Dallen J. Timothy is Professor of Community Resources and Development at Arizona State University and Senior Sustainability Scientist at the Julie Anne Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. He is also Senior Research Associate at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa; Visiting Professor at Hunan Normal University, Guangxi University, and Luoyang Normal University, China; and Guest Professor in the Erasmus Mundus European Master in Tourism Management programme based at the University of Girona, Spain. He is the founding editor of the Journal of Heritage Tourism and currently serves on the editorial boards of 24 international journals. He is commissioning or co-commissioning editor for four book series with Routledge and other publishers. He has ongoing research projects in North America, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, and Africa on topics related to borders and tourism, religious tourism, heritage, and community empowerment.

Alon Gelbman is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Tourism and Hotel Management at Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee, Israel. He is a cultural geographer and his research interests include international tourism and geopolitical borders, tourism and peace, urban/rural tourism, and host-guest relationships. His research papers have been published in leading academic journals, and he has conducted empirical field studies, developed theories, presented frequently at international conferences, taught, and received invitations regularly to speak at conferences and seminars abroad. A major thrust of his research in the tourism area is developing a theoretical foundation for tourism-geopolitical border relations between countries around the world and developing global models and theories about it, with significant connections to the topic of tourism and peace.

Chapter 1 Understanding Borders and Tourism: Complex Relationships and Evolving Patterns

Part 1: Past and present perspectives on borders, tourism and mobility

Chapter 2 Travellers' Tales: How Human Stories Portray 'Elsewhere'

Chapter 3 Borderlands and Commensality

Chapter 4 New Borders and Mobility in the Age of Globalization: De-bordering, Re-bordering and Beyond

Chapter 5 Aurea Mediocritas: Cross-border Cooperation between Materiality and Relationality

Chapter 6 Tourism, Citizenship and Border Governance: Past Dynamics and New Reconfigurations

Chapter 7 How Space, Borders and Boundaries Shape Biodiversity Values

Part 2: Borders, Barriers, Access and (Im)mobilities

Chapter 8 Migration and Borders

Chapter 9 Physical Access and Perceived Constraints: Borders as Barriers to Travel Mobilities and Tourism Development

Chapter 10 Enclave Tourism: Bounded Spaces and Social Exclusion

Chapter 11 Globalization, Mobility and Border Restrictions: Tourism Perspectives

Chapter 12 Military Occupations and Tourism

Chapter 13 Cultural Boundaries and Ethnic Representation in Cross-border Tourism Destinations

Part 3: The Anomalous Border Landscape: Tourism Values and Assets

Chapter 14 Borderlines: Linear Tourist Attractions in Liminal Space

Chapter 15 Borders of Conflict as Tourist Attractions

Chapter 16 Borders as Dark Tourism Spaces

Chapter 17 Borders, heritage and memory

Chapter 18 Tour Guiding in Contested Geopolitical Borderlands: Narratives and Approaches

Chapter 19 Tourists' Performances at Border Landmarks in the Era of Social Media

Part 4: The Competitive Advantage of the Border

Chapter 20 Outshopping Abroad: Cross-border Shopping Tourism and the Competitive Advantage of Borders

Chapter 21 Borders and Healthcare: Medical Mobility, Globalization and Borderlands Tourism

Chapter 22 Crossing Borders and Border Crossings: Sex, Tourism and Travelling in the Sensual Spaces of Borderlands

Chapter 23 Transboundary Second-home Tourism

Chapter 24 Merchants, Smugglers and Wanglers: Non-conventional Tourism and Trade across Political borders

Part 5: Contemporary Change: Transfrontier Cooperation and Collaboration

Chapter 25 Planning and Managing Tourism in Transborder Areas

Chapter 26 Cross-border Tourism Initiatives in the European Union

Chapter 27 Tourism in Protected Areas and Transboundary Parks for Peace

Chapter 28 Transfrontier Routes and Trails: Cooperation and Scalar Considerations

Chapter 29 Tourism Clusters Management in Cross-Border Destinations: Blind Spots and Invisible Lines

Chapter 30 Tourism and Political Borders: Past-present Dynamics and the Age of Globalization