Jaeyeon Choe

Jaeyeon Choe
Glasgow Caledonian University | GCU · Glasgow School for Business and Society

PhD in Tourism and Cultural Anthropology

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Introduction
Dr. Jaeyeon Choe obtained her PhD in Tourism Management & Cultural Anthropology from The Pennsylvania State University. Her research areas revolve around wellness/spiritual tourism, pilgrimage, sustainable community development & the wellbeing of marginalised communities. She is currently leading a project, 'Tourism for SDGs: Wellness Tourism and Sustainable Development in Indonesia'. With a passion of knowledge co-production, she actively works with the ASEAN academic communities.

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Meditation has been shown to be a cost-effective means to help individuals reduce stress, alleviate anxiety and depression. Similarly, leisure has been found to reduce stress, improve mood and contribute to overall health and well-being. The similarities and differences in outcomes between meditation and leisure suggest that a comparative analysis...
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While dominant discourses, media representations and corporate entities in China downplay the presence of Chinese mainland gambling in Macau, Beijing sanctions millions of its citizens to make the journey to Macau to gamble each year. This study explores Chinese gambling tourist’s movements, rituals and behaviours along post-structuralist lines, so...
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The papers in this special issue, Geographies of Religion and Spirituality: Pilgrimage beyond the ‘Officially Sacred,’ are placed in the context of a comprehensive theoretical overview of the role that the sacred plays in shaping, conducting, controlling, and contesting pilgrimage. As scholarship examining the lived experiences of travelers has dem...
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From books to movies, the media is now flush with spiritual and wellness tourist-related images, films, and fiction (which are primarily produced in the West) about Southeast Asia. Combined with the positive effects of spiritual practices, greater numbers of tourists are travelling to Southeast Asia for mindfulness, yoga, and other spiritual pursui...
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While tourism scholars have sought to problematize the unevenly distributed impacts of the COVID-19 pandemic, we know much less about how resilience is cultivated among tourism practitioners and communities whose lives and livelihoods are have been placed in limbo. Drawing on literature at the intersection of critical tourism studies and resilience...
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The distinctions between tourism and migration are increasingly blurred. Tourism often drives various forms of mobility, and an international workforce is essential to maintaining functioning tourism economies. This book explores intersections of tourism and migration, considering their relationships with and impacts on social sustainability. The c...
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A ‘one month stay’ abroad has become a sustained and growing micro-niche for South Koreans across generations and backgrounds, as disdain for social conventions based on Confucian values leads to greater demand for more individual choices, escape from social conventions, and work-life balance. This chapter explores the socio-demographic profile and...
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While changes in society continue to inform understandings of what leisure is and how it manifests itself, the emergence of Chinese outbound tourists, with specific motivations, travel styles and interests, are having powerful impacts on multiple host destinations. While university campuses have long been marked as visitor attractions in China, thi...
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Tourism studies literature often recognises Community-Based Tourism (CBT) as a means for sustainable and inclusive tourism, by reducing poverty and inequality for communities and a solution to various problems caused by mass tourism such as economic leakage and ‘tourist bubbles’. However, there is little scholarly understanding about the challenges...
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Vietnam has achieved enormous economic growth after a series of reforms in the 1980’s, leading to foreign direct investment and the development of the tourism sector. A tourism industry emerged and has burgeoned with the increase of inbound international tourists. In this introductory paper, we critically discuss the three pillars of sustainable de...
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From visiting the ghats in Varanasi to walking the Camino de Santiago, travelling can be a deeply spiritual experience. See the full text here: https://theconversation.com/five-spiritual-tourism-destinations-and-how-to-experience-them-178372
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When the linguistic innovation and phrase overtourism was used in an online news report to describe excessive tourism in Iceland in 2016, legacy and social media soon following with in-depth articles and visual representations of perceived excessive tourism in other locations around the world. Given the growing calls for action on overtourism, this...
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In practice, the distinctions between tourism and migration are blurred. Tourism often drives various forms of mobility, and an international workforce is central to maintaining functioning tourism economies. This piece sketches out some critical themes and issues concerning intersections of tourism and migration, considering their relationships wi...
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Purpose As tourism destinations grapple with declines in tourist arrivals due to COVID-19 measures, scholarly debate on overtourism remains active, with discussions on solutions that could be enacted to contain the excessive regrowth of tourism and the return of “overtourism”. As social science holds an important role and responsibility to inform t...
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"Why you might want to consider a pilgrimage for your next holiday or day trip" in Conversation UK: https://theconversation.com/why-you-might-want-to-consider-a-pilgrimage-for-your-next-holiday-or-day-trip-174208?fbclid=IwAR3cshoy7WqoXxQDYxES9KsWjSSof0A9BI4ysiT8tEH5vAqFjAPkVqq4fzo
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Tea Time Chat Series -15: Pilgrimage Tourism in Wales during the Pandemic: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gOxMhgZlPWY&t=1901s
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Tea Time Chat Series -14: Global consciousness and planetary well-being with Prof. Alan Lew: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hZ5ljDtKMR4&t=207s
Technical Report
See the link for the full text: https://asiatravelreset.substack.com/p/asia-pacific-travel-and-tourism-report-aa6
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See the link for the full text: https://medium.com/tourism-geographic/these-are-novembers-most-important-travel-news-stories-in-the-asia-pacific-57d4d9c33906
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Tea Time Chat Series - 13: Study Abroad and the Quest for an Anti-Tourism Experience: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIt-SBTzrig&t=1752s
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Tea Time Chat Series - 12 with Dr. Anne Bailey: Pilgrimage during COVID-19 and Post Pandemic Time: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik_l4OYvh3g&t=141s
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Tea Time Chat Series - 11: Wellness Domestic Tourism in Vietnam with Mr Hylton Lipkin at Alba: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um-pHvzyRNs&t=1517s
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See the full text in the link: https://asiatravelreset.substack.com/p/asia-pacific-travel-and-tourism-report-a37?justPublished=true
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While the quality of life (QoL) concept in tourism research has gained momentum, scholarly work has focused on host QoL and tourist-host relations, rather than exploring and analysing the perception, interpretation and understanding of QoL among different social groups in a given tourist destination. Macao is a densely populated tourism destination...
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Will pilgrimage be the most popular form of tourism in the post COVID-19 period? Prof. Heather WARFIELD, Ph.D. in the US has an answer! :) I had the privilege interviewing Prof. Warfield on her insights on the following questions: -How/why did you start studying Pilgrimage, and what do you primarily teach and research? -What has been the most...
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This month's hot topics range from China’s upcoming Golden Week to the Asia vs Europe travel disparity and a Thailand-South Korea travel bubble. See the full text here: https://asiatravelreset.substack.com/p/asia-pacific-travel-and-tourism-report-66b
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July Issue's featured destinations include Bhutan, Japan, Maldives, Niue, Philippines, Saipan, South Korea, Thailand and Vietnam. Hot topics range from Gastro-Diplomacy to Vaccine Mixing to Romantic Camping. See the full text here: https://asiatravelreset.substack.com/p/asia-pacific-travel-and-tourism-report?r=jepx8&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium...
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Buddhist heritage is a major tourism resource in Asia. The historical spread of Buddhism across the Asian subcontinent over two millenniums has created a kaleidoscopic mosaic of tangible and intangible heritage related to Buddha, Buddhist religious practices, and teachings. Some of these are iconic and monumental as they were patronised by ancient...
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While most Asian borders remain locked, South Koreans are heading off on summer holidays to European destinations. They are also booking ahead for Lunar New Year 2022. So what are the reasons behind this unexpected renaissance in one of Asia’s largest outbound travel markets? This week, Gary Bowerman and Hannah Pearson welcome Jaeyeon Choe O' Rega...
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See the full text here: https://blog.geographydirections.com/2021/06/28/the-pandemics-silver-linings-for-post-covid-tourism-recovery-in-asia/?fbclid=IwAR32ZmWCxjzm6jA2G4_m3LdFXsvqtXEbYYXm57e-s7FWaZNjWGoGaRmkqUw
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The June Issue of the "Asia Pacific Travel & Tourism Report" -15 top stories of this month: 1) Is Phuket’s ‘Sandbox’ A Model to Follow? 2) EU-ASEAN Air Transport Agreement: Who Wins? 3) South Koreans Head to Europe For Summer 4) Cook Islands Seeks Tourism Recovery 5) Don’t Pack for Bali Just Yet! 6) Does South Korea Need 10 LCCs? 7) Multilateral R...
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The Asia Pacific Centre for Hospitality Research (APCHR) of the School of Hospitality and Service Management (SHSM) will be hosting its 4th Research Seminar Series of the year this coming 11 June! The details of the event are as follows: Date : 11 June 2021 (Friday) Time : 2.30pm-3.30pm (MYT) Platform : Zoom Dr Jaeyeon Choe O' Regan, PhD will pres...
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In the May Issue, featured destinations include Brunei, Cambodia, China, Guam, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, South Korea and Vietnam. Hot topics range from vaccine, sports and rural tourism to IP rights in tourism, the “legal fiction” of overseas travel and a new airline targeting Millennials. See the full report here: https://asiatravelreset.subs...
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In April, 2 travel bubbles took off, but 2 more were punctured. Other hot topics range from vaccine export bans, domestic airline innovations and a QR code travel currency to tourism target setting, business air travel and a VFR bubble. Countries featured in Issue 2 include Australia, Bali, China, Malaysia, Maldives, Russia, Sri Lanka, Thailand an...
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See the full text here: https://asiatravelreset.substack.com/p/asia-travel-reset-34-asia-pacific
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THE EFFECTS of COVID-19 vaccination programmes have led to a glimmer of hope that some of the things we used to enjoy may soon be part of our lives once again. High on many people’s priority lists will be foreign travel. In the UK, the official declaration of a “roadmap” to normality was quickly followed by a surge in online bookings for flights an...
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The effects of COVID-19 vaccination programmes have led to a glimmer of hope that some of the things we used to enjoy may soon be part of our lives once again. High on many people’s priority lists will be foreign travel. In the UK, the official declaration of a “roadmap” to normality was quickly followed by a surge in online bookings for flights a...
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Southeast Asia has seen rapid growth in tourism development. According to the World Tourism and Travel Council (WTTC), the tourism sector directly contributing 119.7 billion USD to the South East Asian economy in 2016, whilst Bangkok was the world’s most-visited city in 2018, hosting more than 22 million international tourists. As tourism becomes a...
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Despite the importance of tourism in the region, there is a dearth of research in South East Asia tourism, especially by ‘local’ scholars. More accurately, there is a lack of published work by local scholars in the mainstream and English language tourism literature. Tourism scholarship remains highly Anglo-Western-centric (Tucker & Hayes, 2019), wi...
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It is almost close to one calendar year since news of COVD-19 emerged, and since then words lockdown, pandemic and social distancing are household names. The word anthropause, in particular, has been used to describe the reduction in human mobility. When applied to the context of South Korea, we can see the country only welcomed 29,425 internationa...
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Despite increasing scholarly attention on the environmental impacts of tourism, there has been little research on the environmental impacts of religious tourism and pilgrimage. As the oldest form of tourism, millions of people continue to travel to sacred places across the globe each year. In addition, despite the continuous growth of religious fes...
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Dr. Jaeyeon Choe identifies fast-growing niches of Korean travellers during the pandemic which can potentially constitute a very lucrative market for tourism businesses and local economies in Southeast Asia as lockdowns ease. See the link for the full article: https://www.traveldailynews.asia/targeting-south-korean-tourists-after-the-pandemic-know-...
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Southeast Asian countries have been particularly cautious in opening their borders to international travelers amid the coronavirus disease (COVID-19) pandemic, and international tourism has collapsed as a result. The economic and social consequences have been severe. In Thailand, for example—where tourism contributed close to 18% of gross domestic...
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I had the privilege chatting with the editors of a new book, "Religious Tourism and the Environment" by Kiran Shinde and Daniel Olsen! This book has unique contributions as it opens up examples, case studies and discussions on the nexus between religious tourism and the environment. Massive thanks to the editors and contributors for the very nice c...
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My new blog post on "Vietnam's Domestic Tourism," based on a recent webinar has been published in the "Tourism in Times of Pandemic" Series at the Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group of the American Anthropological Association Web Content. Please see the link: http://atig.americananthro.org/vietnams-domestic-tourism/
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Utilizing 14 semi-structured interviews in a non-western context, this exploratory study examines how Filipino migrant workers’ leisure satisfaction and QoL are intertwined in Macao, China. The study reveals that Filipino migrant workers regard ‘family and friends,’ and a sense of community as central to their QoL. Regarding leisure, the Filipino m...
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https://meaningfuljourneyspodcast.podbean.com/e/pilgrimage-beyond-the-officially-sacred/
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Reporting on a recent webinar, our new blog story, "SOUTHEAST ASIA TOURISM, COVID-19 AND SILVER LININGS" at the Anthropology of Tourism Interest Group of the American Anthropological Association, has been published. We explore a few of the ‘silver linings’ of the impact COVID-19 on tourism in Southeast Asia. See the following the link: http://atig....
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Please watch our conversation via the below link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xTH6mEeTik&t=28s
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I was invited as a panellist to the Tourism Recovery through Travel Bubbles webinar organised by the Asian Development Bank. The tourism sector is one of the hardest hit sectors by the COVID-19 pandemic. Millions of jobs in tourism and related industries have already been lost, threatening the livelihoods of countless households in the region. The...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has raised public awareness of the many dimensions of wellness. Following the World Health Organization, wellness may be understood as a state of complete physical, mental, and social well-being, and not merely the absence of disease or infirmity. Wellness may also be understood as an orientation toward optimising one’s health...
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COVID-19 has hit tourism-reliant destinations hard. The Indonesian island of Bali, for example, where 70% of the population depend on tourism, has seen extensive job and income losses since it closed its borders in April. The economic impact so far has been greater than that of the Bali bombings of 2002, with losses of around 9.7 trillion rupiah (a...
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We had a very fruitful and dynamic conversation on positive future opportunities for Southeast Asia tourism, besides negative and devastating economic impacts of COVID-19. The conversation revolved around key questions: -Besides negative impacts on the economy, what would be the emerging opportunities for local tourism businesses in Southeast Asia...
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We had a fruitful session on wellness and spiritual tourism in a post covid-19 world, addressing various key issues from very diverse perspectives. Whilst wellness has become ever more important for everyone during this time, it's interesting to think about wellness tourism in the COVID context. The conversation revolved around key questions: Wha...
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Covid-19 has hit tourism-reliant destinations hard. Bali for example, has had few inbound international tourists since February 2020, leading to record job and income losses for those who work in the tourism and hospitality sector. The Indonesian Tourist Industry Association reported that there was a 93 percent decline of foreign tourist arrivals i...
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Pilgrimage beyond the Officially Sacred: Understanding the Geographies of Religion and Spirituality in Sacred Travel examines the many ways in which pilgrimage engages with sacredness, delving beyond the officially recognized, and often religiously conceived, pilgrimage sites. As scholarship examining the lived experiences of pilgrims and tourists...
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Food can be considered a substance that brings people together through its material and sensuous qualities, through affecting shared memories of people and place, and through traditions of hospitality. It is a human necessity with multiple levels of communal understanding, and conviviality. Currently, much of the UK faces the fragmentation of commu...
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Authors: Jaeyeon Choe (Bournemouth University, UK); Mahyuni Seputra (Udiknas University, Indonesia); Ni Made Eka Mahadewi (Bali Tourism Institute, Indonesia) Abstract: The United Nations emphasises poverty alleviation and sustainable communities as part of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). In Southeast Asia, tourism has been seen to allevi...
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The nature of Chinese consumption and hospitality has evolved rapidly since the post-1980s middle class adopted new lifestyles and consumption choices after the opening up of the economy and society. This study explores the logics underpinning conspicuous consumption of wine in China by way of an exploratory factor analysis of 253 respondents at a...
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The nature of Chinese consumption has evolved rapidly since the post-80s middle class adopted new lifestyles and consumption choices after the opening up of the economy and society. This study explores the logics underpinning conspicuous consumption of wine in China by way of an exploratory factor analysis of 253 respondents at a wine festival. The...
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Couchsurfing (CS) was founded in 2003 as a non-profit for those interested in creating a common resource for world-wide hospitality exchange and low cost tourism. Built around a non-market communal sharing model, it became a for-profit in August 2011. Applying a discourse relational model approach, this study characterizes how competing discursive...
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The nature of Chinese consumption has evolved rapidly since the post-80s middle class adopted new lifestyles and consumption choices after the opening up of the economy and society. This study explores the logics underpinning conspicuous consumption of wine in China by way of an exploratory factor analysis of 253 respondents at a wine festival. The...
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This paper explores festivalscape factors at an international wine and dine festival in Macau, a Special Administrative Region (SAR) of the People’s Republic of China. The main goal of this study is to assess satisfaction with various festivalscape factors and identify the relations between the festivalscape construct and behavioral intention. The...
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The UK, like many western liberal democracies, currently faces the fragmentation of communities based on different political views, some of which relate directly to immigration and refugees. Migrant populations often experience their leisure worlds as fragmented as a consequence of displacement. This paper explores a series of multicultural lunches...
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Through a combination of theoretical and case-study chapters, this volume focuses on religious routes and trails in terms of their spiritual, cultural and economic meanings, and considers the opportunities and challenges arising from their recent increase in popularity. The book is divided into three sections. Part I (chapters 1-5) deals with conce...
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Established in 2013 the Women’s Academic Network (WAN) at Bournemouth University is a non-corporate, collegial nexus of women academics and female postgraduate researchers drawn from across the four Faculties. The aim of WAN is to act as a support group, while promoting the profiles of women scholars and lobbying on a range of institutional barrier...
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Wine festival research has primarily focused on tourism potential and economic impact in Western wine destinations, with few studies seeking to understand what motivates those to attend a festival in a "nontraditional" wine destination. An onsite survey study (N = 366) was conducted at the 2012 Dalian International Wine and Dine Festival, China. Fa...
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New decentralised collaborative platforms are said to be challenging and redesigning traditional business models and reinventing how the tourism business works. Collectively termed the ‘collaborative economy’, these platforms are increasingly intersecting with the established tourism industry and how a tourist interacts with host communities, desti...
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Collectively termed the “Sharing Economy”, collaborative platforms are said to be challenging and redesigning traditional business models and ridding the tourism industry of monopolies and resource inefficiencies as they efficiently allocate assets and human resources. This paper explores the global “disruptive” brand Airbnb by utilizing the concep...
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As its market and society open up, China has transformed itself from a closed agrarian socialist economy to an urban state and an economic force. This has released accumulated tourism demand, led to the development of a diversified industry, and the spread of university and vocational courses in this field. However, the industry faces challenges to...
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This book aims to demonstrate to the reader the intrinsic details that have a crucial role to play within the religious tourism and pilgrimage management process. This 2nd edition lays a foundation for scholars, practitioners and students who do not study management, but who are concerned with the appearance and development of religious tourism and...
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The current study employs the leisure motivation scale to examine motivations of non-Buddhists visiting Buddhist temples. Specifically, this investigation builds on tourism literature to explore the motivations of non-Buddhists visiting Buddhist temples in Los Angeles, California. Motivations to Buddhist temples are of particular interest given the...
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This paper focuses on Buddhism in America, an neglected area of inquiry in anthropological study. There is a need for modern ethnographic studies to shed light on historical issues, paradigms for comparative inquiry, and thus, explore the impact of Buddhism on modern American society (Glazier, 1997). The enormous growth of Buddhism in the last quar...
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Although rugby union, a full-contact sport, is usually considered as a leisure activity in the domain of young people, the motivations and effects of rugby union played by middle-aged men are not clear. The purpose of this study is to examine the motivations and participation effects of middle-aged American men participating in rugby in the USA. Th...
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Religious activities religion can be a part of reducing tension, alleviating anxiety, and creating the hope that the performance will resolve them (Malefijt, 1968; Geertz, 1966; Glazier, 1997). Similarly, people often engage in recreation for reducing stress, improving moods, and enhancing mental and physical health. As such, religion and recreatio...
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Increasing numbers of people are participating in reflexive forms of spiritual travel. Rites of passage and intensification are becoming voluntary, and so is religion. Arguably, individuals travel to achieve mental and social escape. Their quests to religious sites are self-motivated, not obligated. Because of their mobility, Americans constantly e...

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