Siamak Seyfi

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.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of sanctions and boycotts in tourism and the economic and ethical complexities that policy makers, tourists, tourism destinations, and businesses face.Sanctions and boycotts are an important feature of the global tourism system and the emerging ethics of tourism. Sanctions and embargoes are increasingly used as coercive instruments of diplomacy and foreign policy by the United Nations, supranational organizations, the US, and other nations to change the actions and behaviors of countries, organizations, businesses, and individuals. At the same time, boycotts and buycotts are a growing feature of political consumerism and interest group activism. Tourism and hospitality destinations, attractions, and businesses can be profoundly affected by this, with the legacy of a negative image lasting for decades. International travel to some destinations may be severely restricted, financial investment and supply chains disrupted, and, in the most comprehensive sanctions and boycotts, substantial economic and personal hardship may be experienced.This book is of interest not only to policy makers, destination management and marketing organizations, and students of crisis and politics in tourism and hospitality but also those who seek to address the interrelationships between sanctions, tourism destinations and attractions, and the tourists who boycott them.

This is the first book to provide a comprehensive account of sanctions and boycotts in tourism and the economic and ethical complexities that policy makers, tourists, tourism destinations, and businesses face.Sanctions and boycotts are an important feature of the global tourism system and the emerging ethics of tourism. Sanctions and embargoes are increasingly used as coercive instruments of diplomacy and foreign policy by the United Nations, supranational organizations, the US, and other nations to change the actions and behaviors of countries, organizations, businesses, and individuals. At the same time, boycotts and buycotts are a growing feature of political consumerism and interest group activism. Tourism and hospitality destinations, attractions, and businesses can be profoundly affected by this, with the legacy of a negative image lasting for decades. International travel to some destinations may be severely restricted, financial investment and supply chains disrupted, and, in the most comprehensive sanctions and boycotts, substantial economic and personal hardship may be experienced.This book is of interest not only to policy makers, destination management and marketing organizations, and students of crisis and politics in tourism and hospitality but also those who seek to address the interrelationships between sanctions, tourism destinations and attractions, and the tourists who boycott them.