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Asian Cultures and Contemporary Tourism

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Editors:
  1. Elaine Chiao Ling Yang

    1. Griffith University, Nathan, Australia

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  2. Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore

    1. Griffith University, Nathan, Australia

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  • Brings together different perspectives to understand cultures that underpin contemporary Asian tourist behaviours
  • Offers tourism researchers, students and practitioners a consolidated, comprehensive and updated reference for the understanding of Asian tourists
  • Provides an intellectual platform for Asian scholars to represent the voices of Asian tourists in their own cultural terms

Part of the book series: Perspectives on Asian Tourism (PAT)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Asian Cultures and Contemporary Tourism: Locating Asia, Cultural Differences and Trends

    • Elaine Chiao Ling Yang, Jenna Seung Hyun Lee, Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore
    Pages 1-17

  4. Wellbeing

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121
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    2. The Meaning of Spa Tourism for Japanese

      • Hiromi Kamata
      Pages 123-143

    3. My Story with New Zealand Wine: Female Chinese Tourists’ Wine Experiences in New Zealand

      • Lin Huang, Charles Samuel Johnston
      Pages 145-164

    4. Shamanic Rituals and South Asian Tourist Perceptions

      • Nitasha Sharma
      Pages 165-182

    5. To Go or Not to Go: A Typology of Asian Tourist Destination Avoidance

      • Fandy Tjiptono, Lin Yang
      Pages 183-200

    6. Chinese Travelling Overseas and Their Anxieties

      • Yue Ma, Can-Seng Ooi, Anne Hardy
      Pages 201-220
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About this book

This book focuses on cultures that shape contemporary Asian tourist experiences. The book consists of 10 chapters, which are organised into two themes: Collectivist Culture and Wellbeing. The chapters cover emerging forms of tourism (e.g., wedding and bridal photography tourism, roots/affinity tourism and shamanic tourism), investigate a wide range of topics (e.g., tourist motivation, tourist anxiety and decision making) and consider Asian perspectives from diverse backgrounds (e.g., China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, and Nepal). The book provides tourism researchers, students and practitioners a consolidated, comprehensive and updated reference for the understanding of Asian tourists.


Reviews

“Asian Cultures and Contemporary Tourism is by far the most comprehensive collection of voices from the emerging group of Asian tourists. While it is titled Asian Cultures and Contemporary Tourism, most case studies are actually drawn from the perspective of tourists.” (H. Y. Lee, Tourism Geographies, January, 2019)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Griffith University, Nathan, Australia

    Elaine Chiao Ling Yang, Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore

About the editors

Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. She is a Networking Committee Member of the International Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education (ICHRIE) and is on the executive committee for the Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE). She researches emerging trends in women and family travel and tourism, as well as consumer behaviour (tourists and guests), services marketing, and qualitative research methods.

Elaine Yang is a researcher at the Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. Her doctoral research project investigates the gendered risk perception of Asian solo female travellers. She researches in the areas of gender studies and critical approaches in tourism.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Asian Cultures and Contemporary Tourism

  • Editors: Elaine Chiao Ling Yang, Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore

  • Series Title: Perspectives on Asian Tourism

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7980-1

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-7979-5Published: 06 March 2018

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4033-8Published: 30 December 2018

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-7980-1Published: 26 February 2018

  • Series ISSN: 2509-4203

  • Series E-ISSN: 2509-4211

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 220

  • Number of Illustrations: 34 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Tourism Management, Asian Culture, Social Aspects of Religion

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