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The rise of tourism in China : social and cultural change
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Title
The rise of tourism in China : social and cultural change / Yiping Li.
ISBN
9781845418908
1845418905
9781845418922
9781845418915
Publication
Bristol, UK ; Jackson, TN : Channel View Publications, [2023]
Physical Description
ix, 213 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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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"-- Provided by publisher.
Other formats
Online version: Li, Yiping, 1959- Rise of tourism in China Bristol, UK ; Jackson, TN : Channel View Publications, 2023
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
August 21, 2023
Series
Tourism and cultural change ; 62
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Introduction : making or remaking people and places through tourism
The appeal of distant places : China's inbound tourism in the 1990s
Orientalism revisited : ethnic tourism of China versus Canada
Tourism impacts in China after two decades of development
Community tourism and China's dilemma of modernisation
Red tourism and China's communist identity
The impacts of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games
Leisure shopping and the Hong Kong-China relationship
Island festivals and sense of place : the Hong Kong experience
Linguistic landscape, tourism and an island place making
Tourism and social-cultural change in China
Conclusion : applying ethnography to China tourism research.
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