Domestic Tourism in Asia

Addresses the changes in domestic tourism in Asia. This book explores the ethos of domestic travel and holiday-making in order to understand the distinctive common strands that underlie conventional and contemporary tourism practices, against the local and global backdrop.

Auteur

Shalini Singh is Associate Professor in the Department of Recreation and Leisure Studies, Brock University, Ontario (Canada). She is also the Executive Editor of the international journal Tourism Recreation Research (Centre for Tourism Research & Development, India).

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This book is the first to address specifically the continuities and changes in domestic tourism in Asia. It explores the ethos of domestic travel and holiday-making in order to understand the distinctive common strands that underlie conventional and contemporary tourism practices, in the local-global backdrop. The range of countries covered in case studies is considerable, including those with patrimonial histories, namely China and India, the economically developed nation-state of Japan and the microstates of Taiwan, Singapore, Macao and Hong Kong, besides the coastal countries of Malaysia, Philippines, Laos and Vietnam, as well as the land-locked countries of Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia. The book presents some of the many interfaces of Asian cultural and natural heritages with tourism, while giving due considerations to the political and economic realities of today.

Contenu

Foreword - Linda K. Richter
Editor's Preface

1. Domestic Tourism: Searching for an Asianic Perspective

Part I: Aspects of Asian Domestic Tourism: Endemic

2. Zen and the Art of Tourism Maintenance: A Meditaion on So-called Prototourism in VIietnam
3. Cultural Solutions to Ecological Problems in Contemporary Japan: Heritage Tourism in Asuke
4. Pilgrim Culture of t rth? in India: Enculturation of New-age Movements within Age-old Rituals
5. From Community to Holiday Camps: The Emergence of Tourist Economy in Mongolia

Part II: Bricolage

6. 'Domestic' Tourism and its Discontents: Han Tourists in Tibetan Areas of the Pr China's 'Little Tibet'
7. Year Zero!: Erasing to Resurrect Domestic Tourism in Cambodia
8. Kyrgyz Tourism at Lake Issyk-Kul - Legacies of Pre-Communist and Soviet Regimes
9. Indigenous People and Domestic Visitors of Taiwan
10. O We Are Not 'Eco-Tourist': Hill-Walking and Eco-Tourism in Hong Kong
11. Crafting Filipino Leisure: Tourism Programs in the Philippines
12. Awaiting Attention: Profiling Domestic Tourism Sector in Sri Lanka

Part III: Embedded

13. Film-Induced Domestic Tourism In Singapore: The Case of 'Krrish'
14. Cultivating Domestic Tourism with Global Advantage: Malaysia and Singapore Compared
15. Holiday Making and Leisure Space of Macao People

Part IV: The Epilogue

16. Domestic Tourism in Asia: Contexts and Directions

Appendices
Index