Screen LibraryTourism at the grassroots：villagers and visitors in the Asia-Pacific
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Routledge,
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| Publisher Address: | London New York |
| Publication Dates: | 2008. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Routledge studies in contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility |
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| Carrier Form: | xviii, 287 p.: ill., maps ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780415405553 (hardcover) 0415405556 (hardcover) 9780203938027 (ebook) 020393802X (ebook) |
| Index Number: | F59 |
| CLC: | F59 |
| Call Number: | F59/T727-8 |
| Contents: |
Includes bibliographical references and index. Tourism and local people in the Asia-Pacific region / John Connell and Barbara Rugendyke -- Another (unintended) legacy of Captain Cook? : The evolution of Rapanui (Easter Island) tourism / Grant McCall -- Moderate expectations and benign exploitation : tourism on the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea / Eric Kline Silverman -- 'Everything is truthful here' : custom village tourism in Tanna, Vanuatu / Prue Robinson and John Connell -- The whole nine villages : local-level development through mass tourism in Tibetan China / Kelly Dombroski -- Weapons of the workers : employees in the Fiji hotel scene / Yoko Kanemasu -- On the beach : small-scale tourism in Samoa / Regina Scheyvens -- After the bomb in a Balinese village ... 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. |