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Successive governments in post-colonial Tunisia have sought to develop mass tourism as an avenue for social and economic development. Political instability and increasing media coverage have more recently led to a dramatic reduction in foreign tourist arrivals. Tunisia provides insights into the intersections of modernity, mass tourism, authoritarianism and terrorism, and in a world marred by terrorist attacks it becomes increasingly important to analyse the specific contexts from which these emerge. This chapter aims to address some of these issues by evaluating mass tourism development in Tunisia, highlighting the social and economic advances Tunisia has achieved, before analysing the situation since the Jasmine revolution of 2011. In order to fully analyse mass tourism in Tunisia, we draw on our own experience, which includes over 30 years of research in Tunisia, and fieldwork carried out shortly after the March 2015 Bardo Museum attack in the capital city Tunis. Finally, the chapter looks towards the future of mass tourism in Tunisia, arguing that while mass tourism has delivered positive advances, if it is to continue to do so the industry must be diversified and adapted to meet new needs.

Jeffrey H, Bleasdale S (2017) 'Tunisia : mass tourism in crisis?', in Harrison D, Sharpley R (ed(s).). Mass tourism in a small world: CABI p. 191.

This handbook encourages dialogue and reflexivity on human relationships and emotions in academic environments. Fifteen vignettes inspired by real stories are presented. These narratives explore the light and shade of how love, friendship, eroticism, power, sexism, harassment and gendered academic identities and cultures shape our daily working lives. This intervention tool has been designed to be used in workshops, seminars and other forms of academic gatherings. It can also be used and shared freely for information and inspiration among individual academics, in mentoring programs and as an input for competence development of academic leaders and managers. The document includes reflexive questions, a workshop pedagogy and a thematic list of recommended resources.

Abstract:
The purpose of this study was to examine the role of social distance, prior expectations, and trip experience on post-trip attitudes in multiple destinations. This study is based on surveys conducted with two groups of students: 1) a group participating in a summer study abroad program to the South Pacific or to Europe, and 2) a control group.  The results show that attitude changes were positive towards Europeans, negative towards Australians, and mixed towards Fijians.  This study supports the expectation value theory, but contradicts the cultural distance theory of attitude change.  Further, the results show that experience with non-tourism related services played an important role toward attitude change.

The purpose of this study was to examine the role of social distance, prior expectations, and trip experience on post-trip attitudes in multiple destinations. This study is based on surveys conducted with two groups of students: 1) a group participating in a summer study abroad program to the South Pacific or to Europe, and 2) a control group. The results show
that attitude changes were positive towards Europeans, negative towards Australians, and mixed towards Fijians. This study supports the expectation value theory, but contradicts the cultural distance theory of attitude change. Further, the results show that experience with non-tourism related services played an important role toward attitude change.

This study examines the role of motivations, prior travel experience, social ties and destination choice in pre-trip attitude formation. The sample for this study is composed of a group of university students
who recently participated in study abroad programs to the South Pacifi c or Europe. The results revealed that academic motivations and social ties influence students’ destination selection for the study aboard program. Social motivation emerged as the most important factor that influences attitude toward the destinations prior to the trip. Further analysis found that the destination intended to visit mediates the
effect of social motivation on pre-trip attitude formation.

The purpose of this study was to examine motivations of college students’ participation in study
abroad programs. The study is based on surveys conducted with a group of university students
who participated in a study abroad program to either the South Pacific (Australia, New Zealand,
and Fiji) or Europe (Austria and the Netherlands). The study results suggested four motivation
domains: international travel, escape, social, and academic. Of the four motivational dimensions,
the strongest was international travel, followed by academic, social, and escape. The implications
of the findings to the student travel industry and study abroad programs are discussed.