Asia on Tour: Exploring the Rise of Asian Tourism

by Winter, Tim; Teo, Peggy; Chang, T. C.

• ISBN13: 9780203891803
• ISBN10: 0203891805
• Copyright: 2008-09-24
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis

Summary

Examining domestic and intra-regional tourism, the book reveals how improvements in infrastructures, ever increasing disposable incomes, liberalized economies, the inter-connectivities of globalization and the lowering of borders, both physical and political, are now enabling millions of Asians to travel as tourists.

Table of Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Notes On Contributors

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Rethinking Tourism in Asia, Tim Winter

Challenging Conventions

'A long and still-unfinished story'

constructing and defining Asian regionalisms

Knowledge Order in Asia, Peggy Teo Destination Asia: rethinking material culture

Disorganized Tourism Space: Chinese tourists in an age of Asian tourism

Emerging Markets, (Re)scripting

Places Singapore's Postcolonial Landscape: boutique hotels as agents

The Rebirth of the Hospital: heterotopia and medical tourism in Asia

Affective Sites: Hur Jin-Ho's cinema and film-induced tourism in Korea

Youngmin Choe Affinity Tourism: a case study of Indian tourists in Bali

Ayurvedic Tourism in Kerala: local identities and global markets

National Imaginings and Tourism

Development Between encouragement and control: tourism, modernity and discipline in China

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

The Internal Expansion of China: tourism and the production of distance

Revis(it)ing Heritage: dissonance or harmony?

From the centre to the margin: tourism and conflict in Kashmir

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

Gastronomy and Tourism: a case study of gourmet country-style cuisine in Hong Kong

Tourism and New Social Networks

"My Mother's Best Friend's Sister-in-law is Coming with Us'

domestic and international travels with a group of Lao tourists

"Donkey Friends' in China: the internet, civil society and the emergence of the Chinese backpacking community

Lim Still Vision and Mobile Youth: tourist photos, travel narratives and Taiwanese modernity

Yeh Conclusion Recasting tourism theory, towards an Asian future

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