ISBN:
9781845418144
Language:
English
Pages:
1 online resource (187 pages)
Edition:
1st ed.
Series Statement:
Tourism and Cultural Change
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als
DDC:
306.4/819
Keywords:
Tourism
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Electronic books
Abstract:
At a time when COVID-19 is transforming the tourism industry, this book presents many contemporary inconsistencies and paradoxes in tourism contexts and studies. It offers a reconsideration of what may be needed in order to equip researchers and practitioners in tourism and related fields to better interpret and manage the future of tourism.
Abstract:
Front Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- Chapter 1: Introduction: Tourism Paradoxes - Contradictions, Controversies and Challenges -- Chapter 2: The Paradox of Modernity: Power, Identity and Tourism in Rural Cyprus -- Chapter 3: Go West! Overcoming the Paradoxes of Kinh Tourism in the Vietnamese Mountains: A Postcolonial Geography -- Chapter 4: The 'Logical Paradox' of Preservation via Change: The Touristic Potential of Malaysia's Catholic Mission Schools -- Chapter 5: Empowering Package Tour Travellers by Disempowering Tourism Operators? Assessing the Effectiveness of the Tourism Law of China -- Chapter 6: Cross-cultural Encounter: Sustaining Racial Prejudice or Prompting Reflection? -- Chapter 7: Contemporary Polemics of Chinese Outbound Tourism to Europe: Paradoxes, Inconsistencies and Contradictions -- Chapter 8: International Tourism Academia: A Paradoxical Challenge -- Chapter 9: The Call for 'Dynamic Genesis' (after Deleuze) in Tourism Studies -- Chapter 10: Afterword: Reflections on Paradoxes in Understanding, Culture, Mobility, and Tourism -- Index.
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