Current Issues in Asian Tourism

This comprehensive volume was put together in response to the growing amount of research on tourism in Asia and an increasing number of authors from Asian countries. It concentrates on two aspects of Asian Tourism: first, the Asian tourists themselves, and second, economic development and tourism in the Asian region.

The first part of the collection focuses on three areas: the motivations of different types of Asian tourist; the characteristics and behaviour of particular Asian tourist segments; and, finally, an analysis of specific research issues. The second part of the book then goes on to explore the governance and organisation of tourism in the Asian region, and the nature of Asian growth and competitiveness as it relates to tourism.

The articles in this book were originally published in 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 United Nations World Trade Organization, and was awarded the UNWTO 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.

C. Michael Hall is Professor of Marketing in the Department of Management, Marketing & Entrepreneurship at the University of Canterbury, New Zealand. He has longstanding teaching and research interests in tourism and temporary mobility; regional development; environmental history, environmental and climate change and sustainability; and governance, institutions, power and policy making in tourism. He is co-Editor, with Chris Cooper, of the journal Current Issues in Tourism.