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What is Post-War Tourism

Chapter 7
Role and Impact of Tourism in Peacebuilding and Conflict Transformation
Starts is at the end of the war that is marked by tourists’ numbers beginning to rebound towards the pre-war period as there is a growing number of adventure tourists, family members of missing servicemen, and opportunists infiltrating the war zone.
Published in Chapter:
Post-War Tourism in the Reconciliation Process of New Zealand Vietnam War Veterans
Maria Dorsey (University of Otago, USA)
Copyright: © 2021 |Pages: 27
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-7998-5053-3.ch007
Abstract
Tourism has the potential to act as a positive force in reconciliation efforts between countries. The basis of tourism in facilitating reconciliation is premised on people coming into contact with one another in non-adversarial settings, which support a higher probability that positive effects can result from this contact. The investigation on post-war tourism and its role in moving the reconciliation process forward has been limited. Since the Vietnam War ended, there has been a growing phenomenon of Vietnam War veterans returning to visit Vietnam. This chapter examines the impact of New Zealand Vietnam veterans' visits to post-war Vietnam on the reconciliation process with the Vietnamese and with self.
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