URBANIZATION AND TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA

URBANIZATION AND TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA

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CONTENTS

FOREWORD

PREFACE

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

Chapter 1: INTRODUCTION

1.1. GLOBAL URBANIZATION

1.2. URBANIZATION IN CHINA

1.3. URBANIZATION IN GUANGDONG

Chapter 2: TOURISM AND HOTEL DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA

2.1. HISTORICAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA

2.2. HISTORICAL HOTEL DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA

2.2.1. China’s Hotel Rating System

2.2.2. Factors Affecting Hotel Development in China

2.3. HISTORICAL TOURISM DEVELOPMENTIN GUANGDONG

2.4. HISTORICAL HOTEL DEVELOPMENT IN GUANGDONG

2.5. REGIONAL INEQUALITIES

Chapter 3: URBANIZATION AND MEASUREMENT IN CHINA

3.1. URBANIZATION RELATED CONCEPTS AND THEORIES

Modernization Theory

Dependency Theory

Urban Bias Theory

3.2. DEFINING URBANIZATION

3.3. MEASUREMENT OF URBANIZATION

3.4. URBANIZATION DEVELOPMENT IN CHINA

3.5. URBANIZATION MEASUREMENT IN CHINA

Chapter 4: URBANIZATION AND TOURISM RELATIONSHIP IN CHINA

4.1. URBANIZATION AND TOURISM AND HOTEL DEVELOPMENT

4.2. URBANIZATION EFFECT ON TOURISM AND HOTEL DEVELOPMENT

Chapter 5: CASE STUDY

AN EXPLORATORY COMPARISON OF STAR-RATED HOTEL DEVELOPMENT FROM THE URBANIZATION PERSPECTIVE IN CHINA: UPSCALE VERSUS ECONOMY AND MIDSCALE HOTELS

ABSTRACT

1. INTRODUCTION

2. LITERATURE REVIEW

2.1. Hotel Development in China

2.2. Urbanization Measurement Issues

3. METHOD

4. DATA ANALYSIS AND RESULTS

5. DISCUSSION AND CONCLUSION

6. LIMITATIONS AND FUTURE RESEARCH

Appendices

FIVE-YEAR PLANS OF THE PEOPLE’S REPUBLIC OF CHINA

REFERENCES

ABOUT THE AUTHOR

INDEX

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