John (University of Sydney, Australia) Connell & Barbara (University of New England, Australia) Rugendyke 
Tourism at the Grassroots [EPUB ebook] 
Villagers and Visitors in the Asia-Pacific

In two regions where tourism is of considerable economic importance, eastern Asia and the Pacific, there have been remarkably few studies of the impacts of tourism in rural areas. Moreover, the shift towards ecotourism, touted as a more environmentally benign form of tourism, has extended the reach of tourism into more remote and fragile envir