Overview
- Analyses empirical evidence collected and interpreted by tourism researchers focusing on Asian culture and context
- Offers a variety of perspectives and case studies of Asian destinations, including many emerging destinations
- Provides an Asian perspective that is missing from much current literature
Part of the book series: Perspectives on Asian Tourism (PAT)
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Table of contents (16 chapters)
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Overview
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Tourism Planning in Asian Destinations
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Managing Asian Destinations
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Marketing Asian Destinations and Experiences
Keywords
- Asian tourism
- tourism planning
- tourism marketing
- tourism management
- international tourism
- destination management
- destination marketing
- destination governance
- island tourism
- cultural tourism
- sustainable tourism
- medical tourism
- festivals and events
- Chinese tourism
- Chinese tourist
- tourism policy
- ecotourism
- youth tourism
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Aishath Shakeela is a Senior Lecturer at the Griffith Business School, Griffith University. Her research expertise lies in the fields of sustainable tourism, climate change impacts on tourism, emotions in tourism, tourism employment, and tourism in small island destinations. Her recent research activities include aUNDP-funded project analysing the gaps and disincentives that exist in the policies, laws, and regulations that act as barriers to investing in climate change adaptation in the tourism sector of the Maldives.
Anna Kwek teaches research methods at Griffith University where she is involved in developing teaching innovations aimed at identifying strategies to improve student engagement and retention in culturally diverse learning environments. Her current research interests include Chinese tourist experience, diasporic tourism, geopolitical aspects of tourism, international student travel and the pedagogy of internationalisation of higher education.
Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. She has research and training interests in marketing to tourists and guests in tourism and hospitality industries, with a passionate focus on women, families and young children. She is also particularly interested in understanding these segments from an Asian perspective, and how their travel experience and behaviours differ cross-culturally. Catheryn has expertise in feasibility studies and qualitative research methodologies using photographs, virtual texts, observations, focus groups and in-depth interviews. She has started and sold businesses for profit and experienced consulting for institutions and organisations; and also designed and conducted soft-skill training programmes for public-listed companies. Catheryn is Editor-in-Chief for Tourism Management Perspectives; Second Vice-Chair for the Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE); and founder of Women Academics in Tourism (WAiT).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Managing Asian Destinations
Editors: Ying Wang, Aishath Shakeela, Anna Kwek, Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore
Series Title: Perspectives on Asian Tourism
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-8426-3
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: Business and Management, Business and Management (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2018
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-10-8425-6Published: 13 April 2018
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-13-4147-2Published: 29 December 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-981-10-8426-3Published: 05 April 2018
Series ISSN: 2509-4203
Series E-ISSN: 2509-4211
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XII, 277
Number of Illustrations: 41 b/w illustrations
Topics: Tourism Management, Asian Business, Asian Culture