Conceptualising responsible rural tourism in Asia / Vikneswaran Nair, Ghazali Musa & Amran Hamzah -- Responsible rural tourism in Bhutan : aligning gross national happiness with the Cape Town principles / Sarah Schiffling, Chris Phelan & Karma Pema Loday -- Crown Cave, Guilin : a Chinese perspective on responsible rural tourism / Trevor H.B. Sofield & Fung Mei Sarah Li -- Responsible rural tourism in Japan's tea villages / Lee Jolliffe & Moe Nakashima -- Community garden experience during the off-peak tourism rainy season at Hoi An Heritage Town, Vietnam / Thu Thi Trinh -- Responsible rural tourism initiatives and local community development in Kerala, India / Anu Treesa George, Terry DeLacy & Min Jiang -- Linking responsible rural tourism to agritourism in the Philippines : a case study of Costales Nature Farms / Miguela M. Mena & Charmielyn C. Sy -- Is community-based tourism a tool for the sustainability of the local community and the local economy? The case of Coruh Valley, Turkey / Sıla Karacaoğlu & Medet Yolal -- Community characteristics, social cohesion and the success of community-based tourism : case studies of Vietnam / Tramy Ngo & Nguyen Thi Huyen -- Conversations with the local champions of Miso Walai Homestay : responsible tourism in practice / Amran Hamzah -- 'MlupBaitong' : a pioneer in responsible rural tourism in Cambodia / Trevor H.B. Sofield -- Can tourism be a success story? Stakeholders' management and narratives of rural tourism. Reflexive analysis of a tourism project in Timor Leste / Frederic Bouchon -- The constructs of responsible rural tourism governance for Belum-Temengor Forest Reserve, Malaysia / Joo-Ee Gan & Vikneswaran Nair -- The quest for an essentially Asian form of rural tourism / Amran Hamzah, Vikneswaran Nair & Ghazali Musa.