Tourism at the grassroots : villagers and visitors in the Asia-Pacific / edited by John Connell and Barbara Rugendyke.

Includes references to New Zealand and the Pacific.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Tourism and local people in the Asia-Pacific region / John Connell and Barbara Rugendyke. The tourist area life cycle. On the edge of the tourist industry. Tourism as transformation. The complexities of culture. New directions -- 2. Another (unintended) legacy of Captain Cook?: the evolution of Rapanui (Easter Island) tourism / Grant McCall. Contact and colonial history as tourism narrative: visitors and souvenirs. Rapanui curbed and curtailed: the island of innocent inmates. Turning disadvantage to advantage. Towards the modern era. Autonomous futures in modernity -- 3. Moderate expectations and benign exploitation : tourism on the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea / Eric Kline Silverman. Introduction: the obvious. Sepik tourism. A different sort of moral evaluation. Dialogues with the wider world. The economics of tourist art. The rise of the individual. Tourist art and identity. Anxiety and cognition. A traditional hybridity. Rediscovering and reinventing culture. Local resistance. Conclusion -- 4. 'Everything is truthful here' : custom village tourism in Tanna, Vanuatu / Prue Robinson and John Connell. Vanuatu. Tourism operators. Villages and villagers. Tourists. Within the village. Conclusion -- 5. The whole nine villages : local-level development through mass tourism in Tibetan China / Kelly Dombroski. Jiuzhaigou Biosphere Reserve. Village wellbeing and tourism. Special conditions of tourism and governance in Jiuzhaigou. Attitudes and skills of local entrepreneurs. Policies of local government. Conclusion -- 6. Weapons of the workers : employees in the Fiji hotel scene / Yoko Kanemasu. Introduction: touristic representation and ideology. Voices of the subordinate: workers' response. Institutionalism of amiability. Inequity of power. Popular response: dynamics of hegemonic rule. Conclusion -- 7. On the beach : small-scale tourism in Samoa / Regina Scheyvens. Is small beautiful in the tourism sector?. The nature of tourism development in Samoa. Contribution of beach fale tourism to local development. The undervaluation of beach fale tourism. Conclusion -- 8. After the bomb in a Balinese village / Susan Tarplee. Vulnerability and tourism. Bali and tourism. Tegaljadi and tourism. Individual experiences of the tourism decline in Tegaljadi. Safety nets. 'Just waiting around for something to change' - economic vulnerability and tourism. Attitudes towards tourism (before and) after the bombings. The importance of diversity -- 9. Sustainability and security : Lombok hotels' link with local communities / Fleur Fallon. Lombok in context. Key issues in tourism employment. Need for local community participation. Tourism employment on Lombok. The informal sector. Links with the local community. Conclusion -- 10. Priorities, people and preservation : nature-based tourism at Cuc Phuong National Park, Vietnam / Barbara Rugendyke & Nguyen Thi Son. Prioritising conservation. Cuc Phuong National Park. The visitors. Villagers. Prioritising people? -- 11. Communities on edge : conflicts over community tourism in Thailand / Tim Wong. The business of parks and the role of local people. Park ideology in Thailand: territorialisation and excluding local people. A history of Khao Yai - tourism and growing state control over local affairs. Livelihoods, transition and tourism at the local level. New forms of resource conflicts. Conclusion -- 12. Community-based ecotourism in Thailand / Anucha Leksakundilok and Philip Hirsch. Ecotourism as an alternative and the move towards CBET 215. From mainstream to community-based ecotourism in Thailand. Four case studies of community-based ecotourism. Environment, society and economy in community-based ecotourism. Conclusion: inventing tradition and claiming resources -- 13. Ecotourism and indigenous communities : the Lower Kinabatangan experience / Rajanathan Rajaratnam ... [et al.]. The sanctuary and its environs. The people of the Kinabatangan. Nature tourism in the Lower Kinabatangan. The sanctuary: friend of foe. Red Ape Encounters and Adventures: a community-based orang-utan ecotourism project. Conclusion -- 14. Adventures, picnics and nature conservation : ecotourism in Malaysian national parks / Norman Backhaus. Tourism in protected areas. National parks and impacts of tourism in Malaysia. Forms of tourism in Malaysian national parks. A world heritage site: Gunung Mulu National Park. Conclusion -- 15. Marginal people and marginal places? / Barbara Rugendyke and John Connell. With the tourists. Local participation. Onwards and outwards -- --

1. Tourism and local people in the Asia-Pacific region / John Connell and Barbara Rugendyke -- 2. Another (unintended) legacy of Captain Cook?: the evolution of Rapanui (Easter Island) tourism / Grant McCall -- 3. Moderate expectations and benign exploitation: tourism on the Sepik River, Papua New Guinea / Eric Kline Silverman -- 4. 'Everything is truthful here': custom village tourism in Tanna, Vanuatu / Prue Robinson and John Connell -- 5. The whole nine villages: local-level development through mass tourism in Tibetan China / Kelly Dombroski -- 6. Weapons of the workers: employees in the Fiji hotel scene / Yoko Kanemasu -- 7. On the beach: small-scale tourism in Samoa / Regina Scheyvens -- 8. After the bomb in a Balinese village / Susan Tarplee -- 9. Sustainability and security: Lombok hotels' link with local communities / Fleur Fallon -- 10. Priorities, people and preservation: nature-based tourism at Cue Phuong National Park, Vietnam / Barbara Rugendyke and Nguyen Thi Son -- 11. Communities on edge: conflicts over community tourism in Thailand / Tim Wong -- 12. Community-based ecotourism in Thailand / Anucha Leksakundilok and Philip Hirsch -- 13. Ecotourism and indigenous communities: the Lower Kinabatangan experience / Rajanathan Rajaratnam, Caroline Pang and Isabelle Lackman-Ancrenaz -- 14. Adventures, picnics and nature conservation: ecotourism in Malaysian national parks / Norman Backhaus -- 15. Marginal people and marginal places? / Barbara Rugendyke and John Connell.

Machine converted from AACR2 source record.