Tourism and China's development : policies, regional economic growth and ecotourism

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Tourism and China's development : policies, regional economic growth and ecotourism

Julie Jie Wen, Clement A. Tisdell

World Scientific, c2001

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Bibliography: p. 326-359

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Description and Table of Contents

Description

China's continuing economic reforms since 1978 have substantially altered its economic structure, expanding the service sector, including the tourist industry. The reforms have resulted in spectacular economic growth and a boom in tourism development. But China's economic growth has been very uneven regionally and has been cause for political concern. The ability of tourism to counteract this uneven development and promote regionally decentralised development is therefore of special interest as is the sustainability of regional tourism, which often depends on nature conservation and the presence of minority cultures. This book addresses all those issues. Although focussed on China, it deals with issues such as those involving the sustainability of tourism, and convergence and divergence in regional tourism development and economic growth relevant to other geographical areas.

Table of Contents

  • Tourism, economic growth and sustainable development
  • tourism development and changing policies in China - an overview
  • regional economic disparity and tourism development - theories and the Chinese case
  • spatial distribution of tourism in China - its nature, determinants and consequences
  • trends in the regional distribution of tourism in China and their implications
  • ecotourism - its nature, sustainability and other issues
  • evaluating resources for ecotourism, particularly in China
  • tourism development in Yunnan - a case study
  • unbalanced growth, growth pole theory and tourism development
  • identifying whether tourism is a leading sector or growth pole - application of I-O analysis
  • China's tourism development in retrospect and prospect.

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Details

  • NCID
    BA55485117
  • ISBN
    • 9810244339
  • Country Code
    si
  • Title Language Code
    eng
  • Text Language Code
    eng
  • Place of Publication
    Singapore ; New Jersey
  • Pages/Volumes
    xxvi, 393 p.
  • Size
    22 cm
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