Asia on Tour

<p>With the vast majority of academic theory on tourism based on ‘Western’ tourists <em>Asia on Tour</em> illustrates why the rapid growth of travel for leisure and recreation in Asia demands a reappraisal of how tourism is analyzed and understood. Examining domestic and intra-regional tourism the book reveals how improvements in infrastructures ever increasing disposable incomes liberalized economies the inter-connectivities of globalization and the lowering of borders both physical and political are now enabling millions of Asians to travel as tourists. Drawing upon multidisciplinary theoretical perspectives and up-to-date empirical research the twenty-three accessible essays in this volume indicate why a rigorous and critical study of Asian tourism must become integral to both our analysis of this rapidly transforming region and our interpretation of global tourism in the twenty first century. </p><p>As a rich collection of essays on heritage and tourism oriented around Asian tourists <em>Asia on Tour</em> will be of particular interest to students and scholars working in the fields of tourism Asian studies geography heritage anthropology development sociology and cultural and postcolonial studies.</p>