Editors Ryan (tourism, University of Waikato) and Huang (tourism management, University of South Australia) gather Chinese academics in tourism and management to reveal empirical research by Chinese doctoral scholars, which has not been previously available to Western scholars. After an introduction on the role of tourism in China's transition, material is organized in sections on development experiences, policy implementation, destination evolution, and planning. Some specific topics include festival and special event development in modern China, resident perceptions of conference andevents tourism, and tourism at Buddhist shrines on Putuoshan. Annotation c2013 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

Chris Ryan is Professor in Tourism at the University of Waikato and edits the journals Tourism Management and Tourism Management Perspectives. His main research interests are the impacts of tourism, research methods in tourism, tourism management and the environment and tourist behaviour and motives.Songshan (Sam) Huang is Associate Professor at the University of South Australia, Australia. He has been working in the field for over ten years and his research specialties are tourist behaviour, destination marketing, tour guiding and China tourism and hospitality.

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