List of figures ................................................ ix
List of plates .................................................. x
List of tables ................................................. xi
List of boxes and cases ...................................... xiii
Notes on contributors ......................................... xiv
Acknowledgements ............................................. xvii
List of abbreviations and acronyms .......................... xviii
PART 1.
Introduction: region and context ................................ 1
1 Introduction: tourism in Asia: region and context ............ 3
C. Michael Hall & Stephen J. Page
2 Heritage diplomacy and tourism in Asia ...................... 25
Tim Winter
3 Transport and infrastructure issues in Asian tourism ........ 34
David Timothy Duval & Adam Weaver
4 Human resource and labour issues in Asian tourism ........... 45
Lisa Ruhanen & Chris Cooper
5 Tourism policies and politics in Asia ....................... 57
C. Michael Hall & Wantanee Suntikul
6 Tourism and environmental change in Asia .................... 72
C. Midhael Hall
7 Tourism, and socio-cultural change and issues ............... 92
Paolo Mura
8 Poverty in tourist paradise? A review of pro-poor tourism
in South and South-East Asia ............................... 101
V. Dao Truong, Elmarie Slabhert & V. Manh Nguyen
PART 2.
Tourism in South-East Asia .................................... 119
9 Tourism in South-east Asia ................................. 121
C. Michael Hall & Stephen J. Page
10 Singapore tourism .......................................... 139
Т.C. Chang
11 Tourism in Thailand: growth, diversification and political
upheaval ................................................... 149
Nick Kontogeorgopoulos
12 Tourism in Malaysia ........................................ 164
Ghazali Musa & Thinaranjeney Thirumoorthi
13 Tourism in Indonesia ....................................... 181
Mark P. Hampton & Julian Clifton
14 The evolution of tourism policy in Vietnam, 1960—2015 ...... 191
V. Dao Truong & Anh Le
15 Visiting oppressive states: tourism in Laos, Cambodia and
Myanmar .................................................... 205
Andrea Valentin & Daniela Schilcher
PART 3. Tourism in South and Central Asia ..................... 221
16 Developing tourism in South and Central Asia:
introduction ............................................... 223
C. Michael Hall & Stephen J. Page
17 Tourism in India: development, performance and prospects ... 241
Girish Prayag & Subhajit Das
18 Tourism in Sri Lanka ....................................... 251
Sriyantha Fernando, Jayatilleke S. Bandara &
Christine Smith
19 The Maldives: parallel paths of conventional and
alternative tourism ........................................ 265
Aisliath Shakeela & David Weaver
20 Tourism in Central Asia .................................... 275
Kemal Kantarci, Muzaffer Uysal, Vincent Magnini & Murat
Alper Başaran
21 Tourism in Bhutan and Nepal ................................ 287
Sanjay Nepal & Heidi Karst
PART 4. Tourism in East and North-East Asia ................... 299
22 Tourism in East and North East Asia: introduction .......... 301
C. Michael Hall & Stephen J. Page
23 China: a growth engine for world tourism ................... 308
Alan A. Lew & Zhifei Li
24 Tourism and the "other Chinas": Hong Kong, Macao and
Taiwan ..................................................... 324
Wantanee Suntikul
25 Tourism in Mongolia ........................................ 337
Dallen J. Timothy
26 Tourism in South and North Korea ........................... 347
Timothy Jeonglyeol Lee
27 Paradigm shift in the 21st century? Tourism in Japan ....... 361
Carolin Funck
PART 5. Conclusion ............................................ 373
28 Conclusion: prospects for tourism in Asia .................. 375
C. Michael Hall & Stephen J. Page
Index ......................................................... 387
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