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| Material Type: | Internet resource |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Tim Winter; Peggy Teo; T C Chang |
| ISBN: | 9780415460859 0415460859 9780415460866 0415460867 9780203891803 0203891805 |
| OCLC Number: | 179814152 |
| Description: | xiv, 360 p. : ill., maps ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction : rethinking tourism in Asia / Tim Winter, Peggy Teo and T.C. Chang -- 'A long and still-unfinished story?' : constructing and defining Asian regionalisms / C. Michael Hall -- Knowledge order in Asia / Peggy Teo -- Destination Asia : rethinking material culture / Tim Winter -- Disorganized tourism space : Chinese tourists in an age of Asian tourism / Chan Yuk Wah -- Singapore's postcolonial landscape : boutique hotels as agents / Peggy Teo and T.C. Chang -- The rebirth of the hospital : heterotopia and medical tourism in Asia / Audrey Bochaton and Bertrand Lefebvre -- Affective sites : Hur Jin-Ho's cinema and film-induced tourism in Korea / Youngmin Choe -- Renewing bonds in an age of Asian travel : Indian tourists in Bali / K. Thirumaran -- Ayurvedic tourism in Kerala : local identities and global markets / Denise Spitzer -- Between encouragement and control : tourism, modernity and discipline in China / Pál Nyíri -- Tourism as glitter : re-examining domestic tourism in Indonesia / Maribeth Erb -- Openings and limits : domestic tourism in Japan / Nelson Graburn -- Disruptions of a dialectic and a stereotypical response : the case of the Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, tourism industry / Jamie Gillen -- The internal expansion of China : tourism and the production of distance / Jenny Chio -- From the centre to the margin : tourism and conflict in Kashmir / Shalini Panjabi -- Staging the nation, exploring the margins : domestic tourism and its political implications in northern Thailand / Olivier Evrard and Prasit Leepreecha -- Cultural preservation, tourism, and 'donkey travel' on China's frontier / Robert Shepherd -- Gastronomy and tourism : a case study of gourmet country-style cuisine in Hong Kong / Sidney C.H. Cheung -- 'My mother's best friend's sister-in-law is coming with us' : domestic and international travels with a group of Lao tourists / Charles Carroll -- 'Donkey friends' in China : the Internet, civil society and the emergence of the Chinese backpacking community / Francis Khek Gee Lim -- Still vision and mobile youth : tourist photos, travel narratives and Taiwanese modernity / Joyce Hsiu-yen Yeh -- Conclusion : recasting tourism theory, towards an Asian future / Tim Winter. |
| Responsibility: | edited by Tim Winter, Peggy Teo and T.C. Chang. |
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