Tourism at the Grassroots (eBook, PDF)

Villagers and Visitors in the Asia-Pacific
Redaktion: Connell, John; Rugendyke, Barbara

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

In two regions where tourism is of considerable economic importance, eastern Asia and the Pacific, there have been remarkably few studies of the impacts of tourism in rural areas. Moreover, the shift towards ecotourism, touted as a more environmentally benign form of tourism, has extended the reach of tourism into more remote and fragile envir

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. März 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134135424
• Artikelnr.: 43070788

Autorenporträt

John Connell, Barbara Rugendyke

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction: 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 Exploration:
Tourism in 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 7. On the Beach: Small-Scale
Tourism in Samoa 8. After the Bomb in a Balinese Village 9. Sustainability
and Security: Employing Local People in Lombok Hotels, Indonesia 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 in
Borneo 14. Adventures, Picnics and Nature Tourism: Ecotourism in Malaysian
National Parks 15. Conclusion: Marginal People and Marginal Places?