The Chinese government is making tourism an important rural development strategy. Local
governments and outside developers jointly manage and develop natural and cultural …

This chapter starts with an overall evaluation of resources for marine tourism, then applies
stakeholder theory and other methodological approaches to the analysis of marine tourism …

This study investigated the formation of locals' attitudes toward Chinese tourism to Nha
Trang via a cultural political economy approach. An ethnographic fieldwork was conducted …

Policy-making is concerned with planning for the future and involves hypothesizing about
future circumstances and deciding how to achieve certain goals. A public policy is a …

Tourism policy implementation is examined in this paper using a society-centred, relational
approach. It considers policy within its societal context, including the economy, governance …

Tourism has been incorporated into the national strategy in China since 2009 and tourism
education and training has also been greatly improved in the past few years. However …

With the current rising trends of power decentralization and regional balanced development,
participatory collaboration became an important issue in tourism policymaking. Especially …

Originated and refined in the West, community tourism started to draw Chinese researchers'
attention in the last two decades of the twentieth century. However, there are essential …

As China actively pursues modernization, the tensions among a rigid application of
socialism, the conservatism of tradition, and the demands of economic development …

This paper explores the macro-governance of the growth of China's tourism industry into the
world's largest domestic tourist industry and the fourth largest international destination. It …