List of Figures, Tables and Boxes | p. ix |
List of Contributors | p. xiii |
Foreword | p. xix |
Preface | p. xxi |
Acknowledgements | p. xxv |
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations | p. xxvii |
Domestic Tourism: Searching for an Asianic Perspective | p. 1 |
Introduction | p. 1 |
Making the case: Domestic tourism in Asia | p. 3 |
Asian domestic tourism: The problematic | p. 11 |
Asian domestic tourism: A discourse | p. 13 |
The future: Endogenous scenarios | p. 23 |
In this book | p. 25 |
Zen and the Art of Tourism Maintenance: A Meditation on So-Called Proto-Tourism in Vietnam | p. 31 |
The quest for the proto-touristic | p. 31 |
Pilgrims in cable cars | p. 31 |
Zen tourists at the bamboo grove | p. 33 |
The formal and real 'subsumption' of tourism | p. 38 |
Zen and the art of tourism maintenance | p. 40 |
The secret of so-called proto-tourism | p. 43 |
Cultural Solutions to Ecological Problems in Contemporary Japan: Heritage Tourism in Asuke | p. 51 |
Introduction | p. 53 |
Situating Asuke | p. 58 |
The origin of Japanese domestic tourism | p. 59 |
Rural decline and local tourism in post-war Japan | p. 60 |
Asuke's distinctive heritage asset | p. 62 |
'Heritage politics' in Asuke | p. 63 |
Reflecting inward, not outward, for local socio-cultural solutions | p. 64 |
Origin of the Asuke Yashiki concept | p. 65 |
Asuke Yashiki: Finalizing the blueprint | p. 67 |
Asuke Yashiki's financial viability | p. 70 |
Analysing Asuke Yashiki's success | p. 72 |
Asuke Yashiki in the New Millennium | p. 73 |
Cultural tourism and Japan's urban-rural dynamic | p. 76 |
Pilgrim Culture of Tírtha in India: Enculturation of New Age Movements within Age-Old Rituals | p. 81 |
Introduction | p. 81 |
Sojourns of the Indian masses: An overview | p. 82 |
The tradition of tírth&amacron; y&amacron;tr&amacron; | p. 89 |
Analysing current practices: Critical observations | p. 95 |
Evolving tírtha rituals | p. 100 |
From Community to Holiday Camps: The Emergence of a Tourist Economy in Mongolia | p. 107 |
Introduction | p. 107 |
Leisure/holiday/travel potential of Mongolia | p. 107 |
Socialism and domestic tourism | p. 109 |
The impact of domestic tourism on the nomadic lifestyle of Mongols: An exploration | p. 119 |
Contributions and conflicts of domestic tourism in Mongolia | p. 122 |
Conclusions | p. 126 |
'Domestic' Tourism and Its Discontents: Han Tourists in China's 'Little Tibet' | p. 129 |
Introduction | p. 129 |
A day on the grasslands | p. 131 |
Tourist supernovae | p. 138 |
Year Zero! From Annihilation to Renaissance: Domestic Tourism in Cambodia | p. 151 |
Introduction | p. 151 |
Tourism as a sector for post-conflict development | p. 157 |
Heritage and history: The Khmer Empire and Angkor | p. 158 |
Angkor as pilgrimage tourism | p. 161 |
Concurrence | p. 166 |
Festivals and special events | p. 169 |
Pithy Banghos Kleng - the Kite Festival | p. 172 |
Conclusions | p. 176 |
Kyrgyz Tourism at Lake Issyk-Kul: Legacies of Pre-Communist and Soviet Regimes | p. 181 |
Introduction | p. 181 |
Kyrgyzstan: Past influences | p. 182 |
Domestic tourism in the context of Kyrgyzstan | p. 183 |
The importance of Lake Issyk-Kul | p. 184 |
Pre-communist era travel patterns in Kyrgyzstan | p. 185 |
Soviet-era tourism in Kyrgyzstan | p. 187 |
Lake Issyk-Kul: Pre-communist era and Soviet era tourism legacies | p. 189 |
Conclusions | p. 192 |
Indigenous People and Domestic Visitors of Taiwan | p. 197 |
Introduction | p. 197 |
Relationships between indigenous people and tourism | p. 197 |
Indigenous people and tourism in Taiwan | p. 200 |
The colonial legacy and tourism in Wulai | p. 201 |
Souvenir purchases and product evaluation in Wulai | p. 204 |
Danayigu Ecological Park | p. 207 |
Marketing aboriginal products | p. 208 |
Conclusions | p. 214 |
No, We Are not 'Eco-Tourists': Hill-Walking and Eco-Tourism in Hong Kong | p. 219 |
Introduction | p. 219 |
Eco-tourism in different contexts | p. 220 |
Hiking and hill-walking | p. 223 |
The SARS effect on eco-travel | p. 225 |
Packaging nature: Theme park eco-tourism | p. 226 |
Conclusions | p. 230 |
Crafting Filipino Leisure: Tourism Programmes in the Philippines | p. 235 |
Introduction | p. 235 |
Definition and measurement of domestic tourism | p. 236 |
Domestic tourism development | p. 237 |
Conclusions | p. 248 |
Awaiting Attention: Profiling the Domestic Tourism Sector in Sri Lanka | p. 253 |
Introduction | p. 253 |
Tourism sector in Sri Lanka | p. 255 |
Conclusions | p. 264 |
Film-Induced Domestic Tourism in Singapore: The Case of Krrish | p. 267 |
Introduction | p. 267 |
Domestic tourism in Singapore | p. 267 |
Creative co-produced film economy in Singapore | p. 271 |
Film-induced tourism: Domestic tourism and Krrish | p. 272 |
Conclusions | p. 278 |
Cultivating Domestic Tourism with Global Advantage: Malaysia and Singapore Compared | p. 283 |
Introduction | p. 283 |
Background: Malaysia and Singapore | p. 284 |
Tourism and tourism resources in Malaysia and Singapore | p. 288 |
Tourism policies and promotion | p. 289 |
Domestic tourism: A supply perspective | p. 291 |
Domestic tourism: A demand perspective | p. 293 |
Domestic and outbound compared | p. 295 |
Future prospects | p. 296 |
Conclusions | p. 297 |
Holiday-Making and the Leisure Space of the Macao People | p. 301 |
Macao background | p. 301 |
Leisure 'space' of the Macao people | p. 302 |
Nature attractions and green holidays in Coloane | p. 303 |
Gong Bei as the rear garden of the Macao people | p. 305 |
Macao as a rising Las Vegas in Asia | p. 307 |
Festivals as a distinct genre of holidaying | p. 308 |
Lunar New Year | p. 308 |
Mid-Autumn Festival | p. 309 |
Conclusions | p. 312 |
Epilogue: Domestic Tourism in Asia - Contexts and Directions | p. 315 |
Index | p. 325 |
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