Culture and Society Muay Thai January 17, 2020 0 Image credit: Muay Thai by Robinnnnn; Licence: CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Written by Peter Vail. Muay Thai is undoubtedly Southeast Asia’s best known indigenous sport. Raucous, violent, colourful…
China Hainan Island in China’s popular imagination December 17, 2019 0 Image Credit: Photo by Silly Rabbit/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-SA 2.0. Written by Jeremy A. Murray. The island of Hainan is both something more and something less than…
Climate Change The effects of tourism on animal welfare in Asia November 4, 2019 0 Image Credit: Bear and elephant show, Malingering /Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NV-ND 2.0 Written by David Fennell. Scholars estimate that there are 120 billion animals that…
China Hong Kong protests: The impact on local tourism September 25, 2019 1 Image credit: Photo by Wpcpey/Flickr, Licence: CC BY-SA 4.0. Written by Denis Tolkach. Hong Kong’s major tourist attractions have been quiet recently; this is the result of…
Culture and Society What can a tourism bureau learn from a student protest movement? September 22, 2019 0 Image credit: Pingxi Sky Lantern Festival 2014 in Taiwan by Jirka Matousek/Flickr, license CC BY 2.0 Written by Perl Li Having travelled to Taiwan numerous times, I…
Business Government support or private investment? Developing community-based tourism on Taiwan’s east coast September 9, 2019 0 Written by Giulia Mengato Image credit: Hualien, Taiwan by P /Flickr, license CC BY 2.0 While corporations are typically singled out as the main perpetrators of exploitation, governments have…
Africa Chinese soft power and outbound tourism to Africa August 26, 2019 0 Image Credit: African Safari Trucks 4x4 4WD by Alex Proimos/Flickr; Licence: CC BY-NC 2.0. By Julie Yu-Wen Chen and Niall Duggan. The increase of Sino-African interactions…
Asia Tourism vs. remittances: The impact of the Easter attacks on Sri Lanka’s foreign exchange earnings May 22, 2019 0 Written by Bilesha Weeraratne. Image credit: Ronald Saunders/Flickr, Licence CC BY-NC-ND 2.0. Sri Lanka was only a few days short of celebrating a decade of peace…
BRI China’s economic clout in Vietnam: Bane or boon? May 1, 2019 0 Written by Nguyen Thanh Trung. Vietnam’s Prime Minister Ngyuen Xuan Phuc's visit to Beijing at the end of April is seen as vital for Vietnamese involvement…
Australia Career expectations of Chinese international students and returned graduates after hospitality and tourism study abroad February 13, 2019 0 Written by Katrine Sonnenschein. A significant number of Chinese international students are enrolled on tourism and hospitality degrees in Australia and they generally consider the…
