The Rise of Tourism in China : Social and Cultural Change / Yiping Li.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Li, Yiping, 1959- author.

Series:

Tourism and Cultural Change Series

Tourism and Cultural Change Series ; v.62

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tourism--China.

Tourism.

Tourism--Social aspects--China.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (218 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Bristol, England : Channel View Publications, [2023]

Summary:

This book offers a comprehensive understanding of China's tourism development from 1992 onwards, focusing on the social-cultural change that accompanied the rise of tourism. It examines both the economic benefits and sociocultural impacts of tourism and argues that a delicate balance between these is needed to achieve sustainable tourism.

Contents:

Introduction : making or remaking people and places through tourism

The appeal of distant places : China's inbound tourism in the 1990s

Orientalism revisited : ethnic tourism of China versus Canada

Tourism impacts in China after two decades of development

Community tourism and China's dilemma of modernisation

Red tourism and China's communist identity

The impacts of the 2008 Beijing Olympic Games

Leisure shopping and the Hong Kong-China relationship

Island festivals and sense of place : the Hong Kong experience

Linguistic landscape, tourism and an island place making

Tourism and social-cultural change in China

Conclusion : applying ethnography to China tourism research.

Notes:

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Li, Yiping The Rise of Tourism in China

ISBN:

9781845418915

1845418913

9781845418922

1845418921

OCLC:

1373934220