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Migration, Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand: Highlanders in the City book cover

1st Edition

Migration, Micro-Business and Tourism in Thailand Highlanders in the City

By Alexander Trupp Copyright 2017
168 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

168 Pages 12 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge
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Visitors to Thailand’s urban and beach-sided tourist hotspots notice the presence of colourful and predominantly female vendors offering self-made and mass-manufactured products. A high percentage of these vendors are members of the highland ethnic minority group of Akha who have become micro-entrepreneurs or self-employed street vendors. The work and everyday life experiences of these ethnic... Read more

1. Ethnic Minorities and Street Vendors in Thailand’s Tourist Areas

2. Conceptual Foundations and Methodology

3. Thailand and the Ethnic Minority Context

4. Ethnic Tourism and the Evolvement of Micro-Businesses in Urban Contexts

5. Opportunities and Constraints

6. Differences within: Migration, Vending, and Gender

7 Social Dimensions of Economic Action

8. Strategies and Dilemmas in the Field of Urban Souvenir Businesses

Biography

Alexander Trupp is a Senior Lecturer at the School of Tourism and Hospitality Management at the University of South Pacific, Fiji; a former lecturer at the Institute for Population and Social Research at Mahidol University, Thailand, and editor-in-chief of the Austrian Journal of South-East Asian Studies. He obtained his PhD in Theoretical and Applied Geography at the University of Vienna, Austria.

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