Current Issues in Asian Tourism: Volume II

Current Issues in Asian Tourism: Volume II draws together a collection of papers from Current Issues in Asian Tourism (CIAT). CIAT was launched by the editors of Current Issues in Tourism in response to the growing number of papers about tourism in Asia received by the journal and the increasing number of authors from Asian countries.

This volume focuses on three aspects of Asian tourism. Firstly, the section on marketing, consumption and demand for Asian tourism includes papers on mega events, creative experiences, World Heritage Sites and pollution. Secondly, a group of papers focus on sustainable Asian tourism destinations including papers on investment, climate change, energy and local food. Finally, there are two chapters on Asian tourism research methods including the use of photography and qualitative methods.

The papers in this book were originally published in Current Issues in Asian Tourism.

Marketing, Consumption and Demand for Asian Tourism

1. Introduction to Current Issues in Asia: COVID-19 and beyond

C. Michael Hall and Chris Cooper

2. Tourist arrivals in Korea: Hallyu as a pull factor

SungKyu Lim and Evangelos Giouvris

3. Local and international perspectives of the influence of creative experiences of Chinese traditional culture on revisit intentions

Chih-Hsing Liu

4. A study of segmentation of cannabis-oriented tourists from China based on motivation

Jun Wen, Fang Meng, Tianyu Ying and Yaniv Belhassen

5. A journey of hope: an institutional perspective of Japanese outbound reproductive tourism

I-Chieh Michelle Yang

6. Tourist behaviour through consumption in Melaka World Heritage Site

Nurul Diyana Md Khairi, Hairul Nizam Ismail and Syed Muhammad Rafy Syed Jaafar

7. Perceived pollution and inbound tourism for Shanghai: a panel VAR approach

Xu Xu and Markum Reed

8. Profiling the elite middle-age Chinese outbound travellers: a 3rd wave?

Jigang Bao, Xin Jin and David Weaver

9. Structural relationships among mega-event experiences, emotional responses, and satisfaction: focused on the 2014 Incheon Asian Games

HakJun Song, MinCheol Kim and Yunseon Choe

Sustainable Asian Destinations

10. When destination attractiveness shifts in response to climate change: tourists’ adaptation intention in Taiwan’s Kenting National Park

Wei-Ching Wang, Chung-Hsien Lin, Wen-Bor Lu and Su-Hsin Lee

11. Understanding the role of local food in sustaining Chinese destinations

Qian Chen and Rong Huang

12. How to improve tourism energy efficiency to achieve sustainable tourism: evidence from China

Lamei He, Jianping Zha and Hui Ann Loo

13. The interaction effect of tourism and foreign direct investment on urban–rural income disparity in China: a comparison between autonomous regions and other provinces

Joon Ho Kim and Kyung Ho Kang

Asian Tourism Research Methods

14. Towards an understanding of Chinese tourist photography: evidence from the UK

Mohan Li, Richard Sharpley and Sean Gammon

15. Exploring qualitative applications of social media data for place-based assessments in destination planning

Allie McCreary, Erin Seekamp, Mae Davenport and Jordan W. Smith

C. Michael Hall is Professor of Marketing in the Department of Management, Marketing and Entrepreneurship at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand; Docent in Geography, University of Oulu, Finland; and a visiting professor at Linnaeus University, Kalmar, and Lund University, Helsingborg, Sweden. He has written widely on tourism, regional development, sustainability and gastronomy. He is co-Editor, with Chris Cooper, of the journal Current Issues in Tourism.

Chris Cooper is Professor of Tourism at Leeds Beckett University, UK. He has published and edited widely in tourism. He works with international tourism agencies, including the UNWTO and was awarded the United Nations WTO Ulysses prize for contributions to tourism policy and education in 2009. He is co-Editor, with C. Michael Hall, of the journal Current Issues in Tourism.