Culture Clash

a tourist getting married in vietnam

Hans van der Broek • Boek • paperback

• Samenvatting
  Hans visits Vietnam as part of a trip around the world for the first time in the early 90th. In ‘Culture Clash’’ you are taken on a journey through this colourful country.
  At his second visit and later as a tour leader working in Vietnam, he will introduce you carefully to the ‘invisible’ characteristics of this country. Not only the seemingly warm but also the dark side of the colonial-, Vietnam War time and the current government influence in daily life.
  When meeting Linh in Saigon and deciding to marry in 2003 they start a tourist business in Hoi An, Central Vietnam. (part 1)
  
  Hoi An, business, storms & corruption in Vietnam (part 2)
  The ‘real face’ of Vietnam.
  
  Collision of perception & leaving Vietnam (part 3)
  Selling the Lighthouse business and cultural differences which are too difficult to bridge makes Hans decide to leave Vietnam and Linh.
  
  About the writer
  Hans van der Broek is an entrepreneur, traveller and writer who let his life guided by the events around him.
  
• Productinformatie
  Binding : Paperback
  Distributievorm : Boek (print, druk)
  Formaat : 184mm x 260mm
  Aantal pagina's : 217
  Uitgeverij : PUMBO
  ISBN : 9789082696905
  Datum publicatie : 04-2017
  
• Inhoudsopgave
  Content:
  
  Page
  
  Front page, Culture Clash, ‘a tourist getting married
  in Vietnam’
  Title page, Culture Clash
  Colophon
  Frontispiece, Hoi An, Vietnam
  Dedicated to Tran Thi Thuy Linh
  Epigraph,
  Content,
  Foreword, 8 & 9
  Preface, 10
  Acknowledgement 11
  Introduction, 12
  Goals, 13
  Prologue, 14
  Part 1, first encounter with Vietnam, 1993 & 1994. 15
  Part 2, Netherlands, 1994 & 1999. 20
  Part 3, second encounter Vietnam world trip 1999. 21
  Part 4, unexpected back to the Netherlands. 23
  Part 5, South America, GR-5, 1999 & 2000, 24
  Part 6, ‘tour leader’ training tour, 2000 & 2001. 25
  Part 7, working in Vietnam and Cambodia, 2001. 67
  Part 8, inconveniences for some guests, 2001. 112
  Part 9, meeting Linh, 2002 & 2003, 121
  Part 10, Netherlands & Vietnam, Hoi An. 133
  Part 11, back again with Linh in Vietnam, 2004. 156
  Part 12, sources & background information. 170
  
  
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