Asian Cultures and Contemporary Tourism (Perspectives On Asian Tourism)

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Synopsis
Brings together different perspectives to understand cultures that underpin contemporary Asian tourist behaviours.

Offers tourism researchers, students and practitioners a consolidated, comprehensive and updated reference for the understanding of Asian tourists.

Provides an intellectual platform for Asian scholars to represent the voices of Asian tourists in their own cultural terms.

This book focuses on cultures that shape contemporary Asian tourist experiences. The book consists of 10 chapters, which are organised into two themes: Collectivist Culture and Wellbeing. The chapters cover emerging forms of tourism (e.g., wedding and bridal photography tourism, roots/affinity tourism and shamanic tourism), investigate a wide range of topics (e.g., tourist motivation, tourist anxiety and decision making) and consider Asian perspectives from diverse backgrounds (e.g., China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, and Nepal). The book provides tourism researchers, students and practitioners a consolidated, comprehensive and updated reference for the understanding of Asian tourists.

Copyright:
2018

Book Details

Book Quality:
Publisher Quality
ISBN-13:
9789811079801
Publisher:
Springer Singapore, Singapore
Date of Addition:
Copyrighted By:
Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
Adult content:
No
Language:
English
Has Image Descriptions:
No
Categories:
Nonfiction, Travel, Business and Finance, Social Studies
Submitted By:
Bookshare Staff
Usage Restrictions:
This is a copyrighted book.

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