The reporting of wars, terror attacks and natural catastrophes has a strong influence on the image which tourists perceive of the threat to their personal security. This may cause a widespread refusal to travel into the specific area where a crisis
affected area to the whole region and promotes a growing tendency towards regionalisation of tourist demend. The paper asks if crises, wars and catastrophes are catalysts of a regionalisation of tourist demand. The paper asks if crises, wars
Result of 5 years living on the Thai-Burmese border. The A. witnesses the conflict between the Karen minority and the burmese troops. It shows the world's longest civil war (57 years) and gives an account of the ordinary people sufferings from
the war (atrocities, rapes). Functioning of refugee camps where NGO workers and foreign medias try to alleviate the sufferings of the internally displaced persons (IDP). - (GL)
as a result of the forced (mostly war-time) migrations during the periods 1944-48 and 1991-99. According to the latest census data, the ratio of the dominant nations of the states increased to 87%, parallel with a decreasing share of the minorities
. This process is a result of the war-time ethnic cleansings, large-scale migrations and assimilations. They show a tendancy towards ethnic-religious homogenisation - at the expense of the minorities. - (IfL)
Before World War II the Giant Mountains were one of the most popular tourist regions in Germany. Since mass tourism started, guides and maps have been produced. In the years 1800-1945 around 50 editors published over 100 tourist maps
of that mountain range. After World War II the output of German cartographic companies was forgotten. The article describes the development and different types of cartographic editing of that region and its golden age in the 1930s. - (IfL)