Tourism Paradoxes

Erdinç Çakmak is a Senior Fellow at the Academy of Tourism, Breda University of Applied Sciences, the Netherlands. His research interests include informal economies, tourism sociology, power relations in tourism, conflict-ridden destinations.Hazel Tucker is a Professor in the Department of Tourism, University of Otago, New Zealand. Her research interests include the advancement of critical interpretative methodologies and theory regarding tourism’s influence on sociocultural identities, relationships and change.Keith Hollinshead is a Distinguished Professor for the International Tourism Studies Association. His research interests include soft science and advanced qualitative research methods, transdisciplinary studies, public culture and cultural heritage.

This innovative, timely text is essential reading for students and researchers seeking to comprehend the controversial, complex and messy nature of tourism. The editors deserve high praise for their courage and foresight in bringing together a diverse range of knowledgeable contributors to produce this valuable, thought-provoking, and erudite volume.

• Figures and TablesContributorsAcknowledgementsForeword by Erik CohenChapter 1. Erdinç Çakmak, Hazel Tucker and Keith Hollinshead: Introduction: Tourism Paradoxes – Contradictions, Controversies and ChallengesChapter 2. Evi Eftychiou: The Paradox of Modernity: Power, Identity and Tourism in Rural CyprusChapter 3. Emmanuelle Peyvel:  Go West! Overcoming the Paradoxes of Kinh Tourism in Vietnamese Mountains: A Postcolonial GeographyChapter 4. Keith Kay Hin Tan and Paolo Mura: The 'Logical Paradox' of Preservation via Change: The Touristic Potential of Malaysia's Catholic Mission SchoolsChapter 5. Nan Chen, Kevin Burns and Jing Wang: Empowering Package Tour Travellers by Disempowering Tourism Operators? – Assessing the Effectiveness of the Tourism Law of ChinaChapter 6. Man Tat Cheng: Cross-cultural Encounter: Sustaining Racial Prejudice or Prompting Reflection?Chapter 7. Rose de Vrieze-McBean: Contemporary Polemics of Chinese Outbound Tourism to Europe: Paradoxes, Inconsistencies and ContradictionsChapter 8: Vincent Platenkamp: International Tourism Academia: A Paradoxical ChallengeChapter 9. Keith Hollinshead, Rukeya Suleman, Sisi Wang, Bipi Nair and Alfred Vellah: The Call for ‘Dynamic Genesis’ (after Deleuze) in Tourism StudiesChapter 10. Erdinç Çakmak, Keith Hollinshead and Hazel Tucker: Afterword: Reflections on Paradoxes in Understanding, Culture, Mobility, and TourismIndex