The Rise of Tourism in China : : Social and Cultural Change / / Yiping Li.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Channel View Publications eBook-Package 2023
• VerfasserIn: Li, Yiping,
• Place / Publishing House: Bristol, UK;, Blue Ridge Summit, PA : : Channel View Publications, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Tourism and Cultural Change ; 62
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (232 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; 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
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781845418915; 9783111024875; 9783111319070; 9783111319292; 9783111318912; 9783111318134
• DOI: 10.21832/9781845418915
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Yiping Li.

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 a delicate balance between these is needed to achieve sustainable tourism.