Domestic tourism in Asia diversity and divergence /

Many countries have a rich tradition of domestic travel and holidaying which not only predates but exceeds mass international travel. This is particularly the case in Asia where recent economic prosperity and trends in globalization have not merely spurred, but continue to shape traditions in domest...

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Other Authors: Singh, Shalini.
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2009.
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505 0 # |a Domestic tourism: searching for an Asianic perspective / Shalini Singh -- Zen and the art of tourism maintenance: a meditation on so-called proto-tourism in Vietnam / Victor Alneng -- Cultural solutions to ecological problems in contemporary Japan: heritage tourism in Asuke / Christopher S. Thompson -- Pilgrim culture of Tirtha in India: enculturation of new age movements within age-old rituals / Shalini Singh -- From community to holiday camps: the emergence of a tourist economy in Mongolia / Amartuvshin Dorjsuren -- 'Domestic' tourism and its discontents: Han tourists in China's 'little Tibet' / Christopher Vasantkumar -- Year zero! From annihilation to renaissance: domestic tourism in Cambodia / Trevor H.B. Sofield -- Kyrgyz tourism at Lake Issyk-Kul: legacies of pre-communist and Soviet regimes / Nicola J. Palmer -- Indigenous people and domestic visitors of Taiwan / Geoffrey Wall and Janet Chang -- No, we are not 'eco-tourists': hill-walking and eco-tourism in Hong Kong / Chan Yuk Wah and Fung Yip Hing -- Crafting Filipino leisure: tourism programmes in the Philippines / Maria Cherry Lyn S. Rodolfo -- Awaiting attention: profiling the domestic tourism sector in Sri Lanka / Ranjith Ihalanayake -- Film-induced domestic tourism in Singapore: the case of Krrish / Audrey Yue -- Cultivating domestic tourism with global advantage: Malaysia and Singapore compared / Joan C. Henderson -- Holiday-making and the leisure space of the Macao people / Louis Tze Ngai Vong and Cindia Ching-Chi Lam -- Epilogue: domestic tourism in Asia -- contexts and directions / John K. Walton. 
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