Tourism At the Grassroots - Villagers and Visitors in the Asia-Pacific

Zusatztext "Should be useful to tourism researchers and planners in the Asia-Pacific and beyond....Recommended." - Choice! March 2009"Connell and Rugendyke's introduction helpfully enumerates the problems with tourism that villagers! and academics! are keeping their eyes on."- Pacific Affairs Informationen zum Autor John Connell, Barbara Rugendyke Klappentext This collection of essays focuses on both the interactions between tourists and villagers, and the impacts of tourism at the local level, considering economic, social, cultural and environmental changes. Zusammenfassung This collection focuses on both the interactions between tourists and villagers, and the impacts of tourism at the local level, considering economic, social, cultural and environmental changes. Inhaltsverzeichnis 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?

Product details

• Authors: John (University of Sydney Connell, John Rugendyke Connell, CONNELL JOHN RUGENDYKE BARBARA, Connell B. John
• Assisted by: John Connell (Editor), Barbara Rugendyke (Editor), Rugendyke Barbara (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.03.2008
• EAN: 9780415405553
• ISBN: 978-0-415-40555-3
• No. of pages: 308
• Series: Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility; Routledge Studies in Contempor; Contemporary Geographies of Leisure, Tourism and Mobility
• Subjects: Guides > Motor vehicles, aircraft, ships, space travel; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geography; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Tourism industry, Hospitality, sports, leisure and tourism industries