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Title Tourism paradoxes : contradictions, controversies and challenges / edited by Erdinç Çakmak, Hazel Tucker and Keith Hollinshead.

Publication Info. Bristol ; Blue Ridge Summit, PA : Channel View Publications, [2021]

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 170 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
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Series Tourism and cultural change ; 57
Tourism and cultural change ; 57.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction: Tourism paradoxes: contradictions, controversies and challenges -- The paradox of modernity: Power, identity and tourism in rural Cyprus -- Go West! Overcoming the paradoxes of Kinh tourism in Vietnamese mountains, a postcolonial geography -- The 'Logical Paradox' of preservation via change: The touristic potential of Malaysia's Catholic mission schools -- Empowering package tour travellers by disempowering tourism operators? Assessing the effectiveness of the tourism law of China -- Cross-cultural encounter: Sustaining racial prejudice or prompting reflection? -- Contemporary polemics of Chinese outbound tourism to Europe: Paradoxes, inconsistencies and contradictions -- The international tourism academia: A paradoxical challenge -- The call for 'Dynamic Genesis' (after Deleuze) in tourism studies -- Afterword: Reflections on paradoxes in understanding, culture, mobility, and tourism.
Summary "At a time when COVID-19 is transforming the tourism industry, this book presents many contemporary inconsistencies and paradoxes in tourism contexts and studies. It offers a reconsideration of what may be needed in order to equip researchers and practitioners in tourism and related fields to better interpret and manage the future of tourism"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Tourism.
Tourism.
Added Author Çakmak, Erdinç, editor.
Tucker, Hazel, 1965- editor.
Hollinshead, Keith, editor.
Other Form: Print version: Tourism paradoxes Blue Ridge Summit : Channel View Publications, 2021. 9781845418113 (DLC) 2020036900
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