A5091082722- Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research
- Geographies of human-animal interactions
- Religious Tourism and Spaces
- Sex work and related issues
- Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development
- Diaspora, migration, transnational identity
- China's Global Influence and Migration
- Advanced Technologies in Various Fields
- Political Systems and Governance
- Law and Political Science
- Socioeconomic Development in Asia
- Southeast Asian Sociopolitical Studies
- Asian Culture and Media Studies
- Art History and Market Analysis
- Cultural Industries and Urban Development
- Social Media and Politics
- Reformation and Early Modern Christianity
- Migration, Ethnicity, and Economy
- Media, Gender, and Advertising
- Historical Influence and Diplomacy
- Korean Urban and Social Studies
- China's Socioeconomic Reforms and Governance
- Historical and Cultural Studies of Poland
- Qualitative Research Methods and Ethics
- European Union Policy and Governance
Edinburgh Napier University
2023
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2022
University of Macau
2021
Leeds Beckett University
2020-2021
City University of Macau
2020-2021
Walking is a potential key growth area for diversifying domestic leisure and tourism demand in China. This research discusses the emergence of walking as touristic activity among Chinese tourists on Ancient Tea Horse Road (ATHR) Yunnan, using mobile ethnography. Constellations sought practices, experiences, expressed beliefs concerning are discussed four emerging communities walkers theses trails: hiker, sightseer, donkey friend ATHR pilgrim. The findings presented here reflect various...
This commentary reviews recent research in terms of tourist’s mobilities practices walking, cycling and driving. It concludes by reflecting on the contemporary lock down travel global pandemic its consequences for waiting, stillness immobility – particularly flying.
In this paper, we reflect on the challenges of ethnographic fieldwork in tourism research. Specifically, discuss intense, messy and complex dynamics doing (tourism) fieldwork, highlighting how key have affected us as researchers, our practises, relationships experiences field. Our reflections are illustrated considering respectively research mountaineering Himalayas, walking China, horse-riding UK volunteer Peru. Although these fields very different social geopolitical contexts, experienced...
Embodied mobilities are an important factor in how people engage with their environment, and thus contribute to the formation, contestation, affirmation of place. Walking is a mobile place-making practice that most on almost daily basis which has been frequently investigated regards consumption construction These explorations have predominantly focusing urban contexts taken perspective multisensory, corporeal, cognitive, emotional. However, discursive notions who walks where how, these...
This paper presents research exploring the narratives Chinese women and men share online regarding gendered tourism experiences. Data were collected from 260 blog postings resulting discussion threads on social media travel sites March to November 2019. Search keywords included 'gender,' 'women,' 'identity,' 'safety,' 'reasons travel,' 'men's resistance women's 'sexual harassment.' Through a critical discourse analysis of postings, we found negative constructions who embedded in Confucian...
This article examines how various stakeholders’ practices on the ground mobilise and immobilise Chamagudao’s heritage as a historic trade caravan route. The research is based ethnographic fieldwork in Yunnan, China, following movements of tourists, guides, residents information remaining trails Chamagudao. It outlines nodes, constructed by state actors touristic media, rather than lines mobile primarily constitute Chamagudao, implications for tourists’ awareness understanding Chamagudao...
ABSTRACTThis study examines how diaspora tourists' secondary and primary image of their ancestral home is constructed the tourist gaze implied within. The focuses on Hokkien Chinese travelling to hometown Quanzhou, China. 58 foreign-born participants were interviewed. A thematic analysis transcripts revealed significant influence collective romantic in forming both images Quanzhou. Visiting Quanzhou emerges as a strategy for survival, maintaining cultural connectivity fostering transnational...