ISBN:
0415405556
,
020393802X
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9780415405553
,
9780203938027
Language:
English
Pages:
Online-Ressource (xviii, 287 p)
,
ill., maps
,
24 cm
Edition:
Online-Ausg. 2009 Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
Series Statement:
Routledge studies in contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility
Parallel Title:
Print version Tourism at the Grassroots : Villagers and Visitors in the Asia Pacific
DDC:
306.4/819095
Keywords:
Tourism Social aspects
Abstract:
This new collection focuses on both the interactions between tourists and villagers, and the impacts of tourism at the local level, considering economic, social, cultural and environmental changes
Description / Table of Contents:
Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Figures; Maps; Tables; Contributors; Preface and acknowledgements; 1 Tourism and local people in the Asia-Pacific region; 2 Another (unintended) legacy of Captain Cook?: The evolution of Rapanui (Easter Island) tourism; 3 Moderate expectations and benign exploitation: Tourism on the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea; 4 'Everything is truthful here': Custom village tourism in Tanna, Vanuatu; 5 The whole nine villages: Local-level development through mass tourism in Tibetan China; 6 Weapons of the workers: Employees in the Fiji hotel scene
Description / Table of Contents:
7 On the beach: Small-scale tourism in Samoa8 After the bomb in a Balinese village; 9 Sustainability and security: Lombok hotels' link with local communities; 10 Priorities, people and preservation: Nature-based tourism at Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam; 11 Communities on edge: Conflicts over community tourism in Thailand; 12 Community-based ecotourism in Thailand; 13 Ecotourism and indigenous communities: The Lower Kinabatangan experience; 14 Adventures, picnics and nature conservation: Ecotourism in Malaysian national parks; 15 Marginal people and marginal places?; Index
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
Electronic reproduction; Available via World Wide Web
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