1st Edition
Routledge Handbook of Tea Tourism
The Routledge Handbook of Tea Tourism provides comprehensive and cutting-edge insights into global tea tourism. With contributions from leading scholars and experts across 19 countries, it demonstrates the interdisciplinary nature and breadth of topics associated with global tea tourism.
Tea is deeply connected to tourism through both travel and consumption. For host communities it provides an opportunity for diversification from the production and/or serving of tea while sharing cultural traditions and improving livelihoods. The Handbook is organised into five parts, with an introduction and epilogue, and the first part begins with an overview of historical and contemporary perspectives on the foundations of tea tourism. It digs into the roots of such tourism in China, the relationship of wild tea to indigenous tourism in Vietnam, heritage railways to tea tourism, and tea tourism in Africa. The second part examines sustainable tea tourism, with examples from Thailand, Turkey, Sri Lanka and India. The third part explores the management and marketing of tea tourism, highlighting tools and techniques for development and the impact of social media on the tea tourism experience. It draws on examples of tea tourism experience in diverse settings, such as the English tea room, a pearl milk tourism factory in Taiwan and a hot spring tea destination in Japan. The fourth part provides perspectives on innovation and practice in tea tourism, such as gastronomical tea tourism in Turkey, Japan and Thailand; tea cafés and community diversification in Japan; the role of GIAHS designation in tea tourism; and tea tour guiding in Iran. Finally, the fifth part provides insights on resilience in tea tourism, examining topics such as human-wildlife conflicts and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on the sector in both Asia and Europe.
This Handbook provides a valuable resource for students and researchers, presenting a rich collection of theoretical and empirical insights, an agenda for future directions in the field and end-of-chapter discussion questions. It also serves as a useful tool for key stakeholders, aiming to increase interaction between academia and industry, encouraging the development of sustainable responsible tea tourism that benefits local communities on a global basis.
List of Contributors
List of Boxes
List of Figures
List of Tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Lee Jolliffe and MSM Aslam
PART I
Foundations of tea tourism
- Ancient origins of tea tourism
- Tea tourism and route heritage: Nakeli village on China's Ancient Tea Horse Road
- Tea and spiritual travel: Panchen Tuo tea
- Wild tea and indigenous tourism: a case from Vietnam
- The heritage railway and tea tourism: The case of Senzu, Japan
- Cultural heritage and tourism: Friesland tea
- Recognition of the cultural heritage of tea: An international perspective
- Teaics as a knowledge resource for tea tourism
- Tea tourism in the global south: An African perspective
- Integrated management of community-based tea tourism: Value through symbiosis
- Tea community culture and tourism: The case of Turkey
- Hospitality and tea: Taking tea culture to the next level
- Homestay in small tea gardens: The case of Meghalaya, India
- Line rooms: An authentic approach to heritage tea tourism
- Employment issues in tea tourism: A way forward
- Service quality in an English tea room: A picture is worth a thousand words
- Tea factory tourism experiences: Pearl milk tea in Taiwan
- Facilitating tea stories on Instagram during the COVID-19 pandemic
- Cultivating sense of place: Sabah tea experience in Malaysian Borneo
- Perceptions of tea tourism value and its impact on destination attractiveness
- Revitalizing a region using tea tourism: The case of Umegashima, Japan
- Linking tea, tourism, and community using Porter’s Diamond model
- Marketing Green Tea Tourism Destinations
- Gastronomy and tea tourism: Tea-oriented gastronomy tours in Rize, Turkey
- International exchanges and gastronomical tea tourism
- Tea cafés and community diversification
- Tea tourism promotion in Globally Important Agricultural Heritage Systems (GIAHS)
- Exploring the value creation process in the Japanese black tea market and tourism
- Tea tourism and tea tour guiding: The case of Iran
- Resilience through tea tourism: a tea region case from India
- Human wildlife interactions in tea tourism: the Dooars in India
- A resilient tea destination: the Azores archipelago
Libo Yan and Kunbing Xiao
Gary Sigley
Li Jianming, Min (Lucy) Zhang and Yanting Gu
Cuong Duc Hoa Nguyen and Mai Chi Nguyen
Amnaj Khaokhrueamuang, Akari Takeguchi, Kohei Nagaoka and Koichi Kimura
Lysbeth Vink, Annette Kappert and Hartwig Bohne
Hilary du Cros
Brian Park
Lebogang Matholwane Mathole, Unathi Sonwabile Henama, Lehlohonolo Gibson Mokoena and Madiseng Messiah Phori
PART II
Sustainability in tea tourism
Bussaba Sitikarn, Athitaya Pathan, and Kannapat Kankaew
Kadir Çetin and Emre Erbaş
J.A.R.C. Sandaruwani, G.V.H. Dinusha and R.S.S.W. Arachchi
Evarisa M. Nengnong and Saurabh Kumar Dixit
G.V.H. Dinusha, J.A.R.C. Sandaruwani and R.S.S.W. Arachchi
P. Gayathri, D.A.C. Suranga Silva, Krishantha Ganeshan, Bhagya Erathna, Yasas
Kulasekara and Theeshakya Weerakotuwa
Part III
Management and marketing of tea tourism
Belinda Davenport
Nikki Wu and Li-Hsin Chen
Joan Pan and Wayne Buente
Balvinder Kler and Paulin Wong
J.P.R.C. Ranasinghe, A.C.I.D Karunarathna, U.G.O. Sammani, H.M.J.P. Herath and P.G.S.S. Pattiyagedara
Masako Saito
Imali N. Fernando
Kunihiko Iwasaki and Amnaj Khaokhrueamaung
PART IV
Innovation and practice in tea tourism
Gulsun Yildirim
Amnaj Khaokhrueamuang, Piyaporn Chueamchaitrakun, and Kazuyoshi Nakakoji
Amnaj Khaokhrueamuang, Hiruna Yagi, Mutsumi Yokota, and Sousuke Goto
Kyoko Ishigami and Amnaj Khaokhrueamuang
Risa Takano, Daisuke Kanama, and Naoko Yamada
Harima Zamani-Farahani
PART V
Resilience in tea tourism
Sujama Roy
Chandan Datta
Jose Soares de Albergaria Ferreira Pinto
Epilogue
Li-Hsin Chen and Amnaj Khaokhrueamuang
Biography
Lee Jolliffe is visiting professor at Ulster University, UK. She has written extensively on heritage tourism topics including tea tourism through her 2007 edited book, Tea and Tourism: Tourists, Transitions and Transformations. In researching tea and tourism she has visited tea gardens and estates in many countries, completing a Japanese Tea Master Course in Japan and the World Tea Tours Darjeeling Immersion program in India.
M.S.M. Aslam is professor in tourism management, Department of Tourism Management at Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka, and Editor in Chief, Asian Journal of Management Studies. He has carried out research on tea and tourism from different perspectives published individually and jointly in international journals and conference proceedings. He initiated and is working with Sabaragamuwa University of Sri Lanka to establish the International Tea Tourism Institute (ITTI). He works with public and private organizations to develop tea tourism in Sri Lanka.
Amnaj Khaokhrueamuang is an associate professor in tourism at the School of Management and Information, University of Shizuoka, Japan. His research interest focuses on rural tourism-related issues associated with community development, agricultural extension, culture and heritage. Tea tourism is one of his research focuses, particularly in the international exchange of tea-related business between Japan and Thailand, which expects to provide the lessons learned to global tea industry communities.
Li-Hsin Chen is an assistant professor, International Masters' Program of Tourism and Hospitality, National Kaohsiung University of Hospitality and Tourism. She is Associate Editor of the Journal of Responsible Tourism Management and also serves as editorial board member for other journals in tourism and hospitality. Her research interests include coffee and tea tourism, bicycle tourism, dual attitudes model, indirect measurement, experiencescapes, service design and multisensory marketing.
