Rami K. Isaac

Rami K. Isaac has more than 20 years of experience in tourism studies. Born in Palestine, Rami Isaac did his undergraduate studies in The Netherlands, graduate studies in the UK and earned his PhD from the University of Groningen, in Spatial Sciences, in The Netherlands. He is currently an associate professor at the Faculty of Tourism and Hospitality at Bethlehem University, Palestine and at Breda University of Applied Sciences. He was the former President of the Research Committee 50 on International Tourism, International Sociologist Association (ISA) (2014-2018) and currently he is the Vice-President of RC50 Tourism (2018-2027). His research interests in the area of tourism development and management, cultural heritage/dark tourism and political aspects of tourism. He has co-authored more than 90 academic papers, and book chapters on tourism and political (in)stability, occupation, tourism and war, violence and transformational tourism. He is also the co-editor of the books The Politics and Power of Tourism in Palestine (2016), Tourism and Hospitality in Conflict-ridden Destinations (2019), Tourism Interventions: Making or Breaking Places (2024); Tourism, Safety, Security and Resilience: A community Integrated Approach (2024) by Routledge and co-editor of the Changing Practices of Tourism Stakeholders in Covid-19-Affected Destinations (2023) by Channel View and forthcoming (2025) book written by Isaac, Çakmak and Butler entitled The Possible, Probable and Preferable Futures of Tourism Destinations, Routledge.