Routledge studies in contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility
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 / Susan Tarplee -- Sustainability and security : Lombok hotels' link with local communities / Fleur Fallon -- Priorities, people and preservation : nature-based tourism at Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam / Barbara Rugendyke and Nguyen Thi Son -- Communities on edge : conflicts over community tourism in Thailand / Tim Wong -- Community-based ecotourism in Thailand / Anucha Leksakundilok and Philip Hirsch -- Ecotourism and indigenous communities : the Lower Kinabatagan experience / Rajanathan Rajaratnam, Caroline Pang and Isabelle Lackman-Ancrenaz -- Adventures, picnics and nature conservation : ecotourism in Malaysian national parks / Norman Backhaus -- Marginal people and marginal places? / Barbara Rugendyke and John Connell.
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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.