1st Edition

Tourism, Heritage and National Culture in Java Dilemmas of a Local Community

By Heidi Dahles Copyright 2002
257 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

284 Pages
by Routledge

Based on anthropological fieldwork in the 1990s, this book provides an ethnographic perspective in its examination of the politics and policies of cultural tourism as they were played out under the Indonesian New Order regime. The successful New Order tourism policy ensured that tourism development both contributed to, and benefited from, increasing economic prosperity and a long stretch of... Read more
Chapter 1 Tourism, Politics and the Paradox of Culture; Chapter 2 The Politics of Tourism in Indonesia; Chapter 3 Pancasila Tourism in the Heart of Central Java; Chapter 4 Prominent Players in Yogyakarta's Tourism Arena; Chapter 5 The Politics of Guiding; Chapter 6 Blurring the Boundaries; Chapter 7 Local Identity and National Culture; Chapter 8 Epilogue;

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Authored by Dahles, Heidi