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Current state of China tourism research
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posted on 2014-01-01, 00:00 authored by D Leung, Gang LiGang Li, L H N Fong, R Law, A LoAlong with the tremendous growth of tourism development in China after its successful hosting of two international mega-events (i.e. the 2010 Shanghai World Expo and the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games), a modest body of academic research on tourism in China has been developed since the start of the second decade of the new millennium. To supplement the continuous development of China's tourism industry, this study presents a review of 147 research articles from tourism journals during the period 2010-2012. Through content analysis, the empirical findings indicate that tourist behaviour and experience was the most researched theme, followed by culture and heritage studies. The trend of research collaboration, particularly international collaboration, was evident among the analysed studies. This study also presents the diversity in recent research in the realm of tourism in China in terms of research context, geographical coverage, data collection and analysis method, and institutional contribution. © 2013 Taylor & Francis.
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Current issues in tourismVolume
17Issue
8Pagination
679 - 704Publisher
Routledge (Taylor & Francis)Location
Abingdon, EnglandPublisher DOI
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1368-3500eISSN
1747-7603Language
engPublication classification
C Journal article; C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journalCopyright notice
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