"إشكاليات الارتقاء بسوق القطانين سياحيًا في القدس المحتلة، دراسة تحليلية وتوجهات للتطوير المستدام"
Date
2025-05-28
Authors
قصي فخري صالح عباس
Qusay Fakhri Salah Abbas
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Al-Quds University
Abstract
تُعد السياحة المحرك الاقتصادي الأساس في مدينة القدس على مدى الفترات التاريخية المختلفة، فهي بستان القداسة للديانات الثلاثة، الذي تَشكل مشهده الحضاري والثقافي والتراثي والمجتمعي، نتيجة لتفاعل فريد من أقوام وأمم وعرقيات مختلفة على أرض المدينة العربية، التي ترزح تحت وطأة (استعمار استيطاني صهيوني)، مبتغاه الوحيد هو ممارسة الإبادة بأنّواعها لإفناء كل ما هو فلسطيني على أرض فلسطين: دينيًا وحضاريًا وثقافيًا وتراثيًا ومجتمعيًا واقتصاديًا وسياحيًا.
تسعى هذه الدراسة إلى تسليط الضوء على أسواق القدس القديمة عامة، وسوق القطانين خاصة، التي من المتوقع حسب الإحصائيات الرسمية المتعلقة بقطاع السياحة أن تكون مزدهرة ومنتعشة اقتصاديًا، إلا إن واقعها معاكس لذلك تمامًا، مما يؤكد على وجود خلل في حجم الإنفاق السياحي داخل المدينة.
تحاول هذه الدراسة إيجاد أداة مجتمعية تساعد في ارتقاء سوق القطانين سياحيًا، وقد استخدم الباحث لهذا الغرض المنهج التاريخي والمنهج الكيفي القائم على جمع البيانات النوعية باستخدام المقابلة المعمقة شبه الممنهجة أداة للدراسة، مع أصحاب المصالح في السوق ومحيطها، من تجار ومؤسسات وأدلاء سياحيين.
خلصت هذه الدراسة إلى تقديم توجهات إدارية ومؤسساتية تسعى إلى حوكمة السوق من خلال التجار والمؤسسات ذات العلاقة، وتوجهات ثقافية وتعزيز الهوية هدفها إحياء الفعاليات الثقافية والترفيهية وتنمية سياحة مجتمعية وثقافية ودينية وسياسية وتضامنية، تعزز دور السوق كموقع حي يروي قصة المدينة وهويتها الأصلية، وتوجهات تسويقية وسياحية تجعل سوق القطانين محطة مهمة في المسارات السياحية المختلفة، وتوجهات ترميمية وعمرانية هدفها الحفاظ على أصالة السوق وعناصرها المعمارية الفريدة، ولكن بطريقة تزيد من جاذبية السوق.
هذه الدراسة بتوجهاتها المختلفة يمكن أن تقدم دورًا إيجابيًا باقتراح حلول ذات تأثير على الوضع الاقتصادي والثقافي لمدينة القدس وأسواقها؛ في حال قيام تجار المدينة بالدور المتوقع منهم ليتحولوا من متفرجين إلى فاعلين، ومن مستفيدين فقط من السياحة إلى مستفيدين ومشاركين ولاعبين أساسيين في تنميتها.
Tourism has been the main source of economic drive in the city of Jerusalem throughout various historical periods. As a sacred garden for the three heavenly religions, the city by which its civilizational, cultural, heritage, and societal landscape has been shaped by the unique interaction of diverse peoples, nations, and ethnicities within the Arab city. The city that suffers under the yoke of Zionist settler-colonialism, whose sole aim and purpose is to carry out genocide in its different gruesome forms to annihilate all that is Palestinian in Palestine: whether it was religious, cultural, heritage, societal, economic, and touristic. This study aims to shed light on the markets (souqs) of the Old City of Jerusalem in general, and Souq al-Qattanin (Market of the Cotton Merchants) in particular. According to official statistics on the tourism sector, these markets are expected to be these lively, vibrant, and economically thriving spaces. However, reality tells a different story, the complete opposite. This discrepancy confirms the critical imbalance in the volume of tourism spending in the city. This study attempts to develop a community-based tool that will help promote the Qattanin Souq as a tourist destination. For this purpose, the researcher employed a historical and qualitative approach based on collecting qualitative data using semi-structured in-depth interviews with stakeholders in the market/Souq and its surroundings, including merchants, institutions, and tour guides. The research findings and conclusions have supported a number of recommendations, including presenting administrative and institutional approaches that seek to govern the market through merchants and related institutions. The findings have also presented cultural and identity-bolstering approaches that aim to revive cultural and recreational activities and develop community, cultural, religious, political, and solidarity-based tourism, while enhancing the market's role as a living site that tells the city's story and its indigenous identity. Finally, the findings have also presented marketing and tourism approaches that make souq al-Qattanin a stop on various tourist itineraries, in addition to restoration and urban approaches that aim to preserve the market's authenticity and unique architectural elements, but in a way that enhances the market's appeal. This study, with its various approaches, attempts to have a positive impact on the economic and cultural situation of the city of Jerusalem and its markets. This would materialize if merchants are willing to fulfill the role expected of them, so they shift from the role of mere spectators to active participants instead, and from mere beneficiaries of tourism to beneficiaries, participants, and key partners in the better development of the markets.
Tourism has been the main source of economic drive in the city of Jerusalem throughout various historical periods. As a sacred garden for the three heavenly religions, the city by which its civilizational, cultural, heritage, and societal landscape has been shaped by the unique interaction of diverse peoples, nations, and ethnicities within the Arab city. The city that suffers under the yoke of Zionist settler-colonialism, whose sole aim and purpose is to carry out genocide in its different gruesome forms to annihilate all that is Palestinian in Palestine: whether it was religious, cultural, heritage, societal, economic, and touristic. This study aims to shed light on the markets (souqs) of the Old City of Jerusalem in general, and Souq al-Qattanin (Market of the Cotton Merchants) in particular. According to official statistics on the tourism sector, these markets are expected to be these lively, vibrant, and economically thriving spaces. However, reality tells a different story, the complete opposite. This discrepancy confirms the critical imbalance in the volume of tourism spending in the city. This study attempts to develop a community-based tool that will help promote the Qattanin Souq as a tourist destination. For this purpose, the researcher employed a historical and qualitative approach based on collecting qualitative data using semi-structured in-depth interviews with stakeholders in the market/Souq and its surroundings, including merchants, institutions, and tour guides. The research findings and conclusions have supported a number of recommendations, including presenting administrative and institutional approaches that seek to govern the market through merchants and related institutions. The findings have also presented cultural and identity-bolstering approaches that aim to revive cultural and recreational activities and develop community, cultural, religious, political, and solidarity-based tourism, while enhancing the market's role as a living site that tells the city's story and its indigenous identity. Finally, the findings have also presented marketing and tourism approaches that make souq al-Qattanin a stop on various tourist itineraries, in addition to restoration and urban approaches that aim to preserve the market's authenticity and unique architectural elements, but in a way that enhances the market's appeal. This study, with its various approaches, attempts to have a positive impact on the economic and cultural situation of the city of Jerusalem and its markets. This would materialize if merchants are willing to fulfill the role expected of them, so they shift from the role of mere spectators to active participants instead, and from mere beneficiaries of tourism to beneficiaries, participants, and key partners in the better development of the markets.
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عباس، قصي فخري. (2025). "إشكاليات الارتقاء بسوق القطانين سياحيًا في القدس المحتلة، دراسة تحليلية وتوجهات للتطوير المستدام" [رسالة ماجستير غير منشورة]. Al-Quds University.