Author: Bruce Prideaux
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317998618
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
The Asia Pacific region’s enormous diversity of living cultures and preserved heritage sites has significant appeal to many tourists. However tourism has grown so rapidly that many issues associated with the incorporation of cultural and heritage experiences in tourist itineraries (such as authenticity verses commodification, exploitation of national cultures, impacts on local communities, and the management of heritage resources) have not been adequately addressed and must be debated. This revealing book reviews recent developments in cultural and heritage tourism in the Asia Pacific region and provides a discussion on how communities have faced and overcome significant challenges to develop and market their culture and heritage resources. A range of models and case studies are used to deepen the reader’s understanding of heritage and cultural issues, to illustrate many of the more controversial issues, and to examine new evaluative, and planning tools. This book is a special issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research.
Cultural and Heritage Tourism in Asia and the Pacific
Author: Bruce Prideaux
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317998618
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
The Asia Pacific region’s enormous diversity of living cultures and preserved heritage sites has significant appeal to many tourists. However tourism has grown so rapidly that many issues associated with the incorporation of cultural and heritage experiences in tourist itineraries (such as authenticity verses commodification, exploitation of national cultures, impacts on local communities, and the management of heritage resources) have not been adequately addressed and must be debated. This revealing book reviews recent developments in cultural and heritage tourism in the Asia Pacific region and provides a discussion on how communities have faced and overcome significant challenges to develop and market their culture and heritage resources. A range of models and case studies are used to deepen the reader’s understanding of heritage and cultural issues, to illustrate many of the more controversial issues, and to examine new evaluative, and planning tools. This book is a special issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1317998618
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 339
Book Description
The Asia Pacific region’s enormous diversity of living cultures and preserved heritage sites has significant appeal to many tourists. However tourism has grown so rapidly that many issues associated with the incorporation of cultural and heritage experiences in tourist itineraries (such as authenticity verses commodification, exploitation of national cultures, impacts on local communities, and the management of heritage resources) have not been adequately addressed and must be debated. This revealing book reviews recent developments in cultural and heritage tourism in the Asia Pacific region and provides a discussion on how communities have faced and overcome significant challenges to develop and market their culture and heritage resources. A range of models and case studies are used to deepen the reader’s understanding of heritage and cultural issues, to illustrate many of the more controversial issues, and to examine new evaluative, and planning tools. This book is a special issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research.
Proceedings of the Asia Pacific Tourism Association Fifth Annual Conference, 23-25 August 1999, Hong Kong SAR, China
Author: Asia Pacific Tourism Association. Conference
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789623672573
Category : Tourism
Languages : en
Pages : 965
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789623672573
Category : Tourism
Languages : en
Pages : 965
Book Description
Tourism Crisis and Disaster Management in the Asia-Pacific
Author: Brent W Ritchie
Publisher: CABI
ISBN: 178064325X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Asia-Pacific area is one of the fastest growing tourism regions and a major driver of global tourism in general. Tourism industries in Asia Pacific have been challenged in recent years by a number of major crises and disasters including terrorism, outbreaks (e.g. SARS and Bird Flu), natural disasters (e.g. tsunamis, bushfires, flooding), and political crisis (e.g. protests and political instability). This book contributes to the understanding of crisis and disaster management generally, but with a specific focus on the Asia Pacific. With contributions by international scholars and practitioners, the book discusses both the theoretical and practical approaches toward successful crisis and disaster management.
Publisher: CABI
ISBN: 178064325X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 286
Book Description
The Asia-Pacific area is one of the fastest growing tourism regions and a major driver of global tourism in general. Tourism industries in Asia Pacific have been challenged in recent years by a number of major crises and disasters including terrorism, outbreaks (e.g. SARS and Bird Flu), natural disasters (e.g. tsunamis, bushfires, flooding), and political crisis (e.g. protests and political instability). This book contributes to the understanding of crisis and disaster management generally, but with a specific focus on the Asia Pacific. With contributions by international scholars and practitioners, the book discusses both the theoretical and practical approaches toward successful crisis and disaster management.
Oh, what a Feeling!
Author: Asia Pacific Tourism Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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International Rural Tourism Development
Author: World Tourism Organization (Unwto)
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789284418817
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This publication released on the occasion of the International Year for Sustainable Tourism for Development 2017, focuses on community empowerment and poverty alleviation through rural tourism development. The report shines a light on rural tourism development in the Asia Pacific region with fourteen specific case studies that show how communities have adapted a sustainable approach to rural tourism that stimulates economic growth, creates employment and improves the livelihood of communities.
Publisher:
ISBN: 9789284418817
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 198
Book Description
This publication released on the occasion of the International Year for Sustainable Tourism for Development 2017, focuses on community empowerment and poverty alleviation through rural tourism development. The report shines a light on rural tourism development in the Asia Pacific region with fourteen specific case studies that show how communities have adapted a sustainable approach to rural tourism that stimulates economic growth, creates employment and improves the livelihood of communities.
Asia-Pacific Tourism
Author: Pookong Kee
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
"Papers presented at the Asia-Pacific Tourism Conference organized by the Center for Asia-Pacifc Studies, Victoria University of Technology"--Pref.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 230
Book Description
"Papers presented at the Asia-Pacific Tourism Conference organized by the Center for Asia-Pacifc Studies, Victoria University of Technology"--Pref.
Asia Pacific Tourism Forecasts
Author: Lindsay W. Turner
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tourism
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Tourism
Languages : en
Pages :
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Cultural and Heritage Tourism in Asia and the Pacific
Author: Bruce Prideaux
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131799860X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Asia Pacific region’s enormous diversity of living cultures and preserved heritage sites has significant appeal to many tourists. However tourism has grown so rapidly that many issues associated with the incorporation of cultural and heritage experiences in tourist itineraries (such as authenticity verses commodification, exploitation of national cultures, impacts on local communities, and the management of heritage resources) have not been adequately addressed and must be debated. This revealing book reviews recent developments in cultural and heritage tourism in the Asia Pacific region and provides a discussion on how communities have faced and overcome significant challenges to develop and market their culture and heritage resources. A range of models and case studies are used to deepen the reader’s understanding of heritage and cultural issues, to illustrate many of the more controversial issues, and to examine new evaluative, and planning tools. This book is a special issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research.
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 131799860X
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 510
Book Description
The Asia Pacific region’s enormous diversity of living cultures and preserved heritage sites has significant appeal to many tourists. However tourism has grown so rapidly that many issues associated with the incorporation of cultural and heritage experiences in tourist itineraries (such as authenticity verses commodification, exploitation of national cultures, impacts on local communities, and the management of heritage resources) have not been adequately addressed and must be debated. This revealing book reviews recent developments in cultural and heritage tourism in the Asia Pacific region and provides a discussion on how communities have faced and overcome significant challenges to develop and market their culture and heritage resources. A range of models and case studies are used to deepen the reader’s understanding of heritage and cultural issues, to illustrate many of the more controversial issues, and to examine new evaluative, and planning tools. This book is a special issue of the Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research.
Tourism at the Grassroots
Author: John Connell
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134135416
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
In two regions where tourism is of considerable economic importance, eastern Asia and the Pacific, there have been remarkably few studies of the impacts of tourism in rural areas. Moreover, the shift towards ecotourism, touted as a more environmentally benign form of tourism, has extended the reach of tourism into more remote and fragile envir
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1134135416
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 377
Book Description
In two regions where tourism is of considerable economic importance, eastern Asia and the Pacific, there have been remarkably few studies of the impacts of tourism in rural areas. Moreover, the shift towards ecotourism, touted as a more environmentally benign form of tourism, has extended the reach of tourism into more remote and fragile envir
The Eighth Asia Pacific Tourism Association Annual Conference "Tourism Development in the Asia Pacific Region
Author: Asia Pacific Tourism Association
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages :
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