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Participate in a tour / pilgrimage that includes solidarity action with the people... and stay with a local family! These are links to organisations that offer alternative pilgrimages: Biblelands Alternative Tourism Group The Holy Land Trust Zaytoun’s Harvest Tour or Olive Picking Trip The Olive Co-operative’s Olive Tours ICAHD’s House Rebuilding Camps ICAHD’s Alternative Tours International Solidarity Movement and nonviolent resistance Living Stones Solidarity Pilgrimages Tours in English ... and a link to their most recent newsletter ----------------------------------------------------------- Links/flyers of SPF recommended B&B in Palestine: Azar Family website Khouriya Family flyer http://www.biblelands.org.uk/news/pilgrimages.htmhttp://www.atg.ps/index.phphttp://www.holylandtrust.org/http://www.zaytoun.org/harvest/about-the-harvest/http://www.zaytoun.org/harvest/about-the-harvest/http://www.olivecoop.com/tours/olive-tours/http://www.icahd.org/icahdukdev/eng/parties.asphttp://www.icahd.org/eng/projects.asp?menu=3&submenu=4http://palsolidarity.org/joinhttp://palsolidarity.org/joinhttp://www.livingstonesonline.org.uk/http://toursinenglish.comhttp://toursinenglish.createsend2.com/T/ViewEmail/r/7AF43E5510197B42/C6B857DA4E549133C67FD2F38AC4859Chttp://www.stayinbethlehem.comVisit_Palestine_files/Brochure%20for%20B%26B.pdfshapeimage_1_link_0shapeimage_1_link_1shapeimage_1_link_2shapeimage_1_link_3shapeimage_1_link_4shapeimage_1_link_5shapeimage_1_link_6shapeimage_1_link_7shapeimage_1_link_8shapeimage_1_link_9shapeimage_1_link_10shapeimage_1_link_11shapeimage_1_link_12shapeimage_1_link_13shapeimage_1_link_14
  
A Code of Conduct for Tourism in the Holy Land: A Palestinian Initiative Responsible and just forms of tourism offer communities opportunities to share their cultures, tell their stories, request solidarity and foster tolerance and greater understanding. This is the principle that has shaped this Code of Conduct which has been developed to inform pilgrims and tourists of the reality of Palestine and Palestinians and to seek their support in using tourism to transform contemporary injustices. At the same time, the Code aims to raise awareness amongst Palestinian tourism stakeholders of how tourism in Palestine can be transformed and enhanced to truly benefit both hosts and visitors. The Code of Conduct by the Palestinian Initiative for Responsible Tourism can be downloaded here: Travel Code of Conduct.pdf Visit_Palestine_files/Travel%20Code%20of%20Conduct.pdfshapeimage_2_link_0


“Living Stones and dead children: Palestine and the politics of tourism”

This paper by  Dr Freya Higgins-Desbiolles, explores two contrasting cases in order to investigate how tourism is used as a tool to achieve political ends. Firstly, the Alternative Tourism Group of Palestine has worked to alert Christian pilgrims about the social, political and religious realities of the ‘Holy Land’ through a code of conduct in an effort to counterbalance the interpretation provided by an Israeli-dominated tourist trade. This can be usefully contrasted with a small niche of solidarity tourists joining the International Solidarity Movement, which provides an example of volunteer tourism for justice. These contrasting examples demonstrate the range of activities Palestinians and their supporters are taking to harness tourism for the political agenda of securing justice and peace for the Palestinian people.

Living stones and Dead Children.pdf