This book focuses on cultures that shape contemporary Asian tourist experiences. The book consists of 10 chapters, which are organised into two themes: Collectivist Culture and Wellbeing. The chapters cover emerging forms of tourism (e.g., wedding and bridal photography tourism, roots/affinity tourism and shamanic tourism), investigate a wide range of topics (e.g., tourist motivation, tourist anxiety and decision making) and consider Asian perspectives from diverse backgrounds (e.g., China, Hong Kong, Singapore, Taiwan, South Korea, Japan, Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, and Nepal). The book provides tourism researchers, students and practitioners a consolidated, comprehensive and updated reference for the understanding of Asian tourists.

"The book has fruitfully brought together different perspectives and advances current understanding of Asian tourists from the history to current trends, from motivations to constraints, from the influence of cultureand religion on travel behaviour to the search of social freedom through travel, and from destination choice to destination avoidance. The most important contribution of this book is that it has built an intellectual platform for many Asian scholars to share their ideas and works with the international tourism academy". - Professor Kaye Chon, Editor-in-Chief, Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research; Dean, School of Hotel and Tourism Management, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.

Autorentext
Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. She is a Networking Committee Member of the International Council on Hotel, Restaurant, and Institutional Education (ICHRIE) and is on the executive committee for the Council for Australasian Tourism and Hospitality Education (CAUTHE). She researches emerging trends in women and family travel and tourism, as well as consumer behaviour (tourists and guests), services marketing, and qualitative research methods.

Elaine Yang is a researcher at the Department of Tourism, Sport and Hotel Management, Griffith University, Queensland, Australia. Her doctoral research project investigates the gendered risk perception of Asian solo female travellers. She researches in the areas of gender studies and critical approaches in tourism.

Inhalt
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Chapter 1. Asian Cultures and Contemporary Tourism: Locating Asia, Cultural Differences and TrendsElaine Chiao Ling Yang, Jenna Seung Hyun Lee and Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore
Section 1: CollectivismChapter 2. Ethnic Reunions in Tourism: The Route to RootsEunice Tan and Barkathunnisha Abu Bakar
Chapter 3. Visiting Friends and Relatives (VFR) Tourism Decisions Within Collective Cultures: Insights from Taiwanese Hosts Residing in Brisbane, AustraliaAaron Tham and Maria Raciti
Chapter 4. Same, Same, but Different: The Influence of Children in Asian Family TravelRyan Yung and Catheryn Khoo-Lattimore
Chapter 5. A Brief History of Chinese Wedding and Bridal Photography Tourism: Through the Lens of Top Chinese Wedding PhotographersJane Yuting Zhuang and Andre M. Everett
Chapter 6. Motivated Muslims: Exploring Travel Career Patterns among Indonesian TouristsHera Oktadiana and Philip L. Pearce
Section 2: WellbeingChapter 7. The Meaning of Spa Tourism for JapaneseHiromi Kamata
Chapter 8. My story with New Zealand wine: Female Chinese Tourists' Wine Experiences in New ZealandLin Huang and Charles Samuel Johnston
Chapter 9. Shamanic Rituals and South Asian Tourist PerceptionsNitasha Sharma
Chapter 10. To Go or Not To Go: A Typology of Tourist Destination AvoidanceFandy Tjiptono and Lin Yang
Chapter 11. Chinese Travelling Overseas and Their AnxietiesYue Ma, Can-Seng Ooi and Anne Hardy