Tourism paradoxes : contradictions, controversies and challenges / edited by Erdinc Cakmak, Dr. Hazel Tucker, Prof. Keith Hollinshead.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Cakmak, Erdinc, editor.

Tucker, Dr. Hazel, editor.

Hollinshead, Prof. Keith, editor.

Series:

Tourism and Cultural Change ; 57

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (187 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Channel View Publications, [2021]

Summary:

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.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Figures and Tables

Contributors

Acknowledgements

Foreword

1 Introduction: Tourism Paradoxes - Contradictions, Controversies and Challenges

2 The Paradox of Modernity: Power, Identity and Tourism in Rural Cyprus

3 Go West! Overcoming the Paradoxes of Kinh Tourism in the Vietnamese Mountains: A Postcolonial Geography

4 The 'Logical Paradox' of Preservation via Change: The Touristic Potential of Malaysia's Catholic Mission Schools

5 Empowering Package Tour Travellers by Disempowering Tourism Operators? Assessing the Effectiveness of the Tourism Law of China

6 Cross-cultural Encounter: Sustaining Racial Prejudice or Prompting Reflection?

7 Contemporary Polemics of Chinese Outbound Tourism to Europe: Paradoxes, Inconsistencies and Contradictions

8 International Tourism Academia: A Paradoxical Challenge

9 The Call for 'Dynamic Genesis' (after Deleuze) in Tourism Studies

10 Afterword: Reflections on Paradoxes in Understanding, Culture, Mobility, and Tourism

Index

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-84541-813-1