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The LGBTQ+ (lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and questioning) community is warmly embraced by the city of Tel Aviv. This phenomenon is exemplified by the fact that the Tel Aviv City Hall has been taking a leading part in the organization, financing, and promotion of Pride parades and events in recent years. The present article analyzes a quantitative survey of overseas participants in the 2016 Pride events in Tel Aviv. It explores the motivations, attitudes, satisfaction, and behaviors of tourists, both LGBTQ+ and non- LGBTQ+. The results show that Tel Aviv is perceived as gay friendly by all participants, regardless of their affiliation with the LGBTQ+ community. We discuss the advantages of being a gay-friendly city via high visibility and social inclusion. Finally, we address 'pinkwashing', an umbrella term employed to describe the efforts by Israeli authorities to promote a positive image of Israel despite its questioned geopolitical reputation.

Introduction : walking : more than pedestrian / C. Michael Hall, Yael Ram & Noam Shoval -- Walking in the capitalist city : on the socio-economic origins of walkable urbanism / Anja Hälg Bieri -- Radical twenty-first century walkers and the romantic qualities of leisure walking / Phil Smith -- Long-distance walking in films : promises of healing and redemption on the trail / Warwick Frost & Jennifer Laing -- Walking as pedagogy / Karein K. Goertz -- Walking in Germany : between recreation and ideology / Dirk Reiser & Vanessa Jansen-Meinen -- Walking and art : perambulating pleasures / Ray Boland & Bryan Wheeler -- Dog walking as a leisure activity / Yoshitaka Iwasaki -- Walking in Switzerland : urban and not so leisurely / Derek P.T.H. Christie, Emmanuel Ravalet & Vincent Kaufmann -- Purposeful leisure mobilities : reframing the walk to school / Debbie Hopkins & Sandra Mandic -- Spiking : the quest for challenge and meaning among hikers / Ron McCarville & Chantel Pilon -- On the beaten track : how do narratives from organised hiking differ from "real" hiking narratives? / Outi Rantala & Seija Tuulentie -- Comparisons between hikers and non-hikers in Iceland : attitudes, behaviours and perceptions / Anna Dóra Saeþórsdóttir, C. Michael Hall & Þorkell Stefánsson -- Passeggiata nuova : social travel in the era of the smartphone / Andrew Mondschein -- Walking online : a netnography of China's emerging hiking communities / Alexandra Witte & Kevin Hannam -- Hiking trails and pilgrimage routes -- Hut-to-hut-hiking trails : a comparative analysis of popular hiking destinations / Sven Gross & Kim Werner -- Taking you home : the Masar Ibrahim al-Khalil in Palestine / Rami Isaac -- The Wales Coast Path : the world's first national coastal footpath / Stephen Miles -- Improving the experience quality of hiking trails : a setting-experience-relationship approach / Diana Müller, Heinz-Dieter Quack, Kathrin Schumacher, Franziska Thiele -- Hikers preferences and dmo strategies : contrasting perspectives and conflicting views? / Ingeborg M. Nordbø -- Re-signifying smuggling : cross-border walking trails as a tourist experience in the Spanish-Portuguese border / Heriberto Cairo & María Lois -- The solo-hike : a journey of distance and closeness / Hannelene Schilar -- Walking to care : pilgrimage as slow tourism development Kumano-kodo pilgrimage, Wakayama, Japan / Kumi Kato -- Hindu pilgrimage in India and walkability : theory and praxis / Subhajit Das & Manirul Islam --

This book offers a comprehensive global examination of the relationship between public transport and tourism. It offers a unique analysis of the transport experience and shows how the public transport system, the tourism industry and the environment all benefit when public transport is widely used by tourists

The premise for this paper is that tourism scholars researching in Israel and Palestine are, in effect, actors in the geopolitical landscape of the Holy Land. Political tourism is a significant factor in how the Israel–Palestine geopolitical conflict is represented. The current paper provides an analysis of how tourism academics address the situation. A research team of Israeli, Palestinian and a third country origins collaborated to produce a narrative synthesis by systematically reviewing 35 academic papers selected through defined criteria. This approach minimized bias and aimed for analytical robustness and validity. Two main conclusions are derived from the analysis. First, papers tend to focus on the social, touristic and religious aspects of tourism not on the core issues of the geopolitical conflict. Second, the works did not contribute to dialogue between parties but reinforced separateness thus reflecting the political conflict.