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Post-Colonial Macau: hope and despair in a World Centre of Tourism and Leisure

Michael O'Regan

Via Tourism Review, Issue: 16

Swansea University Author: Michael O'Regan

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DOI (Published version): 10.4000/viatourism.4469

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The expansion of casino concessions and subsequent growth of employment and gross domestic product (GDP) per Capita in Macau after the 1999 handover from Portugal created an illusion of prosperity in a post-colonial territory of less than 30 sq. km. A Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the Peopl...

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ISSN: 2259-924X
Published: OpenEdition 2019
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