1st Edition

Sustainable Tourism in Emerging Economies

Edited By Honggen Xiao, Haiyan Song, Songshan (Sam) Huang Copyright 2026
296 Pages
by Routledge

296 Pages
by Routledge

This book focuses on sustainable tourism theory and practice in emerging economies, particularly in Asia. Sustainability as a paradigm of development has been widely researched and practiced in hospitality and tourism industries. Nonetheless, existing theories are largely developed in the Western contexts, and may not be completely applicable to situations in emerging economies, where, due to... Read more

1. Sustainable tourism paradigms across cultures: a continuum from Western to Eastern perspectives

Qingyun Pang, Hongrun Wu, Honggen Xiao, Haiyan Song and Songshan (Sam) Huang

 

2. How does social entrepreneurship achieve sustainable development goals in rural tourism destinations? The role of legitimacy and social capital

Xinrui Wang, Yani Huang and Kaijie Huang

 

3. Are Chinese willing to pay for travel carbon offset products?

Hongrun Wu, Hanyuan Zhang and Haiyan Song

 

4. “It is my place”: residents’ community-based psychological ownership and its impact on rural tourism participation

Jingjing Guan, Dingwen Zhu, Shiyun Cheng and Qiucheng Li

 

5. Partnerships in educational tourism in China: a power perspective

Yan Chai, Bin Dai, Yang Zhang and Yang Wang

 

6. Tourism and sociocultural identity discourses in ethnic minority communities: a study of she ethnic townships in Zhejiang Province, China

Salman Yousaf, Ying Liu and Yuning Xiang

 

7. Exploring Chinese sustainable tourism: a 25-year perspective

Haiyan Kong, Xuejie Qiu, Kangping Wang, Naipeng Bu, Catherine Cheung and Ning Zhang

 

8. The effect of awe on tourists’ responsible behavioral intention in a mountainous religious tourism destination: evidence from China

Hui Zhang and Xianyi He

 

9. The influence of allocentrism on residents’ sustainable entrepreneurial intentions in collectivist rural tourism destinations – a perspective from face and guanxi

Xiaoli Lu, Meng Zhou, Jin Bai, Zhenyan Huang and Jingmin Zhu

 

10. The power of homestay tourism in fighting social stigmas and inequities

Birendra KC and Sajani Thapa

 

11. Gender equality in a Chinese rural tourism destination: perspectives of females and males

Ming Ming Su, Menghan Wang, Geoffrey Wall, Zhenhua Liu, Hangyu Dong and Mengzhen Zhang

 

12. Environmental communication in wildlife tourism: narrative framing and emotion effect on the willingness to pay for a destination

Shanshan Dai, Puyue Zhang, Shina Li and Honggang Xu

 

13. Unravelling green innovative behavior in pilgrimage tourism: the role of learning climate and green self-efficacy

Dagnachew Leta Senbeto

 

Biography

Honggen Xiao is Professor in the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University with interests in knowledge development, tourism and culture, leisure and society, and China Tourism. Email: [email protected]

Haiyan Song is Chair Professor in the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University with interests in economics and econometrics, demand modelling and forecasting, and financial management with applications in tourism and hospitality. Email: [email protected]

Songshan (Sam) Huang is Professor of Tourism and Services Marketing in the School of Business and Law at Edith Cowan University, with interests in tourism, destination, and Chinese tourists. Email: [email protected]