Tourism, Culture and Development: Hopes, Dreams and Realities in East Indonesia (Tourism and Cultural Change) [Paperback]

Stroma Cole (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: November 15, 2007 | Series: Tourism and Cultural Change (Book 12)

This book provides a holistic, multi-stakeholder picture of the first twenty years of tourism development in a remote region of Eastern Indonesia. It is a rich description of how tourism is intertwined with life in a non-western, marginal community. Based on anthropological methods, this ethnography is about tourism and socio-cultural change, tourists, conflict, globalisation, poverty and powerlessness.

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Although the book is a monograph, it relates clearly and closely to the key ideas about anthropology and globalisation, and therefore is a worthwhile read for the non anthropologist as well as the subject specialist.

About the Author

After studying social anthropology and extensive travel in Indonesia, Stroma Cole started her own tour operating business. For six years she led small groups all over the Indonesian archipelago. Following a period of consultancy with UNESCO and ADB she returned to the UK and took up her post at Buckinghamshire Chilterns University College. Stroma continued to visit the remote Ngadha villages on the island of Flores to study the effects of tourism. She completed her PhD in 2003 and has published extensively. She continues to research tourism in Indonesia and other less economically developed countries. She is chair of Tourism Concern.

Product Details

• Paperback: 264 pages
• Publisher: Channel View Publications (November 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1845410696
• ISBN-13: 978-1845410698
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.8 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #4,278,298 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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