Tourism border-making: A political economy of China's border tourism

Jun Gao, Chris Ryan, Jenny Cave and Chaozhi Zhang

Annals of Tourism Research, 2019, vol. 76, issue C, 1-13

Abstract: This paper identifies changes in borderland tourism and their bordering consequences on the Daluo-Mongla border in Xishuangbanna, China. It identifies three distinctive phases: (a) phase one (1991–2001)- rapid growth of organized cross-border tourist flow, (b) phase two (2002−2011)- stagnation and collapse of formal tourism sector yet emerging illegal cross-border tourist flow, and (c) phase three (2012-present)- resurrection and transition of border tourism. It illustrates the border-making agency of tourism, arguing tourism development at the border can be viewed as a re-bordering force. It analyzes an evolutionary process of changing power structures, namely a dominant control of local states and market forces, a partial power shift towards national state and border communities, and a new dominance by the Chinese state.

Keywords: Tourism; Bordering; Ethnographic approach; Ethnic minorities (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2019.02.010

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