Tourism in Sout-East Asia, Routledge, new cover

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On the 3rd April 2019 ‘Tourism in South-East Asia’ was re-launched at ICCE in Goldsmiths, University of London. It was originally published in1993 and was edited by Michael Hitchcock (centre) , Victor T. King and Michael J.G. Parnwell (to the right). Based on conference papers presented at the former Hull Polytechnic in 1991 under the auspices of the Association of South-East Asian Stdudies in the UK (ASEASUK), the conference was hosted by the Centre for South-East Asian Studies at the University of Hull.

Tourism in Sout-East Asia, Routledge, original cover

The research work of the Hull contributors had been supported by the British Academy’s Committee for South-East Asian Studies. Michael Hitchcock explained why this group of papers, originally aired in an obscure northern polytechnic that no longer exists, proved to be so enduring and influential. In particular it was one of the first multi-disciplinary books to treat tourism as a subject for analysis as opposed to a manual on ‘how-to-do’ that has moreover the distinction of being the first work of this kind set in an Asian context.