Tourism Expansion possibilities

If this project is to be continued into a larger project for multimedia or book form (or indeed quite easily both to maximise its distribution -the multimedia serving as both marketing for the project as well as its own distinct entity) then there are numerous opportunities for its expansion to explore the relationship between tourism and the environment throughout China.  The work could address imagined geographies through depictions of such tourist hot spots as the Great Wall showing them as they really exist away from the standard postcard image kept in the collective consciousnesses of the vast majority of people worldwide.

China is growing signifivantly as a top world tourist destination and so has numerous other locations as well which are rapidly becoming more and more artificial including the cliched depiction of quaint minority groups performing in resorts much like traditonal tourism package holidays in Africa.  This can be seen in places such as the Fengyu cave where it is the Yao people who perform.  See the following link for more information on Fengyu: Landscape and Tourism Exploitation around Fengyu Cave

There are countless other examples which would be suitable for this project because it’s scope is large and the appeal and market is large and significant for this form of project.

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