Del 62 i serien Tourism and Cultural Change

Rise of Tourism in China

Social and Cultural Change

Inbunden, Engelska, 2023

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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.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2023-05-15
Mått156 x 234 x 16 mm
Vikt490 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieTourism and Cultural Change
Antal sidor213
FörlagChannel View Publications Ltd
ISBN9781845418908

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Figures and TablesAcknowledgementsPrefaceIntroduction: Making or Remaking People and Places through TourismChapter 1. The Appeal of Distant Places: China’s Inbound Tourism in the 1990sChapter 2. Orientalism Revisited: Ethnic Tourism of China versus CanadaChapter 3. Tourism Impacts in China after Two Decades of DevelopmentChapter 4. Community Tourism and China’s Dilemma of ModernisationChapter 5. Red Tourism and China’s Communist IdentityChapter 6. The Impacts of the 2008 Beijing Olympic GamesChapter 7. Leisure Shopping and the Hong Kong–China RelationshipChapter 8. Island Festivals and Sense of Place: The Hong Kong ExperienceChapter 9. Linguistic Landscape, Tourism and an Island Place MakingChapter 10. Tourism and Social-Cultural Change in ChinaConclusion: Applying Ethnography to China Tourism ResearchReferencesIndex

In this seminal treatise Dr Li enlists his in-depth studies of mainland China, Hong Kong and Canada, and applies ethnographical methods to interpret the results from a humanistic perspective. He successfully steers the scholarly inquiry from the traditional deterministic towards the existential-phenomenological approach. The book skilfully lifts the value of qualitative case studies to the high-order theoretical plane and makes an original contribution to tourism knowledge.