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- Publisher
- Taylor & Francis
- Copyright
- Copyright Taylor & Francis Group, LLC
- ISSN
- 1747-7654
- eISSN
- 1476-6825
- DOI
- 10.1080/14766825.2013.797987
- Publisher site
- See Article on Publisher Site
Abstract
This case study of Israeli tourism discourse during a time of heightened violent conflict compares official state discourse, which situates tourism in Israel as safe and the country's status as ‘normal’, with material–symbolic interceptions of individuals and occurrences. I locate an intra/intercultural dialectic of ‘normalcy’ used to signify several paradoxical meanings, to achieve and preserve security of being, and to strategically situate an ‘interpretive mismatch’ for ideological and economic intercultural consumption. I also reflexively examine the complicit and resistant roles of foreign media press trips in co-constructing state tourism promotion strategies, in part looking at my own role as a journalist as echoer of strategic intercultural regimes of truth and filterer of interceptions.
Journal
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change – Taylor & Francis
Published: Jun 1, 2013
Keywords: construction (of place); representations; identity; discourse; conflict; Israel; press trip