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Tourism Paradoxes : Contradictions, Controversies and Challenges / ed. by Hazel Tucker, Erdinç Çakmak, Keith Hollinshead.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Tourism and Cultural Change ; 57Publisher: Bristol, UK; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Channel View Publications, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (200 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781845418120
  • 9781845418137
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.4/819 23
LOC classification:
  • G155.A1 T5924315 2021
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction: Tourism Paradoxes – Contradictions, Controversies and Challenges -- 2 The Paradox of Modernity: Power, Identity and Tourism in Rural Cyprus -- 3 Go West! Overcoming the Paradoxes of Kinh Tourism in the Vietnamese Mountains: A Postcolonial Geography -- 4 The ‘Logical Paradox’ of Preservation via Change: The Touristic Potential of Malaysia’s Catholic Mission Schools -- 5 Empowering Package Tour Travellers by Disempowering Tourism Operators? Assessing the Effectiveness of the Tourism Law of China -- 6 Cross-cultural Encounter: Sustaining Racial Prejudice or Prompting Reflection? -- 7 Contemporary Polemics of Chinese Outbound Tourism to Europe: Paradoxes, Inconsistencies and Contradictions -- 8 International Tourism Academia: A Paradoxical Challenge -- 9 The Call for ‘Dynamic Genesis’ (after Deleuze) in Tourism Studies -- 10 Afterword: Reflections on Paradoxes in Understanding, Culture, Mobility, and Tourism -- Index
Summary: At a time when COVID-19 is transforming the tourism industry, this book presents many contemporary inconsistencies and paradoxes in tourism contexts and studies. It offers a reconsideration of what may be needed in order to equip researchers and practitioners in tourism and related fields to better interpret and manage the future of tourism.
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures and Tables -- Contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Foreword -- 1 Introduction: Tourism Paradoxes – Contradictions, Controversies and Challenges -- 2 The Paradox of Modernity: Power, Identity and Tourism in Rural Cyprus -- 3 Go West! Overcoming the Paradoxes of Kinh Tourism in the Vietnamese Mountains: A Postcolonial Geography -- 4 The ‘Logical Paradox’ of Preservation via Change: The Touristic Potential of Malaysia’s Catholic Mission Schools -- 5 Empowering Package Tour Travellers by Disempowering Tourism Operators? Assessing the Effectiveness of the Tourism Law of China -- 6 Cross-cultural Encounter: Sustaining Racial Prejudice or Prompting Reflection? -- 7 Contemporary Polemics of Chinese Outbound Tourism to Europe: Paradoxes, Inconsistencies and Contradictions -- 8 International Tourism Academia: A Paradoxical Challenge -- 9 The Call for ‘Dynamic Genesis’ (after Deleuze) in Tourism Studies -- 10 Afterword: Reflections on Paradoxes in Understanding, Culture, Mobility, and Tourism -- Index

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At a time when COVID-19 is transforming the tourism industry, this book presents many contemporary inconsistencies and paradoxes in tourism contexts and studies. It offers a reconsideration of what may be needed in order to equip researchers and practitioners in tourism and related fields to better interpret and manage the future of tourism.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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