- 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
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- About this book
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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.
- About the authors
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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.
- Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Eating in Asia: Understanding Food Tourism and Its Perspectives in Asia
Pages 3-13
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Kin kao laew reu young (‘Have You Eaten Rice Yet’)?: A New Perspective on Food and Tourism in Thailand
Pages 17-30
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Consuming Food in Pre-industrial Korean Travel: Approaching from Veblen’s Conspicuous Consumption
Pages 31-44
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Street Food and Tourism: A Southeast Asian Perspective
Pages 45-57
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Cooking with Locals: A Food Tourism Trend in Asia?
Pages 59-70
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Bibliographic Information
- Bibliographic Information
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- Book Title
- Food Tourism in Asia
- Editors
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- Eerang Park
- Sangkyun Kim
- Ian Yeoman
- Series Title
- Perspectives on Asian Tourism
- Copyright
- 2019
- Publisher
- Springer Singapore
- Copyright Holder
- Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd.
- eBook ISBN
- 978-981-13-3624-9
- DOI
- 10.1007/978-981-13-3624-9
- Hardcover ISBN
- 978-981-13-3623-2
- Series ISSN
- 2509-4203
- Edition Number
- 1
- Number of Pages
- XV, 219
- Number of Illustrations
- 41 b/w illustrations
- Topics
