Overview
- Provides an Asian perspective on a predominantly Western-centric field of research
- Covers the history, management, contemporary issues, and emerging research trends of food tourism
- Explores a rapidly expanding area of research on a fast-growing industry
Part of the book series: Perspectives on Asian Tourism (PAT)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Food and Tourism: Socio-cultural Aspects of Food Tourism in Asia
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Food Tourism Destination Development, Policy, and Management
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Food Tourists and Tourist Behaviour
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Conclusion
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About this book
This book draws together empirical research across a range of contemporary examples of food tourism phenomenon in Asia to provide a holistic picture of their role and influence. It encompasses case studies from around the pan-Asian region, including China, Japan, South Korea, Thailand, Singapore, Vietnam, and India.
The book specifically focuses on and explicitly includes a variety of perspectives of non-Western and Asian research contexts of food tourism by bringing multidisciplinary approaches to food tourism research and wider evidence of food and tourism in Asia.
Reviews
“The book provides a practical understanding of issues, policies and marketing campaigns which is helpful for tourism academics, destination marketers as well as tourism businesses and stakeholders.” (Namita Roy, Journal of Tourism Futures, Vol. 5 (3), 2019)
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Eerang Park is a senior lecturer in Tourism Management at the School of Management in Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand, and adjunct researcher in Edith Cowan University, Australia. She has been developing her research in a wider tourism context that includes tourist behaviour, community empowerment and tourism, tourism in Asia, and visual analysis of tourism research. Her recent research focuses on food tourism in Asia and Cittaslow.
Sangkyun Kim is an Associate Professor of Tourism at the School of Business and Law at Edith Cowan University, Australia. His work is international and interdisciplinary at the boundaries of social psychology, cultural studies, media studies, geography, and tourism. Associate Professor Kim's research includes film tourism, food tourism, tourist experience, and visual and mixed methods. He is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Travel & Tourism Marketing, Journal of Tourism & Cultural Change, Anatolia, Tourist Studies, Tourism Management Perspectives, and Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research.
Ian Yeoman is an advocate for the future of tourism. Ian is an Associate Professor at Victoria University of Wellington and Visiting Professors at the European Tourism Futures Institute and Ulster University. Ian is the editor of the Journal of Revenue and Pricing Management, co-editor of the Journal of Tourism Futures and co-editor of Channelview’s Tourism Futures series. Author and editor of over twenty books, including forthcoming titles Future Past of Tourism and Science Fiction, Disruption and Tourism. Outside the future, Ian is New Zealand’s number one Sunderland AFC fan.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Food Tourism in Asia
Editors: Eerang Park, Sangkyun Kim, Ian Yeoman
Series Title: Perspectives on Asian Tourism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-13-3624-9
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-13-3623-2Published: 25 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-981-13-3624-9Published: 01 February 2019
Series ISSN: 2509-4203
Series E-ISSN: 2509-4211
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XV, 219
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations
Topics: Tourism Management, Asian Culture, Asian Business