Research and Markets: Tourism in Southeast Asia

DUBLIN--()--Research and Markets (http://www.researchandmarkets.com/research/cd29f3/tourism_in_southea) has announced the addition of the "Tourism in Southeast Asia" report to their offering.

Tourism is a long established economic activity in Southeast Asia, dating back to the turn of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, though mass tourism is a relatively recent phenomenon that largely began in the 1970s. The industry grew slowly for decades, but by the 1980s East Asia, Southeast Asia and the Pacific were experiencing the most rapid growth in regional tourism arrivals in the world, averaging 9.2 per cent per annum.

Such was the success of the Visit Thailand Year campaign of 1987 that the various ASEAN government tourism boards agreed to combine forces to promote each successive country in turn, culminating in Visit ASEAN in 1992. By the early 1990s tourist arrivals were predicted to rise at 7 per cent annually until the end of the decade, as compared with a global average of around 4.5 per cent (World Tourism Organization, 1990). Such was the growth in countries like Singapore that local analysts worried that the labour requirements for the hotel, wholesale and retail sectors would not be met and would need to be replenished by migrant workers.

Key points

  • A timely and up-to-date exploration of the state of tourism development in SE Asia.
  • Examines the challenges facing SE Asian tourism at a critical time.
  • A key resource for tourism research and education.

Tourism in Southeast Asia provides an up-to-date exploration of the state of tourism development and associated issues in one of the world's most dynamic tourist destinations. The volume takes a close look at many of the challenges facing Southeast Asian tourism at a critical stage of transition and transformation, and following a recent series of crises and disasters. Building on and advancing the path-breaking Tourism in South-East Asia, produced by the same editors in 1993, this new work adopts a multidisciplinary approach and includes contributions from some of the leading researchers on tourism in Southeast Asia, presenting a number of fresh perspectives.

The volume combines introductory material with an in-depth examination of anthropological writing on Southeast Asian tourism, followed by case studies dealing with issues as diverse as globalization, terrorism, romance tourism and ecotourism.

Key Topics Covered:

  • Tables vi
  • Figures vii
  • Contributors viii
  • 1. Introduction: Tourism in Southeast Asia Revisited
  • 2. Anthropology and Tourism in Southeast Asia: Comparative Studies, Cultural Differentiation and Agency
  • 3. Indonesian Souvenirs as Micro-Monuments to Globalization and Modernity: Hybridization, Deterritorialization and Commodification
  • 4. Terrorism and Tourism in Bali and Southeast Asia
  • 5. From Kebalian to Ajeg Bali: Tourism and Balinese Identity in the Aftermath of the Kuta Bombing
  • 6. Tourism Policy-Making in Southeast Asia: A Twenty-First Century Perspective
  • 7. The Development of Private Tourism Business Activity in the Transitional Vietnamese Economy
  • 8. Tourism in the Lao People's Democratic Republic
  • 9. Southeast Asian Tourism from a Japanese Perspective
  • 10. Cultural and Gender Politics in China-Vietnam Border Tourism
  • 11. Romance and Sex Tourism
  • 12. A Political Ecology of Sustainable Tourism in Southeast Asia
  • 13. New Directions in Indonesian Ecotourism
  • Tables
  • Figures

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Contacts

Research and Markets
Laura Wood, Senior Manager,
press@researchandmarkets.com
U.S. Fax: 646-607-1907
Fax (outside U.S.): +353-1-481-1716