Urban Tourism in China

ISBN-13: 9780415623827 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 224 str.

Mimi Li; Wu Bihu

Opis

China has witnessed a dramatic development of tourism in urban context in the past 30 years, especially with its success in hosting the Beijing Olympic Games in 2008 and the Shanghai World Exposition in 2010. This collection of research reports examines issues such as consumer behaviour, the social impact of tourism, and urban destination image.This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of China Tourism Research

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Urban Tourism in China Mimi Li and Bihu Wu  2. Measuring Tourism Spillover Effects among Cities: Improvement of the Gap Model and a Case Study of the Yangtze River Delta Shan Li, Min Xiao, Kun Zhang, Jing Wu, and Zheng Wang  3. Urban Morphology and Tourism Planning: Exploring the City Wall in Pingyao, China Feifan (Philip) Xie and Kai Gu  4. The Impacts of Heritage Tourism on Public Space in Historic Towns: A Case Study of Lijiang Ancient Town Xiao-bo Su and Chun-yuan Huang  5. Leisure in an Urban Environment – A Perspective of University Students Shan Yang, Honggen Xiao, and Chau Yeung Tse  6. A Residential Survey on Urban Tourism Impacts in Harbin Yu Wang, Gang Li, and Xuemei Bai  7. The Social Impacts of Tourism in a Beijing Hutong—A Case of Environmental Change Chris Ryan and Huimin Gu  8. A Study of Inbound Business Tourists’ Shopping Behaviour and Influencing Factors – A Case Study of the Canton Fair in Guangzhou Qiuju Luo and Xiangyu Lu  9. Visitor and Resident Images of Qingdao, China as a Tourism Destination Shaojun Ji  10. Developing a Framework for Assessing Visitors’ Responses to Chinese Cities Philip L. Pearce, Yongzhi Wu, and Aram Son

O autorze

Mimi Li, PhD., is Assistant Professor in the School of Hotel and Tourism Management at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University. Her research interests include tourism planning, destination marketing, consumer behaviour in hospitality and tourism, and China tourism. Bihu (Tiger) Wu, PhD., is Professor and Director of the Centre for Recreation and Tourism Research at Peking University. His research interests include tourism geography, city tourism and resort planning, destination marketing, tourism policy, and tourism education.