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Current Issues in Asian Tourism book cover

1st Edition

Current Issues in Asian Tourism

Edited By Chris Cooper, C. Michael Hall Copyright 2020
266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge

266 Pages
by Routledge
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This comprehensive volume was put together in response to the growing amount of research on tourism in Asia and an increasing number of authors from Asian countries. It concentrates on two aspects of Asian Tourism: first, the Asian tourists themselves, and second, economic development and tourism in the Asian region. The first part of the collection focuses on three areas: the motivations of... Read more
Introduction  Part 1: The Asian Tourist  1. Volunteer tourism motivations of the Marine Conservation Cambodia project  2. Understanding the motivation of museums, galleries and cultural exhibition visits – evidence from Taiwan internet use types  3. Dissecting Chinese adolescents’ overseas educational travel experiences: movements, representations and practices  4. The solo female Asian tourist  5. Social interactions among Asian backpackers: scale development and validation  6. Understanding the distinctiveness of Chinese Post-80s tourists through an exploration of their formative experiences  7. Foreign tourist arrivals in India from major source countries: an empirical analysis  8. Gap time and Chinese tourists: Exploring constraints  9. Negotiation, bargaining, and discounts: generating WoM and local tourism development at the Tabriz bazaar, Iran  Part 2: Economic Development and Tourism in Asia  10. ASEAN beyond talk shop: a rejoinder to regional tourism  11. The economic impact of the lifting of sanctions on tourism in Iran: a computable general equilibrium analysis  12. Revisiting the tourism-growth nexus: evidence from a new index for the market diversification of tourist arrivals  13. Network dynamics of tourism development in South Korea  14. Maintaining competitiveness of aviation hub: Empirical evidence of visitors to China via Hong Kong by air transport  15. Creative tourism in Balinese rural communities

Biography

Chris Cooper is Professor of Tourism at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He has published and edited widely in tourism. He works with international tourism agencies, including the United Nations World Trade Organization, and was awarded the UNWTO Ulysses prize for contributions to tourism policy and education in 2009. He is co-Editor, with C. Michael Hall, of the journal Current Issues in Tourism.



C. Michael Hall is Professor of Marketing in the Department of Management, Marketing & Entrepreneurship at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has longstanding teaching and research interests in tourism and temporary mobility; regional development; environmental history, environmental and climate change and sustainability; and governance, institutions, power and policy making in tourism. He is co-Editor, with Chris Cooper, of the journal Current Issues in Tourism.

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