Tourism, Culture and Development: Hopes, Dreams and Realities in East Indonesia (Tourism and Cultural Change, 12)

Cole, Dr. Stroma

ISBN 10: 1845410696 / ISBN 13: 9781845410698

Published by Channel View Publications, 2007

Seller Inventory # E-9781845410698-6-2

Synopsis:

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.

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.

Bibliographic Details

Title: Tourism, Culture and Development: Hopes, ...
Publisher: Channel View Publications
Publication Date: 2007
Binding: Soft cover
Condition: Very good