Tourism paradoxes : contradictions, controversies and challenges /
edited by Erdinç Çakmak, Hazel Tucker and Keith Hollinshead.
- 1 online resource (xvi, 170 pages).
- Tourism and cultural change; 57 .
Includes bibliographies and index.
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.
"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"--