Tourism at the Grassroots: Villagers and Visitors in the Asia Pacific (Tourism at the Grassroots)

Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 6
Copyright......Page 7
Contents......Page 8
Figures......Page 13
Maps......Page 14
Tables......Page 15
Contributors......Page 16
Preface and acknowledgements......Page 18
1 Tourism and local people in the Asia-Pacific region......Page 22
2 Another (unintended) legacy of Captain Cook?: The evolution of Rapanui (Easter Island) tourism......Page 62
3 Moderate expectations and benign exploitation: Tourism on the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea......Page 79
4 ‘Everything is truthful here’: Custom village tourism in Tanna, Vanuatu......Page 98
5 The whole nine villages: Local-level development through mass tourism in Tibetan China......Page 119
6 Weapons of the workers: Employees in the Fiji hotel scene......Page 135
7 On the beach: Small-scale tourism in Samoa......Page 152
8 After the bomb in a Balinese village......Page 169
9 Sustainability and security: Lombok hotels' link with local communities......Page 185
10 Priorities, people and preservation: Nature-based tourism at Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam......Page 200
11 Communities on edge: Conflicts over community tourism in Thailand......Page 219
12 Community-based ecotourism in Thailand......Page 235
13 Ecotourism and indigenous communities: The Lower Kinabatangan experience......Page 257
14 Adventures, picnics and nature conservation: Ecotourism in Malaysian national parks......Page 277
15 Marginal people and marginal places?......Page 295
Index......Page 304