Political implications of Chinese tourism policy |
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Authors: | Linda K Richter |
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Institution: | Department of Political Science Kansas State University, USA |
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Abstract: | This study is an examination of the political objectives and probable consequences of the decision to open the People's Republic of China to mass tourism. Through personal interviews and other reports, this article traces the organizational and political dimensions of the abrupt reversal of nearly three decades of restricted and selective foreign access. The author found several anomalies: more “market” oriented cost structure than in most non- socialist developing nations; a hierarchy of tourist classes in a supposedly classless society; liberalization in tourism itineraries along with a freezing of contacts between tourist and Chinese. The article concludes that while China has reaped few tangible political benefits and has incurred some new political vulnerability with its new tourism policy, Chinese tourism has avoided many of the social and economic costs associated with tourism development elsewhere. |
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Keywords: | Great Leap Forward Gang of Four Four Modernizations enclave tourism relative deprivation le Grand Bond en Avance la Bande des Quatre les Quatre Modernisations le tourisme des enclaves la déprivation relative |
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