Asia on Tour: Exploring the Rise of Asian Tourism

Examining domestic and intra-regional tourism, the book reveals how improvements in infrastructures, ever increasing disposable incomes, liberalized economies, the inter-connectivities of globalization and the lowering of borders, both physical and political, are now enabling millions of Asians to travel as tourists.

1. Introduction: New Directions for Studying Tourism in Asia Tim Winter, Peggy Teo and T C Chang Part One: Questions of Theory 2. Theorising Tourism in Asia, Geoff Wall 3. Boundaries, borders and Mobility in Asia, Michael Hall and David Duval 4. 'Of Asian Destination': Rethinking Material Culture in Contemporary Asia, Tim Winter 5. Coming of age of the Chinese tourist: mainland Chinese tourists in Hong Kong, Singapore and Vietnam, Chan Yuk Wah and Vivienne Wee 6. 'Our Common Heritage': World Heritage, Tourism, and Post-Socialist Pedagogy, Pal Nyiri and Joana Breidenbach Part Two: Emerging Markets, (Re)scripting Places 7. Boutique Hotels and Singapore's Postcolonial Landscape, Peggy Teo & TC Chang, National University of Singapore 8. The Indigenization of Health Tourism in Asia: the Birth of New Therapeutic Landscapes in India and Thailand, Audrey Bochaton and Betrand LeFebvre 9. Domestic Screen Tourism in Korea and the Asian Experience, Choe Youngmin 10. Indian media And the lure of 'Uniquely Singapore', Faizal Yahya and Arunjeet Kaur 11. Affinity Tourism: A Case Study of Indian Tourists in Bali, K. Thirumaran, National University of Singapore 12. Ayurvedic Tourism in Kerala: Local Identities and Global Markets, Denise Spitzer, University of Ottawa Part Three: National Imaginings and Tourism Development 13. Thai Tourism: ordering the Nation, reconstructing the past, Olivier Evrard 14. Trails through Tourism: Reflections In Kashmir, Shalini Panjabi, independent scholar 15. Openings and Limits: Domestic Tourism in Japan, Nelson Graburn, University of California, Berkeley 16. Who are the Tourists?: Domestic Travellers or "Turis" to an Eastern Indonesian Island, Maribeth Erb, National University of Singapore, 17. Vietnamese Stereotypes At Home: frugality, frustration, and fissures in the production of national identity in the Ho Chi Minh City tourism industry, Jamie Gillen 18. Getting Bigger All the Time: The Internal Expansion of China, Jenny Chio Part Four: Tourism and New Social Networks 19. 'My mother's best friend's sister-in-law is coming with us': domestic and international travels with a group of Lao tourists, Charles Carroll 20. 'Donkey Friends' in China: The Internet, civil society and the emergence of the Chinese backpacker community, Francis Lim 21. Still Vision and Mobile Youth: Tourist Photos, Travel Narratives and Taiwanese Modernity, Joyce Yeh Hsiu-yen 22. I Love You Because We Are "Asian": Fantasy and Desire of Japanese Women in Tourist Spaces of Nepal, Chisono Yamaga Part Five: Revis(it)ing Heritage: dissonance or harmony? 23. Heritage as Development: Cultural Preservation & Tourism on China's Frontier, Robert Shepherd 24. Gastronomy and Asian Tourists in Hong Kong, Sidney Cheung