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

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Channel View Publications eBook-Package 2023
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Place / Publishing House:Bristol, UK;, Blue Ridge Summit, PA : : Channel View Publications, , [2023]
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Year of Publication:2023
Language:English
Series:Tourism and Cultural Change ; 62
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Physical Description:1 online resource (232 p.)
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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
Summary: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.
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.