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Explaining the Arab Middle East Tourism Paradox

2006· article· en· W2351681423 on OpenAlex
Waleed Hazbun

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venuePublished in a venue whose home country is Canada.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
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Bibliographic record

VenueArab world geographer · 2006
Typearticle
Languageen
FieldSocial Sciences
TopicDiverse Aspects of Tourism Research
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsMiddle EastTourismVulnerability (computing)PoliticsPolitical instabilityEconomyPolitical scienceDevelopment economicsPolitical economyEconomic geographyGeographyEconomicsLaw

Abstract

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This essay investigates the seeming paradox of the rapid expansion of tourism flows across the Arab Middle East in the wake of 9/11, the series of attacks against tourists in the region, and ongoing regional instability caused by the Iraq war. In doing so, it challenges many commonly held views about the vulnerability of tourism economies—especially in the Middle East, with its negative external image—to violence in nearby locations and political instability. The essay explains how the expansion of Middle East tourism since 9/11 has been driven by a range of factors, including increased petrodollars, new patterns of regional travel and consumer tastes, shifting business and tourism development strategies, and the extraordinary success of tourism development in Dubai.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.001
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesScience and technology studies, Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: none
Teacher disagreement score0.763
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0010.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.002
Science and technology studies0.0020.001
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0010.000
Research integrity0.0000.000
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0030.001

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.034
GPT teacher head0.284
Teacher spread0.250 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it