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xxviii, 335 p. ill.: 24 cm. Addresses the changes in domestic tourism in Asia. This book explores the ethos of domestic travel and holiday-making in order to understand the distinctive common strands that underlie conventional and contemporary tourism practices, against the local and global backdrop. Domestic tourism: searching for an Asianic perspective / Shalini Singh -- Zen and the art of tourism maintenance: a meditation on so-called proto-tourism in Vietnam / Victor Alneng -- Cultural solutions to ecological problems in contemporary Japan: heritage tourism in Asuke / Christopher S. Thompson -- Pilgrim culture of Tirtha in India: enculturation of new age movements within age-old rituals / Shalini Singh -- From community to holiday camps: the emergence of a tourist economy in Mongolia / Amartuvshin Dorjsuren -- `Domestic` tourism and its discontents: Han tourists in China`s `little Tibet` / Christopher Vasantkumar -- Year zero! From annihilation to renaissance: domestic tourism in Cambodia / Trevor H.B. Sofield -- Kyrgyz tourism at Lake Issyk-Kul: legacies of pre-communist and Soviet regimes / Nicola J. Palmer -- Indigenous people and domestic visitors of Taiwan / Geoffrey Wall and Janet Chang -- No, we are not `eco-tourists`: hill-walking and eco-tourism in Hong Kong / Chan Yuk Wah and Fung Yip Hing -- Crafting Filipino leisure: tourism programmes in the Philippines / Maria Cherry Lyn S. Rodolfo -- Awaiting attention: profiling the domestic tourism sector in Sri Lanka / Ranjith Ihalanayake -- Film-induced domestic tourism in Singapore: the case of Krrish / Audrey Yue -- Cultivating domestic tourism with global advantage: Malaysia and Singapore compared / Joan C. Henderson -- Holiday-making and the leisure space of the Macao people / Louis Tze Ngai Vong and Cindia Ching-Chi Lam -- Epilogue: domestic tourism in Asia - contexts and directions / John K. Walton. Shalini Singh. Includes bibliographic references and index English Tourism Asia 338.47915 D71 978-1-84407-660-4 251212 20260803094032.0