
- 216 pages
- English
- ePUB (mobile friendly)
- Available on iOS & Android
About this book
This book offers a comprehensive understanding of China's tourism development from 1992 onwards, focusing on the social-cultural change that accompanied the rise of tourism. It examines both the economic benefits and sociocultural impacts of tourism and argues that tourism sustainability depends on a delicate balance between economic and social-cultural interests which could manifest differently among the stakeholders of various interests. It also explores, through both theoretical and empirical analysis, how travel connects people and places through the processes of tourist imagination and consumption. The volume portrays how contemporary discourses fuse with individual histories to formulate the ways in which tourists understand China. It will be a useful resource for students and scholars in human geography, tourism management, leisure and recreation, and social sciences.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half-Title
- Series
- Title
- Copyright
- Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Figures and Tables
- Preface
- Introduction: Making or Remaking People and Places through Tourism
- 1 The Appeal of Distant Places: China’s Inbound Tourism in the 1990s
- 2 Orientalism Revisited: Ethnic Tourism of China versus Canada
- 3 Tourism Impacts in China after Two Decades of Development
- 4 Community Tourism and China’s Dilemma of Modernisation
- 5 Red Tourism and China’s Communist Identity
- 6 The Impacts of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
- 7 Leisure Shopping and the Hong Kong–China Relationship
- 8 Island Festivals and Sense of Place: The Hong Kong Experience
- 9 Linguistic Landscape, Tourism and an Island Place Making
- 10 Tourism and Social-Cultural Change in China
- Conclusion: Applying Ethnography to China Tourism Research
- References
- Index