Tourism geographies in the ‘Asian Century’
公開日 2021.08.06
A co-authored research paper written by CTR researchers, Dr. Harng Luh Sin (CTR Visiting Fellow; Sun Yat-Sen University), Dr. Mary Mostafanezhad (CTR Visiting Fellow; University of Hawai‘i at Mānoa) and Prof. Joseph M. Cheer (CTR) has been published in an academic journal, Tourism Geographies.
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Title
Tourism geographies in the ‘Asian Century’
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Authors
Harng Luh Sin, School of Tourism Management, Sun Yat-Sen University, Guangzhou, China; Singapore Management University, Singapore, Singapore
Mary Mostafanezhad, University of Hawai‘i at Manoa, Geography, Honolulu, USA
Joseph M. Cheer, Center for Tourism Research, Wakayama University, Wakayama City, Japan; Monash University, Clayton, Australia
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Source
Tourism Geographies, 2021, 23:4, 649-658
DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2020.1826571
https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2020.1826571
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Journal details: https://www.scopus.com/sourceid/16544
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Abstract
From the British Century of the 1800s to the American Century of the 1900s to the contemporary Asian Century, tourism geographies are deeply entangled in broader shifts in geopolitical power (Luce, 1999; Scott, 2008; Shenkar, 2006). This paper considers what the transition into the Asian Century means for some of the most urgent issues of our time such as sustainable development, human rights, gender equality, and environmental change. We critique Anglo-Western centrism in tourism theory and call on tourism scholars to make radical shifts toward more inclusive epistemology and praxis. In the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic, the significance of the themes addressed are more urgent than ever. The pandemic has hastened claims that the Asian century has further accelerated given the contrasting successes of many Asia-Pacific countries, especially as compared to their Euro-American counterparts (Park, 2020). As critical tourism scholars, we are faced with an unprecedented situation, even as the pandemic looks set to become globally endemic and the true extent of its fullest impacts are only beginning to emerge, with more to surface in the years ahead. That the world faces increasing turmoil is abundantly clear. Yet, amidst the disruption to the everyday, it is hope and compassion, but also political-economic restructuring that is needed to reset the tourism industry in more sustainable, equitable, and ethical directions (Cheer, 2020; Lew, Cheer, Haywood, Brouder, Salazar, 2020; Mostafanezhad, 2020). While in no uncertain terms, the pandemic has forever changed the tourism industry as we once knew it, it is our hope that we can collectively build on the momentum of the inclusive scholarship that Critical Tourism Studies-Asia Pacific is renowned for (Edelheim, 2020; Pernecky, 2020) as we pause to reflect on the possibilities and challenges of tourism in a post-pandemic Asian Century.
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Keywords
Critical Tourism Studies Asia-Pacific; Asian Century; Critical tourism studies; Geopolitics; Hopeful scholarship; Asia Pacific
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