Trevor Sofield

TL;DR: In the South Pacific region, tourism and development: theories and relationships as mentioned in this paper, empowerment and sustainability through village ownership, empowerment at the national level, empowerment and disempowerment at the village level.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors explore the macrogovernance of the growth of China's tourism industry into the world's largest domestic tourist industry and the fourth largest international destination, with a special emphasis on Confucian/Daoist thought, shan shui, feng shui and te-zhi.

TL;DR: The authors explores the power of both traditional culture and modernity, their interaction, and ecotourism as defined and developed in China, and suggests a new framework for ecoteourism policies.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Dragon Boat Festival has been re-shaped and manufactured into an international water sport and the recent trends in its developments reflect the move from an event which has been originally classified as a cultural-based to sports tourism with its unique maintenance of traditional features.

TL;DR: The convergence of sport with tourism is a phenomenon of such recent origin that there is, as yet, no universally accepted definition of sport tourism as mentioned in this paper, and sport was further demarcated in a binary fashion between players and spectators, and sport tourism was reconstituted the conventional binary opposites into "an other" that is more than the sum of two parts, and this is sports tourism.