Contemporary Perspectives on China Tourism

<p><em>Contemporary Perspectives on China Tourism</em> is an innovative and engaging collection which presents unique approaches and critical insights into the policy development and management practices of tourism and hospitality in modern China.</p><p>This volume consists of nine independent research reports overarching the consequences of tourism from economic sociocultural community and humanistic perspectives. The book addresses generic issues such as tourism demand mega events leisure tourist experience cultural representation community development and quality of life through tourism as well as strategies and techniques specific to the tourism and hospitality industries.</p><p><em>Contemporary Perspectives on China Tourism</em> draws on methodological traditions of anthropology business communication and media studies geography linguistics and literature sociology and critical tourism studies.</p><p>Seven of the nine chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue on Methodological Innovations in China Tourism Research of the <em>Journal of China Tourism Research.</em></p>