08-04 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Much has been written about a state's use of the threat of military force or economic sanctions to change the behavior of another state. Less is known about the use of positive measures such as economic assistance and investment as a means of influence. This study looks at the ways in which government officials use economic instruments for foreign policy gains. More specifically, it examines the means by which a government can enhance its efforts at economic persuasion by inducing domestic business trade and investing in the target nation. The author demonstrates the domestic conditions under which the state can use commercial economic incentives to achieve foreign policy goals, especially where these incentives are meant to induce cooperative behavior from another state. Using the process of German-Polish reconciliation in the 1970s and 1980s as a case study, The Art of Economic Persuasion, argues that complex institutional links between the German government and the German business community enabled the government to encourage commercial relations with Poland, which supported the government's policies. With singular access to archives of business associations in Germany as well as numerous interviews with German and Polish officials, the author carefully retraces German foreign policy towards Poland in the 1970s and 1980s. The Art of Economic Persuasion is a theoretical addition to the literature on international political economy and international relations. It will be of interest to specialists in international relations, foreign policy, and international political economy, as well as economists, political scientists, and historians of Germany, Poland, the United States, and Cold War relations. Patricia Davis is Assistant Professor of Government and International Studies, University of Notre Dame.

Rampart Nations

Author : Dr. Liliya Berezhnaya
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1789201489
Total Pages : 416 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (892 download)

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Download or read book Rampart Nations written by Dr. Liliya Berezhnaya and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2019-03-11 with total page 416 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The “bulwark” or antemurale myth—whereby a region is imagined as a defensive barrier against a dangerous Other—has been a persistent strand in the development of Eastern European nationalisms. While historical studies of the topic have typically focused on clashes and overlaps between sociocultural and religious formations, Rampart Nations delves deeper to uncover the mutual transfers and multi-sided national and interconfessional conflicts that helped to spread bulwark myths through Europe’s eastern periphery over several centuries. Ranging from art history to theology to political science, this volume offers new ways of understanding the political, social, and religious forces that continue to shape identity in Eastern Europe.

The Comparative International Politics of Democracy Promotion

Author : Jonas Wolff
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134509553
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book The Comparative International Politics of Democracy Promotion written by Jonas Wolff and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-11 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Though scholarly attention to democracy promotion is increasing, there is still little comparative and theoretically-based work on the protagonists of democracy promotion. This book investigates the motives that drive democracy promotion in a comparative and theoretically oriented manner, exploring how democracy promoters deal with conflicting objectives and the factors that shape their behaviour. It also addresses the more policy-oriented debate on the contemporary challenges to democracy promotion, focusing on US and German policies towards three kinds of challenges: the emergence of ‘radical’ leftist governments in Bolivia and Ecuador, the political rise of Islamist movements in Turkey and Pakistan, and the consolidation of (semi-)authoritarian rule in Belarus and Russia. In each case, North-Western democracy promoters have been confronted with serious conflicts of objectives between security, economic interests and democracy promotion. The analysis and comparison of such situations in which democracy promoters have to deal with competing objectives and make tough decisions provides powerful evidence as to the factors that shape democracy promotion. The Comparative International Politics of Democracy Promotion will be of interest to students and scholars of international relations, comparative politics, democratization studies and foreign policy.

The European Union, Russia and the Shared Neighbourhood

Author : Jackie Gower
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317985834
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (179 download)

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Download or read book The European Union, Russia and the Shared Neighbourhood written by Jackie Gower and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-09-13 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conflict in South Ossetia in the summer of 2008 and the Ukrainian energy crisis in early 2009 served to highlight the tensions that continue to influence EU-Russia relations in regard to the region comprising the former republics of the Soviet Union or the ‘shared neighbourhood’. This book draws together research which examines the objectives of EU and Russian foreign policy and the complexities of the security challenges in this region. Although both actors have a shared interest in cooperating to create conditions of peace and stability, we have in recent years observed the development of growing competition between the EU and Russian foreign policy agendas. This book was based on a special issue of Europe-Asia Studies.

Germans from the East

Author : H.W. Schoenberg
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 9401032459
Total Pages : 383 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book Germans from the East written by H.W. Schoenberg and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 383 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Who, in 1945 and 1946, could have foreseen that the economic and social integration of the millions of Germans from the East expelled into West Germany after Wodd War II would largely be accomplished in a few years? And, who could have foreseen that many years after this accomplishment the political repercussions of the expulsions would go on? Yet, surprisingly enough, this is what has happened. In 1969, as usual, the major issues of the federal election campaign in West Germany hardly reflect any specific economic and social concerns of the expellees, not even those bruited about by the NPD (N ationaldemokratische Partei Deutschlands). At the same time, how ever, all the political parties vying in the campaign, with the exception of the newly founded, less influentialDKP (the new German Commu nist Party), pay considerable deference to the political interests of the expellees in the German question. Whether these interests represent the opinion of most of the expellees and whether the expellee associ ations in fact speak for many voters is another matter. Why are these questions rarely posed? Why, despite the economic and social integration of the expellees, do the East German Home land Provincial Societies - the Landsmannschaften - retain much influence? The explanation of this phenomenon becomes increasingly clear if one reads the intelligent and superbly documented analysis by Hans Schoenberg.

Culture, Space and Climate Change

Author : Thorsten Heimann
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429791607
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (297 download)

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Download or read book Culture, Space and Climate Change written by Thorsten Heimann and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-11-19 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ways of handling climate change vary worldwide. Differences can be observed in the perception of potential threats and opportunities as well as in the appraisal of adequate coping strategies. Collective efforts often fail not because of technical restrictions, but as a result of social and cultural differences between the actors involved. Consequently, there is a need to explore in greater depth those zones of cultural friction which emerge when actors deal with climate change. This book examines how cultural differences in the handling of climate change can be described and explained. The work develops the concept of culture as relational space, elaborates explanatory approaches, and investigates them by surveying more than 800 actors responsible for spatial development of the European coastal regions in the Netherlands, Germany, Denmark, and Poland. In doing so, this book engages with debates on cultural globalisation, in which the attachment of culture to place is increasingly being questioned. Adopting the approach of culture as relational space allows possible cultural formations to be examined across diverse fields of application from the local to the global scale. In addition, the book investigates how far different value orientations, beliefs, and identities can explain diverse perceptions of problems and opportunities right up to preferences for climate-mitigation and adaptation measures. Providing comprehensive insights into the diverse zones of cultural friction which scholars and practitioners face when handling climate change locally and globally, this book will be of great interest to those studying climate change, environmental sociology, and sustainable planning.

Media, Democracy and Freedom

Author : Marta Dyczok
Publisher : Peter Lang
ISBN 13 : 9783034303118
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Media, Democracy and Freedom written by Marta Dyczok and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2009 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book does what few other works have done: it examines the role media have played in the larger political, economic and social transformations in the post communist space. An international group of scholars from various disciplines explore the complex relations between media, society, and the state in this region over the past twenty years, and present theoretical arguments that challenge dominant views. They scrutinize changes in the public sphere as well as the media itself, its role, format, agenda and quality in the context of changing values and shifting power relationships.

Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule

Author : Rachel O'Sullivan
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350377244
Total Pages : 265 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Nazi Germany, Annexed Poland and Colonial Rule written by Rachel O'Sullivan and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-10-19 with total page 265 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines Nazi Germany's expansion, population management and establishment of a racially stratified society within the Reichsgaue (Reich Districts) of Wartheland and Danzig-West Prussia in annexed Poland (1939-1945) through a colonial lens. The topic of the Holocaust has thus far dominated the scholarly debate on the relevance of colonialism for our understanding of the Nazi regime. However, as opposed to solely concentrating on violence to investigate whether the Holocaust can be located within wider colonial frameworks, Rachel O'Sullivan utilizes a broader approach by investigating other aspects, such as discourses and fantasies related to expansion, settlement, 'civilising missions' and Germanisation, which were also intrinsic to Nazi Germany's rule in Poland. The resettlement of the ethnic Germans-individuals of German descent who lived in Eastern Europe until the outbreak of the Second World War-forms a main focal point for this study's analysis and investigation of colonial comparisons. The ethnic German resettlement in the Reichsgaue laid the foundations for the establishment and enforcement of German society and culture, while simultaneously intensifying the efforts to control Poles and remove Jews. Through this case study, O'Sullivan explores Nazi Germany's dual usage of inclusionary policies, which attempted to culturally and linguistically integrate ethnic Germans and certain Poles into German society, and the contrasting exclusionary policies, which sought to rid annexed Poland of 'undesirable' population groups through segregation, deportation and murder. The book compares these policies - and the tactics used to implement them - to colonial and settler colonial methods of assimilation, subjugation and violence.

National-Socialist Archaeology in Europe and its Legacies

Author : Martijn Eickhoff
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3031280245
Total Pages : 685 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (312 download)

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Download or read book National-Socialist Archaeology in Europe and its Legacies written by Martijn Eickhoff and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2023-08-14 with total page 685 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edited volume is dedicated to national-socialist archaeology as a Europe-wide phenomenon. It analyses national-socialist attempts to denationalize the archaeologies of European nations by creating a new unifying European archaeology on a racial basis. From the beginning of the nineteenth century, archaeology began to develop into an important force behind processes of nation building. At the same time, structures of transnational academic collaboration contributed strongly to the internal dynamics of the research field, which was primarily organized on a national basis. In those European countries that were confronted with national-socialist occupation and repression between 1939 and 1945, these transnational archaeological networks were to prove crucial for the development of national-socialist archaeological policies. This volume will reveal how national-socialist archaeology was to an extent valued positively in its time as highly innovative, even influencing the archaeology of non-occupied countries. Although in the final instance, it generally failed to displace the national archaeologies in Europe, the volume also analyses the long-term impact of national-socialist rule on the development of European archaeology. How did the attempts to create a unified European archaeology after 1945 continue to influence networks, methods and terminologies, institutional structures, or popular representations of the early past?

The Enemy in Contemporary Film

Author : Martin Löschnigg
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110590034
Total Pages : 417 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book The Enemy in Contemporary Film written by Martin Löschnigg and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2018-08-21 with total page 417 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Culture and conflict inevitably go hand in hand. The very idea of culture is marked by the notion of difference and by the creative, fraught interaction between conflicting concepts and values. The same can be said of all key ideas in the study of culture, such as identity and diversity, memory and trauma, the translation of cultures and globalization, dislocation and emplacement, mediation and exclusion. This series publishes theoretically informed original scholarship from the fields of literary and cultural studies as well as media, visual, and film studies. It fosters an interdisciplinary dialogue on the multiple ways in which conflict supports and constrains the production of meaning, on how conflict is represented, how it relates to the past and projects the present, and how it frames scholarship within the humanities. Editors: Isabel Capeloa Gil, Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon, Portugal; Paulo de Medeiros, University of Warwick, UK, Catherine Nesci, University of California, Santa Barbara, USA. Editorial Board: Arjun Appadurai, New York University, Claudia Benthien, Universität Hamburg, Elisabeth Bronfen, Universität Zürich, Bishnupriya Ghosh, University of California, Santa Barbara, Joyce Goggin, Universiteit van Amsterdam, Lawrence Grossberg, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Andreas Huyssen, Columbia University, Ansgar Nünning, Universität Gießen, Naomi Segal, University of London, Birkbeck College, Márcio Seligmann-Silva, Universidade Estadual de Campinas, António Sousa Ribeiro, Universidade de Coimbra, Roberto Vecchi, Universita di Bologna, Samuel Weber, Northwestern University, Liliane Weissberg, University of Pennsylvania, Christoph Wulf, FU Berlin, Longxi Zhang, City University of Hong Kong

Cross-Border Tourism in Protected Areas

Author : Marius Mayer
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030059618
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book Cross-Border Tourism in Protected Areas written by Marius Mayer and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-06 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book discusses how tourism between neighboring countries like Poland and Germany is hindered despite the Schengen Treaty. Taking protected areas in north-eastern Germany and north-western Poland as exemplary cases, it analyses the phenomenon of socio-economic and cultural barriers for cross-border tourism. It also presents the results of a representative online survey in both countries, and discusses socio-economic and geographical research on border areas, nature tourism in protected areas, national stereotypes and prejudices. As one of the very few source market studies on protected area tourism, it is relevant for scholars and practitioners (protected area managers, tourism professionals) alike providing them with insights into the implications for future research and tourism practice.