Tourism as a territorial strategy: The case of China and Taiwan

Rowen, Ian

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2014.02.006

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“…The role of tourism in establishing peace is reported in numerous studies (Becken & Carmignani, 2016;Blanchard & Higgins-Desbiolles, 2013b;D'Amore, 1988;Farmaki, 2017;Gelbman, 2019;Moufakkir & Kelly, 2010). The contribution of tourism in reconciliation efforts in post-conflict settings has also been highlighted in cases including the Former Yugoslavia (Causevic & Lynch, 2011), Cambodia (Winter, 2008), Vietnam (Gillen, 2014), Burundi (Novelli et al, 2012), Cyprus (Farmaki, 2017), Korean Peninsula (Cho, 2007;Kim & Prideaux, 2003), Palestine (Isaac, 2009), Afghanistan (Durko & Petrick, 2016) and China and Taiwan (Rowen, 2014). In contrast, there is another perspective that questions the validity of the causal relationship between tourism and peace (Hall, 1994(Hall, , 2005Khalilzadeh, 2018;Pratt & Liu, 2016;Salazar, 2006).…”

Section: Peace Through Tourism and Sanctionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism, peace and sustainability in sanctions-ridden destinations

Seyfi

Hall

Vo‐Thanh

2020

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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Despite the widespread use of sanctions as a foreign policy tool in the absence of armed intervention and as a means to promote peace, there is notable absence of research on the effects of sanctions on the peacebuilding capacity of tourism and their relationship to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This situation is surprising given that both sanctions and tourism are promoted as a force for peace and reconciliation processes. Drawing upon international relations and political science and via semi-structured interviews with key stakeholders in the Iranian tourism and hospitality industry, this study investigates whether sanctions contribute to peace and create an environment suitable for tourism development. The findings indicate how the imposition, relaxation and then reimposition of sanctions by international state actors as a means of peace have paralyzed the Iranian tourism industry through its psychological, sectoral, and societal effects and mobility restrictions. The consequences of sanctions and their sharp contrast with the SDGs are also explored. This study fills a significant gap in tourism research by examining the implications of the application of a widely used coercive geopolitical tool of statecraft in relation to the peace and tourism nexus.

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Section: Peace Through Tourism and Sanctionsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Tourism, peace and sustainability in sanctions-ridden destinations

Seyfi

Hall

Vo‐Thanh

2020

Journal of Sustainable Tourism

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“…The policy of opening the market to Chinese tourists not only increases a largest source of tourism to Taiwan, but also increases interaction and understanding, and prompts Taiwan's tourism to promote its economic benefits [4]. With Taiwanese hosts, and Taiwanese hosts' alienation, tourists from China appreciate Taiwanese for their manners and kindness [5]. Taiwan and China originate from the same culture, but the Chinese characters in Taiwan remain traditional, which is a Chinese symbol for root.…”

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Sustainable Tourism Planning for Taiwanese in Administrative Effects with Respect to Chinese Arrivals

Tsaur

Chen

2018

Sustainability

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It has been a crucial achievement for most of the destinations to open up and develop a new inbound market, which means a great opportunity to increase the arrivals and economic benefits. The mighty Chinese outbound market is a welcomed resource but not always the assurance of the economics growth and industries’ profits. While foreseeing the excessive arrivals and low-price groups are harmful to the tourism business and society, the criticism and negative impression shall be prevented in advance. With the considerations of sustainable tourism and a good relationship with China, Taiwan has established a comprehensive administrative tourism mechanism on receptions of travel agencies. The unique mechanism was designed to foster the healthy business models, to construct the win-win political and economic situations, and to ease the possible impacts. By applying the Importance–Performance Analysis, this study reveals the administrative direction that needs to be revised. Among these control requests, the reasonable group fee is the key to fitting the anticipation of receptions of travel agencies. This study further proposes the Importance–Support Analysis and Importance–Performance–Support Analysis frames to enhance the validity of the Importance.

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“…China and Taiwan have maintained a fragile relationship; periodic diplomatic patchworks have kept the Taiwan-island separate from the communist mainland of China since the year 1949 (Rowen, 2014). However, both China and Taiwan have experienced rapid economic growth for more than three decades.…”

Section: Impact Of Growth Of China On Taiwanmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The number of Taiwanese visiting and working in China is very high when compared with the number of permanent residents and visitors from China to Taiwan. Normalization of long-stymied direct transport links and tourism policies is increasingly widening the base of concurrent exchanges beyond business interest to civic individuals and groups (Rowen, 2014).…”

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China’s Growth and Its Effects on Taiwan: What Does the Future Hold

Feng¹

2015

UCPA

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In the study, the researcher investigated the strategy that has been behind China's growth. It has been found that China was using a "smile strategy". The strategy is to ensure peaceful co-existence between China and its neighbors.China had used this strategy to connect with most of its neighbors to encourage business, trade, and investment.Globalization has played a crucial role in the growth and development of China. China has always encouraged globalization and has connected with some of the countries in the neighborhood. This is because it depends on foreign investments for half of its imports and exports. Also, Taiwan and China have very tight economic ties. They depend on each other for economic development and Taiwan is among China's top business partners. In future, China plans to establish more links across the world that will enable it to develop economically. It is also expected to rise as a superpower and work with the rest of the superpowers in decision-making on issues affecting the world.

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Tourism as a territorial strategy: The case of China and Taiwan

Cited by 60 publications

References 21 publications

Tourism, peace and sustainability in sanctions-ridden destinations

Tourism, peace and sustainability in sanctions-ridden destinations

Sustainable Tourism Planning for Taiwanese in Administrative Effects with Respect to Chinese Arrivals

China’s Growth and Its Effects on Taiwan: What Does the Future Hold

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