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This book brings together a collection of chapters that investigate sustainable tourism development in different Asian contexts; from stakeholders' perspectives, existing issues in the market, as well as the impacts of COVID-19 on tourism. It highlights the importance of tourism sustainability in Asia. Specifically, this book examines these themes by examples related to Asian tourism such as; social-cultural impact of sustainable growth, environmental constraints and policies, community engagement, moral limits of the market, stakeholders' participation in tourism development, the hindered interaction between foreign tourists and local community, impact of the pandemic and proposed ways forward.
This edited volume substantiates this by using evidence of quantitative, qualitative and mixed methods approaches aligned with empirical data to show sustainable efforts and impacts. This book is of interest to researchers and practitioners as it offers timely understandings ofsustainable tourism from multiple perspectives within the Asian context.
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Chapter 1 The evolution of sustainable tourism in Asia.- Part I Stakeholders Perspectives and Sustainability.- Chapter 2 Partnerships Towards Sustainability: The Revival of Boracay's Wetlands.- Chapter 3 Local community participation towards Malaysian Homestay Sustainability.- Chapter 4 Nurturing Sense of Place: Host Community Perspectives for Social Sustainability.- Chapter 5 Sustainability and the tourist wall: the case of hindered interaction between Chinese visitors with Malaysian society.- Chapter 6 Sustainable tourism in emerging regional destinations in China: Stakeholder participation in Genhe.- Part II COVID-19 and its Impact on Tourism Sustainability.- Chapter 7 Re-negotiating the future for Indonesian tourism after COVID-19: Sustainability as the New Normal?.- Chapter 8 Tourism Sustainability in Indonesia: Reflection and Reformulation.- Part III Issues of sustainable tourism in Asia.- Chapter 9 Scenarios of Sustainable Tourism Development in Cambodia.- Chapter 10 Sustainable Tourism and the Moral Limits of the Market: Can Asia Offer Alternatives to Doing Better Sustainable Tourism?.- Index.
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Dr. Ann Selvaranee Balasingam is currently the Head School of Hospitality & Tourism Faculty of Business, Hospitality & Humanities at Nilai university in Malaysia. She has been working in the hospitality industry since her teenage years before venturing into academia since 2008 after obtaining her Master in Business Administration from the University of Western Australia and PhD in Tourism from University Putra Malaysia (UPM). She has been teaching business and hospitality courses at the undergraduate and post-graduate level. She is also an active member of the Tourism Educators Association of Malaysia (TEAM). Her area of research is in sustainable tourism with a focus on Malaysian homestays and tourism sustainability.
Dr. Yue Ma is an early career researcher. She is currently a lecturer in tourism and society, and a member of the Tourism Research and Education Network (TRENd) at the University of Tasmania. Yue received her PhD in December 2019 from University of Tasmania. Her research has included: water-gender-tourism nexus; sustainable development of Chinese national parks; tourism education during pandemic, Chinese outbound tourism, Chinese culture and social media in research.
