Asia on Tour: Exploring the rise of Asian tourism

Book Cover......Page 1
Asia on Tour......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Figures......Page 10
Tables......Page 12
Contributors......Page 13
Acknowledgments......Page 17
Abbreviations......Page 18
1 Introduction: Rethinking tourism in Asia......Page 19
Challenging conventions: universalism, cultural relativismand historical voids......Page 22
Emerging markets, (re)scripting places......Page 27
National imaginings and tourism development......Page 29
The politics of revis(it)ing heritage......Page 32
Tourism and new social networks......Page 35
Conclusion......Page 50
Part I: Challenging conventions......Page 37
Introduction......Page 39
Introduction......Page 52
Force-fields in touris......Page 53
Asian tourism......Page 55
Ideology......Page 61
Methods......Page 62
Discourses......Page 63
Conclusion......Page 67
Notes......Page 69
Introduction......Page 70
Approaching material culture......Page 71
History repeats itself: revival and restoration......Page 73
The arrival of Asian tourism......Page 76
Implications: rethinking material culture......Page 81
Note......Page 84
Introduction......Page 85
A literature review of Chinese tourists in Asia......Page 86
Statistical overview of the Chinese tourism boom......Page 87
Chinese mobility and the quest for modernity in a ‘disorganized tourism space’......Page 88
Stereotypes of Chinese tourists......Page 91
Place-specific host–guest inteactions......Page 92
Conclusion: disjuncture in the global tourism landscape......Page 94
Note......Page 95
Part II: Emerging markets, (re)scripting places......Page 97
Introduction......Page 99
Boutique hotels as postcolonial embodiments: promises and possibilities......Page 101
Postcolonial landscapes: hybridization and alterity......Page 104
Envisioning postcolonial futures: innovative hotels and the creative economy......Page 110
Trendies and tourists: transculturation and personal identities......Page 111
Notes......Page 114
Introduction......Page 115
Of Asian origins: the true face of medical tourists in Asia......Page 116
Medical tourism as a heterotopia......Page 119
Rejuvenating the hospital......Page 122
Conclusion......Page 125
Acknowledgements......Page 126
Introduction......Page 127
Affect, emotion, feelings and heart......Page 129
Body genres, cinematic affect, and affective tourism......Page 132
Affect and affectation......Page 135
Conclusion......Page 143
Tracing the exotic......Page 145
Historical ties......Page 147
Indian tourists in Bali......Page 148
Shared heritage and bonds......Page 149
Conclusion: thinking of bonds......Page 154
Introduction......Page 156
The study......Page 157
Ayurveda: a brief overview......Page 158
Marketing Ayurvedic tourism in a global world......Page 160
Impact of tourism on Ayurvedic practice......Page 162
Ayurvedic tourism and Indian identity: global and local intersections......Page 164
Conclusion......Page 166
Acknowledgments......Page 168
Part III: National imaginings and tourism development......Page 169
Tourism as ‘spiritual modernization’......Page 171
Disciplining the traveler......Page 175
Tourism as ‘indoctritainment’......Page 177
How tourists respond......Page 183
Conclusion......Page 186
Notes......Page 187
Introduction......Page 188
Discovering the ‘glitter’ of domestic tourism in Indonesia......Page 191
Misrecognition in West Manggaraian tourism......Page 192
Tourism as an ordering......Page 196
Acknowledgments......Page 199
Notes......Page 200
Introduction......Page 201
To the countryside......Page 202
Communities of foreignness......Page 203
Discussion......Page 211
Acknowledgments......Page 213
Introduction......Page 214
Utilizing stereotypes in the HCMC tourism industry to reconnect broken categories......Page 216
Conclusion......Page 223
Notes......Page 224
Introduction......Page 225
Tourism and mobility studies in China......Page 226
Two ethnographic case studies......Page 227
Thinking about an ‘other’......Page 234
Notes......Page 237
Part IV: Revis(it)ing heritage: Dissonance or harmony?......Page 239
Introduction......Page 241
The centrality of Kashmir in Indian tourism......Page 242
The militancy retraced......Page 244
‘Tourism for peace’......Page 245
Living with the conflict: curtailed mobility in the alley......Page 247
Tourism: an embattled industry......Page 249
Securing the land for the tourists......Page 252
Conclusion......Page 254
Notes......Page 255
Introduction: non-Western tourists, nationalism and the state......Page 257
The monarchy, Thai travel culture, and the ‘gaze toward the North’......Page 259
Domestic tourism in the highlands: from ‘the other within’ to ‘the fancy other’......Page 263
Conclusion......Page 269
Notes......Page 270
Introduction......Page 271
Space, mobility and consumption......Page 273
Cultural heritage and state-building......Page 275
Touring Tibet and other places on the frontier......Page 277
Conclusion......Page 280
Introduction......Page 282
Food and eating in Hong Kong society......Page 283
Domestic tourism in Hong Kong......Page 285
The emergence of gastronomic tourism......Page 286
Travel programs fast forward gastronomic tourism......Page 289
Conclusion......Page 291
Part V: Tourism and new social networks......Page 293
Introduction......Page 295
Obligations to kin: formation of destination and the social unit for travel......Page 298
Travel and the social production of kin: leveraging hospitality/establishing obligations......Page 300
: domestic and international travel differences......Page 301
Financing travel: the roles of children, family and the group......Page 303
Gendered movements: Buddhism and the navigation of tourist space......Page 304
Reciprocity: family tourism as the beginning of a journey......Page 306
Conclusion......Page 308
Introduction......Page 309
Civil society, Chinese backpacking and the Internet......Page 310
A web-based phenomenon......Page 313
Backpacking vocabulary and code of behavior......Page 315
Core values and ethos......Page 317
Conclusion......Page 318
Photography, tourism and modernity......Page 320
Research sites and data collection......Page 322
Reflxive self......Page 323
Encountering otherness......Page 327
Conclusion......Page 331
Anglo-Western centrism and beyond......Page 333
Future directions......Page 339
Notes......Page 343
Bibliography......Page 344
Index......Page 376