5 Empowering Package Tour Travellers by Disempowering Tourism Operators? Assessing the Effectiveness of the Tourism Law of China

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Figures and Tables vii
4. Contributors ix
5. Acknowledgements xiii
6. Foreword xv
7. 1 Introduction: Tourism Paradoxes – Contradictions, Controversies and Challenges 1
8. 2 The Paradox of Modernity: Power, Identity and Tourism in Rural Cyprus 15
9. 3 Go West! Overcoming the Paradoxes of Kinh Tourism in the Vietnamese Mountains: A Postcolonial Geography 33
10. 4 The ‘Logical Paradox’ of Preservation via Change: The Touristic Potential of Malaysia’s Catholic Mission Schools 50
11. 5 Empowering Package Tour Travellers by Disempowering Tourism Operators? Assessing the Effectiveness of the Tourism Law of China 74
12. 6 Cross-cultural Encounter: Sustaining Racial Prejudice or Prompting Reflection? 97
13. 7 Contemporary Polemics of Chinese Outbound Tourism to Europe: Paradoxes, Inconsistencies and Contradictions 114
14. 8 International Tourism Academia: A Paradoxical Challenge 128
15. 9 The Call for ‘Dynamic Genesis’ (after Deleuze) in Tourism Studies 145
16. 10 Afterword: Reflections on Paradoxes in Understanding, Culture, Mobility, and Tourism 159
17. Index 165