Where Asia Smiles: An Ethnography of Philippine Tourism

by Sally Ann Ness

Book Overview

Where Asia Smiles offers an understanding of tourism and its cultural consequences that is neither a lament at the arrival of tourists nor an endorsement of the industry as a blanket resolution of social ills in "underdeveloped" places. Examining the relationship of tourism to cultural identity and practice in Davao City, Mindanao, Philippines, Sally Ness observes and documents what is at stake for various actors who have entirely different...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812218264
• ISBN13: 9780812218268
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Length: 328 Pages
• Weight: 1.18 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.5" x 9.9"