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Contemporary Perspectives on China Tourism is an innovative and engaging collection which presents unique approaches and critical insights into the policy, development and management practices of tourism and hospitality in modern China.
This volume consists of nine independent research reports overarching the consequences of tourism from economic, sociocultural, community, and humanistic perspectives. The book addresses generic issues such as tourism demand, mega events, leisure, tourist experience, cultural representation, community development, and quality of life through tourism, as well as strategies and techniques specific to the tourism and hospitality industries.
Contemporary Perspectives on China Tourism draws on methodological traditions of anthropology, business, communication and media studies, geography, linguistics and literature, sociology, and critical tourism studies.
Seven of the nine chapters in this book were originally published in a special issue on "Methodological Innovations in China Tourism Research" of the
Journal of China Tourism Research.
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Introduction: Contemporary Perspectives on China Tourism
Honggen Xiao 1. Tourism Demand Modelling and Forecasting: A Review of Literature related to Greater China
Gang Li 2. "Galloping Our Minds Beyond the Boundaries": Exploring Leisure in the Poetry of the Orchid Pavilion Gathering
Thomas M. Lavallee and Libo Yan 3. Post-Olympic Tourist Experience: An Autoethnographic Perspective
Songshan (Sam) Huang 4. Framework Suitability for Strategic Management in the Hospitality Industry: A Comparative Study
Hong Shi 5. China Hotel Quality Competitiveness Assessment: A Quality Competition Index Approach
Jianlan Zhong, Xueqiong Chen and Lijia (Karen) Xie 6. Tourism Development and Regional Quality of Life: The Case of China
Fang Meng, Xiangping Li, and Muzaffer Uysal 7. Event Impacts Assessment: A Model Based on Media Content Analysis of Expo '99 Kunming and World Expo 2010 Shanghai
Guangquan Dai, Jigang Bao, and Xin Chen 8. Repositioning Chinese Tourism Media Studies: A Sociocultural Perspective
Grace Yan and Carla Almeida Santos 9. Hongcun, China-Residents' Perceptions of the Impacts of Tourism on a Rural Community: A Mixed Methods Approach
Huimin Gu and Chris Ryan Conclusion: China Tourism Studies: Prospects and Paradigmatic Implications
Honggen Xiao
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Honggen Xiao, PhD., is Assistant Professor in the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong SAR. His tourism interests include sociology of knowledge, scientific community, knowledge development, experiential learning, cultural studies, leisure, and China tourism. He is Calendar and Index Editor of
Annals of Tourism Research, and has teaching and research experience from Hong Kong, Canada, Japan and mainland China.
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Contemporary Perspectives on China Tourism is an innovative and engaging collection which presents unique approaches and critical insights into the development and management practices of tourism in modern China. This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of China Tourism
