Adam Doering

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Professor at Wakayama University

The past three decades of neoliberal structural reforms in Japan has established tourism policy favoring privatization, deregulation, and flexible mobility of capital to encourage decentralized markets. Within this system, attracting skilled urban migrants to rural regions has emerged as a central component of planning and development. Drawing on K...

Physical activity levels among youth have declined globally during the twentieth century. In Japan, the context of this study, this trend is evidenced through decreasing participation rates in school sports bukatsu [extracurricular club activities], where youth participation in sport and physical activity have become a growing concern. Research sug...

Discussions of proximity in tourism emphasise the (re)discovery of places nearby, local destinations, short distances and physical closeness. This chapter aims to (re)discover this proximity through the body. Inspired by Jean-Luc Nancy’s (2008a) Corpus , we offer a philosophical reflection on ‘the body’ in relation to proximity and consider how we...

In its simplest form the Japanese character 光 (hikari) means light. The character is also included in the compound 観光 (kanko), meaning tourism or more literally “to see the light”. In this chapter, we approach post-disaster Fukushima in search of new light. Situating human-environment relations at the centre of our analysis, our aim is to illuminat...

Once touted as the world’s largest industry and also a tool for fostering peace and global understanding, tourism has certainly been a major force shaping our world. The recent COVID-19 crisis has led to calls to transform tourism and reset it along more ethical and sustainable lines. It was in this context that calls to" socialise tourism" emerged...

Since the arrival of COVID-19, tourism scholarship has focused its attention on rethinking and restarting the tourism sector. In this urgent search for a ‘new normal’, the embodied experience of hosting such an unwelcomed virus, the philosophical questions this raises, and the tourism futures already in the making, have not been fully explored. The...

This article explores signs of hospitality in the tourism linguistic landscape (LL) of the Kumano Kodo Pilgrimage Trail in Wakayama, Japan. We argue that the multilingualization of visible tourism public signage in this rural region raises important philosophical questions of hospitality. With the help of Jacque Derrida to navigate this difficult t...

The increasing popularity of walking pilgrimage has created new forms of interaction and exchange between pilgrims and residents along pilgrimage routes. As a result, religious hospitality along these pilgrimage routes is also under transformation. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork conducted along the Koyasan Choishi-michi pilgrimage route in Wakay...

This research note examines lifestyle sports and public education in Japan through an exploration of new collectivisms, contested identities and community connections in Aoshima Junior High’s Surfing Bukatsu

Tourism planning and development is a complex, multifaceted, and highly politicised phenomenon, particularly in the context of economic development for rural minority communities. This paper discusses such a case in the context of a remote rural community, Siwa Oasis in the western desert of Egypt, which was one of the destinations identified in th...

This study examines how tourism destinations are produced and fashioned by urban-to-rural lifestyle migrants who bring new practices, aesthetics and meaning to place. To better understand how places are re-fashioned for and by tourism, we draw on the case of rural tourism development in Miyazaki, Japan. Post-economic bubble Japan has become increas...

Despite the significance attached to local participation for African tourism development in terms of encouraging social, environmental and economic sustainability, development efforts remain largely centred on international tourism. Tourism in protected areas throughout Africa exemplify this contradiction. Statistics show that across Africa, the nu...

An agenda for socialising tourism seeks to address the disbenefits associated with neoliberal corporatised forms of tourism by reorienting tourism in important ways. Socialising tourism can be viewed as a revival and extension of earlier thinking by Higgins-Desbiolles on “tourism as a social force”. In later work, Higgins-Desbiolles proposed social...

This concluding chapter summarises the varied contributions, key themes and future directions of Socialising Tourism: Rethinking Tourism for Social and Ecological Justice. This edited collection has sought to advance the socialising tourism concept by furthering ideas on how tourism may be made accountable to social and ecological limits. Bringing...

Purpose This article considers the possibilities of and barriers to socialising tourism after the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic. Such an approach allows us to transform tourism and thereby evolve it to be of wider benefit and less damaging to societies and ecologies than has been the case under the corporatised model of tourism. Des...

The introduction to this special issue explores why in an ‘age of communication’ it has become increasingly important to revisit a somewhat lost sense of communication that we describe as the interface of culture and communication. Inspired by Karen Barad’s work and the diverse range of contributions to this special issue, we reflect on the fragmen...

A philosophical reflection inspired by Jean-Luc Nancy's essay "L'Intrús" and published as part of the special issue "Looking forward to a hopeful future", Hospitality Insights, Vol. 4 No. 2 (2020). Edited by Alison McIntosh, Shelagh Mooney and David Williamson https://ojs.aut.ac.nz/hospitality-insights/issue/view/8

This article examines the local practices, histories, and transnational circulation and exchange of gender ideologies within Japanese surfscapes. A focus on gender in relation to Japanese surf culture is critical as the ways surf spaces in Japan are governed and/or have changed in recent years has as much to do with transnational gender surf ideolo...

“Lifestyle sports” are not the preserve of occidental cultures, even though late capitalist Western nations dominate them commercially and ideologically. Examples of these sports are snowboarding, BASE jumping, freestyle BMX, mountain biking, bouldering, skateboarding, kiteboarding, rock climbing, parkour/free running, windsurfing, and surfing. Non...

CTS-Asia Pacific | Wakayama, Japan | 17-19 February 2020 FIRST CALL FOR PAPERS 1 August, 2019. Abstract submission deadline (250-300 words) Confirmed Keynotes speakers. Tony Wheeler (Author and co-founder of the travel publisher The Lonely Planet). Christine R. Yano (Professor of Anthropology at the University of Hawai`i). Dr. Tazim Jamal (Profes...

このシンポジウムでは、自然と文化の適切な管理が持続可能な経済の土台となり得ることや、多くの代替方法について学ぶ絶好の機会です。 THEME & KEYWORDS テーマと話題 起業家精神、リーダーシップ, エコツーリズム、ツーリズム、地域活性化、建築、自然保護、エコdrr、自然の権利、環境正義、文化、持続可能なビジネス、マーケティング、建設国、カトクビーチ、奄美のジュラシックビーチ GUEST SPEAKERS' PROFILE アダム・ドーリング 経歴 2013年にニュージーランド・オタゴ大学にて博士号を取得。同学サステ―ナビリティーセンター研究員、同学経営学科でビジネス倫理とサステナビリティの科目を担当。博士号取得以来、20以上の論文を学術学会誌、学術本、産業レポート等に発表し...

Destination management (or marketing) organizations (DMOs) have a long history, especially in the West. In Japan, however, anecdotal observation suggests that the term DMO was not part of the vocabulary of tourism practitioners or policy makers until the Japanese government adopted the concept in 2015 as a cornerstone of its new tourism policy. Sin...

Surf, sea and sustainability event collaboration The aim of the Surf, Sea and Sustainability event is to offer an opportunity for the students and staff at Wakayama University and the public of Wakayama to reflect on their relationship with the ocean, exploring the ways people’s lives are transformed by the sea and what we can do to encourage susta...

On August 3, 2016, the International Olympic Committee’s (IOC) unanimously voted to introduce surfing as a demonstration sport in the Tokyo 2020 Games. For the first time in history 20 female and 20 male surfers will compete for medals in Chiba, Japan, as part of the Olympic competition. The inclusion of surfing in the Games was anticipated over on...

This article presents a genealogy of domestic surf tourism development in contemporary Japan. Drawing on two months’ ethnographic fieldwork conducted between July and August 2016, and participant observation during three years working, living and surfing in the area, I trace the historical production of one of Japan’s most prominent surf tourism de...

Over the past decade Critical Tourism Studies (CTS) has endeavoured to create a better “tourism world” while also drawing attention to tourism’s “worldmaking” force. However, the question of “the world” itself has escaped the critical lens of CTS. Reading Jean-Luc Nancy’s philosophy of the world alongside Jia Zhangke's film The World (2004) this ar...

The Asia Pacific is one of the fastest growing regions in the world for both international and domestic tourism. The growth of this region has radically altered the global tourism landscape and contributed to new modes of tourism practice, while engendering a decentering of Anglo-Western centrism in tourism theory. In this inaugural conference of t...

In 2015, the Japanese government launched a programme that aims to enhance the performance of destination organisations. Within the programme, the concept of destination marketing and/or management organisations (DMOs), which has been developed mainly in the Western countries, was introduced. Destination organisations can apply to be registered as...

Destination marketing and/or management organizations (DMOs) have been acknowledged as an essential component of the tourism system. However, the ability of DMOs to manage and coordinate destination development in contemporary society is now being questioned by scholars. The focus of this regional spotlight is Japan, a country that has recently tur...

Over the past several decades, destination marketing and/or management organisations (DMOs) have contributed to destination development. Although their effectiveness is under debate, their role is still expected to continue in many countries, including Japan. In 2015, the Japanese government launched a program aimed at establishing leading DMOs to...

The roles that sport and tourism play in identity building are complex and poorly understood. This chapter focuses on the sport, tourism, and identity nexus as it relates to the mobilities that are inherent in rugby in Japan. We open with an overview of sport, tourism, and identity drawing on the previous work of Higham and Hinch (2009). The chapte...

Transport is a vast and complex socio-technical system, and despite a clear need to reduce dependence on fossil fuels due to undesirable environmental impacts, it is largely locked into business-as-usual. Systems approaches are a useful way to help make sense of multiple competing influences which may be simultaneously driving change and supporting...

If you surf, the odds are high that you also know a Japanese surfer. Next to America, Australia, and Brazil, Japan has long been regarded as an established surf nation. Yet despite the fact that Japanese surf culture has been present on the international stage since at least the 70’s, very little has been written about its unique surf history and c...

Dominant sustainability discourses commonly situate Earth as the singular realm of human influence and position modern mobility as one of the primary means through which we are destroying the biosphere. The commercialisation of activities in outer space and the development of space tourism have resulted in drastically reduced launch costs, enabling...

Destination Marketing/Management Organisations (DMOs) have been discussed in the tourism literature for many years, and they have been seen as an essential component of tourism destinations. However, the role of DMOs is now being questioned. This study focuses on the Japanese government's recent strategy for introducing the concept of DMO to enhanc...

How does belonging fit into a Western travel ideal so heavily invested in freedom? When one reflects on travel stories in the West the initial response seems clear: there is no belonging. From the colonial binaries of “home/away”, “self/other” and “free/unfree”, to New Age claims of belonging on the road, to the world, or as a global soul – hinting...

This article offers a polemic directed against the largely unchallenged incorporation of mobilities within tourism studies. The mobilities paradigm may offer many constructive insights for the field of tourism; however, this article argues that the concept has been received rather uncritically by tourism scholarship and needs further critical appra...

The dominance of fossil fuel‐powered transport systems presents a serious risk to human well‐being and the natural environment. Transitioning to a low‐carbon transport system requires changes to many dimensions of transport, including: technologies, and mobility practices and expectations. It also requires changes across multiple scales of activity...

As concerns about energy security and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions become more pronounced, establishing an energy-efficient low-carbon transport system has increasingly become a priority for businesses, government and communities. This report set out to discover the range of agents involved in transport initiatives which are aligned with these g...

Lighting Vanuatu began in 2010 as a two-year project funded through The Australian Aid - Governance for Growth Programme. The primary objective of the project was to increase access of portable solar lanterns for rural Vanuatu communities in an effort to reduce their dependency on kerosene as the primary source of household lighting. To achieve thi...

Permanent link to OUR Archive version: http://hdl.handle.net/10523/3805 How does belonging fit into the Western travel ideal? When one reflects on the discourses of travel in the West the initial response seems simple: there is no belonging. From colonial expansion to modern tourism, from the binaries of home-abroad, self-other, moving-staying, an...

Is society experiencing motion sickness? Today’s literature abounds with metaphors of ‘flows’, ‘scapes’ and ‘liquidity’, each endeavouring to elucidate a contemporary condition where people, objects, images and ideas traverse a ceaselessly moving globe. What these theories represent, besides vertiginous symbolism, is a collective plea to mobilize t...