Coastal tourism has grown significantly across South-East Asia from the 1960s, particularly in three key destinations hosting large tourist numbers: Indonesia, Malaysia, and Thailand. It encompasses different scales from basic backpacker accommodation in budget enclaves to large scale capital-intensive luxury resort enclaves. Coastal tourism studies typically range from descriptive analyses of destinations’ evolutionary dynamics and resort morphology to more granular ethnographic inspections of socio-economic patterns of transformation and resource conflicts. More recent critical research theorizes the spatial reorganization of coastal tourism in relation to economic restructuring processes. Although national tourism policy and economic development is often analysed, forces shaping coastal tourism development have been little examined and research typically focusses on impact case studies without analysing the underlying political economy. This paper interrogates the political-economic drivers of the historical-geographical and spatial organization of coastal tourism in these three major destinations and demonstrates how processes of tourism capital accumulation are experienced/contested via intensified commodification leading to increasingly complex and diversified coastal tourism political economies.

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沿海旅游业的动态：东南亚空间变化的驱动因素

自 20 世纪 60 年代以来，整个东南亚的沿海旅游业显着增长，特别是在印度尼西亚、马来西亚和泰国这三个拥有大量游客的主要目的地。它涵盖不同的规模，从经济飞地的基本背包客住宿到大型资本密集型豪华度假村飞地。沿海旅游研究的范围通常包括对目的地演化动态和度假村形态的描述性分析，以及对社会经济转型模式和资源冲突的更细致的民族志考察。最近的批判性研究对与经济结构调整过程相关的沿海旅游业的空间重组进行了理论分析。尽管经常分析国家旅游政策和经济发展，但很少研究影响沿海旅游发展的力量，研究通常侧重于影响案例研究，而不分析潜在的政治经济。本文探讨了这三个主要目的地沿海旅游的历史地理和空间组织的政治经济驱动因素，并论证了旅游资本积累的过程如何通过加剧的商品化而经历/竞争，从而导致日益复杂和多样化的沿海旅游政治经济。