This study examines how tourism policy has been formulated and operated in China since the 1949 Revolution and how it has affected the development of tourism on the ground (although the most
detailed analysis concerns the period following the 1978 ascension of Deng Xiaoping to power and the transition of tourism away from political-diplomatic purposes towards tourism as economic
activity. Airey (tourism management, U. of Surrey, UK) and Chong (Public Policy Research Institute, Hong Kong Polytechnic U., China) combine analysis of in-depth interviews with government
officials and policy consultants involved in tourism policy with analysis of documentary sources in order to reconstruct the development of tourism policy and its political economy. Annotation
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