Asian Cultures and Contemporary Tourism

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xii

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2. Asian Cultures and Contemporary Tourism: Locating Asia, Cultural Differences and Trends

   • Elaine Chiao Ling Yang, Jenna Seung Hyun Lee, Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore

   Pages 1-17

3. Collectivist Culture

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 19-19

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   2. Ethnic Reunions in Tourism: The Route to Roots

      • Eunice Tan, Barkathunnisha Abu Bakar

      Pages 21-39

   3. Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) Tourism Decisions Within Collective Cultures: Insights from Taiwanese Hosts Residing in Brisbane, Australia

      • Aaron Tham, Maria M. Raciti

      Pages 41-59

   4. Same, Same, But Different: The Influence of Children in Asian Family Travel

      • Ryan Yung, Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore

      Pages 61-78

   5. A Brief History of Chinese Wedding and Bridal Photography Tourism: Through the Lens of Top Chinese Wedding Photographers

      • Yuting Jane Zhuang, André M. Everett

      Pages 79-100

   6. Motivated Muslims: Exploring Travel Career Patterns Among Indonesian Tourists

      • Hera Oktadiana, Philip L. Pearce

      Pages 101-119

4. Wellbeing

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 121-121

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   2. The Meaning of Spa Tourism for Japanese

      • Hiromi Kamata

      Pages 123-143

   3. My Story with New Zealand Wine: Female Chinese Tourists’ Wine Experiences in New Zealand

      • Lin Huang, Charles Samuel Johnston

      Pages 145-164

   4. Shamanic Rituals and South Asian Tourist Perceptions

      • Nitasha Sharma

      Pages 165-182

   5. To Go or Not to Go: A Typology of Asian Tourist Destination Avoidance

      • Fandy Tjiptono, Lin Yang

      Pages 183-200

   6. Chinese Travelling Overseas and Their Anxieties

      • Yue Ma, Can-Seng Ooi, Anne Hardy

      Pages 201-220

This book focuses on cultures that shape contemporary Asian tourist experiences. The book consists of 10 chapters, which are organised into two themes: Collectivist Culture and Wellbeing. The chapters cover emerging forms of tourism (e.g., wedding and bridal photography tourism, roots/affinity tourism and shamanic tourism), investigate a wide range of topics (e.g., tourist motivation, tourist anxiety and decision making) and consider Asian perspectives from diverse backgrounds (e.g., China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, and Nepal). The book provides tourism researchers, students and practitioners a consolidated, comprehensive and updated reference for the understanding of Asian tourists.

• Asian traveller
• Asian culture
• roots tourism
• visiting friends and relatives tourism
• family tourism
• wedding and bridal photography tourism
• spa tourism
• wine tourism
• shamanic tourism
• Muslim tourist
• female tourist
• destination avoidance
• tourist anxiety

“Asian Cultures and Contemporary Tourism is by far the most comprehensive collection of voices from the emerging group of Asian tourists. While it is titled Asian Cultures and Contemporary Tourism, most case studies are actually drawn from the perspective of tourists.” (H. Y. Lee, Tourism Geographies, January, 2019)

• Griffith University, Nathan, Australia

  Elaine Chiao Ling Yang, Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore

Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. She is a Networking Committee Member of the International Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education (ICHRIE) and is on the executive committee for the Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE). She researches emerging trends in women and family travel and tourism, as well as consumer behaviour (tourists and guests), services marketing, and qualitative research methods.

Elaine Yang is a researcher at the Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. Her doctoral research project investigates the gendered risk perception of Asian solo female travellers. She researches in the areas of gender studies and critical approaches in tourism.

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