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Asia on tour: exploring the rise of Asian tourism
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Routledge
Publication Date
2009
Language
English
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Introduction : rethinking tourism in Asia / Tim Winter, Peggy Teo and T.C. Chang
'A long and still-unfinished story?' : constructing and defining Asian regionalisms / C. Michael Hall
Knowledge order in Asia / Peggy Teo
Destination Asia : rethinking material culture / Tim Winter
Disorganized tourism space : Chinese tourists in an age of Asian tourism / Chan Yuk Wah
Singapore's postcolonial landscape : boutique hotels as agents / Peggy Teo and T.C. Chang
The rebirth of the hospital : heterotopia and medical tourism in Asia / Audrey Bochaton and Bertrand Lefebvre
Affective sites : Hur Jin-Ho's cinema and film-induced tourism in Korea / Youngmin Choe
Renewing bonds in an age of Asian travel : Indian tourists in Bali / K. Thirumaran
Ayurvedic tourism in Kerala : local identities and global markets / Denise Spitzer
Between encouragement and control : tourism, modernity and discipline in China / Pál Nyíri
Tourism as glitter : re-examining domestic tourism in Indonesia / Maribeth Erb
Openings and limits : domestic tourism in Japan / Nelson Graburn
Disruptions of a dialectic and a stereotypical response : the case of the Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, tourism industry / Jamie Gillen
The internal expansion of China : tourism and the production of distance / Jenny Chio
From the centre to the margin : tourism and conflict in Kashmir / Shalini Panjabi
Staging the nation, exploring the margins : domestic tourism and its political implications in northern Thailand / Olivier Evrard and Prasit Leepreecha
Cultural preservation, tourism, and 'donkey travel' on China's frontier / Robert Shepherd
Gastronomy and tourism : a case study of gourmet country-style cuisine in Hong Kong / Sidney C.H. Cheung
'My mother's best friend's sister-in-law is coming with us' : domestic and international travels with a group of Lao tourists / Charles Carroll
'Donkey friends' in China : the Internet, civil society and the emergence of the Chinese backpacking community / Francis Khek Gee Lim
Still vision and mobile youth : tourist photos, travel narratives and Taiwanese modernity / Joyce Hsiu-yen Yeh
Conclusion : recasting tourism theory, towards an Asian future / Tim Winter.
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9780415460866
9780415460859
9780415460859
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