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Tourism border-making: A political economy of China's border tourism

Jun Gao, Chris Ryan, Jenny Cave, Chaozhi Zhang

Annals of Tourism Research, Volume: 76, Pages: 1 - 13

Swansea University Author: Jenny Cave

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Abstract

This paper is the result of 4 years of research which identifies evolutionary processes and developmental impacts upon communities and tourism business within changing power structures at the Chinese/ Myanmar border. The significant contribution it makes to literature is identification of agency con...

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Published in: Annals of Tourism Research
ISSN: 01607383
Published: Elsevier 2019
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URI: https://cronfa.swan.ac.uk/Record/cronfa49028
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Abstract: This paper is the result of 4 years of research which identifies evolutionary processes and developmental impacts upon communities and tourism business within changing power structures at the Chinese/ Myanmar border. The significant contribution it makes to literature is identification of agency contained within tourism development as a force which (de)constructs conceptions of borders between nations but paradoxically is contained in ‘official’ place-making narratives.
Keywords: Tourism, Bordering Ethnography, Ethnic minorities, China, Myanmar
College: Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences
Start Page: 1
End Page: 13