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1. Shanghai Expo

   An International Forum on the Future of Cities

   Edited by Tim Winter

   Series: CRESC

   In 2010 Shanghai hosted the largest, most spectacular and most expensive expo ever. Attracting a staggering 73 million visitors, and costing around US$45 billion dollars, Shanghai Expo broke the records in the history of world's fairs and universal expositions. With more than half of the world’s...

   Published September 12th 2012 by Routledge
2. Expressions of Cambodia

   The Politics of Tradition, Identity and Change

   Edited by Leakthina Chau-Pech Ollier, Tim Winter

   Series: Routledge Contemporary Southeast Asia Series

   Taking a theoretical and multidisciplinary perspective, the essays in this collection provide compelling insight into contemporary Cambodian culture at home and abroad. The book represents the first sustained exploration of the relationship between cultural productions and practices, the changing...

   Published July 12th 2012 by Routledge
3. Routledge Handbook of Heritage in Asia

   Edited by Patrick Daly, Tim Winter

   This Handbook is the first major volume to examine the conservation of Asia’s culture and nature in relation to the wider social, political and economic forces shaping the region today. Throughout Asia rapid economic and social change means the region’s heritage is at once under threat and...

   Published December 12th 2011 by Routledge
4. Post-Conflict Heritage, Postcolonial Tourism

   Tourism, Politics and Development at Angkor

   By Tim Winter

   Series: Routledge Studies in Asia's Transformations

   Angkor, Cambodia’s only World Heritage Site, is enduring one of the most crucial, turbulent periods in its twelve hundred year history. Given Cambodia’s need to restore its shattered social and physical infrastructures after decades of violent conflict, and with tourism to Angkor increasing by a...

   Published June 22nd 2011 by Routledge
5. Asia on Tour

   Exploring the rise of Asian tourism

   Edited by Tim Winter, Peggy Teo, T.C. Chang

   With the vast majority of academic theory on tourism based on ‘Western’ tourists, Asia on Tour illustrates why the rapid growth of travel for leisure and recreation in Asia demands a reappraisal of how tourism is analyzed and understood. Examining domestic and intra-regional tourism, the book...

   Published September 23rd 2008 by Routledge