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Taiwanese hosts and Chinese tourists: Is tourism really a force for peace?

紀錄類型:	書目-電子資源 : Monograph/item
正題名/作者:	Taiwanese hosts and Chinese tourists: Is tourism really a force for peace?/
作者:	Harper, Clinton.
出版者:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2016,
面頁冊數:	171 p.
附註:	Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 56-01.
Contained By:	Masters Abstracts International56-01(E).
標題:	Asian studies. -
電子資源:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=10161576
ISBN:	9781369164398

Taiwanese hosts and Chinese tourists: Is tourism really a force for peace?
Harper, Clinton.

Taiwanese hosts and Chinese tourists: Is tourism really a force for peace? - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2016 - 171 p.

Source: Masters Abstracts International, Volume: 56-01.

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Wyoming, 2016.

With the recent lifting of Taiwan's travel ban on mainland Chinese in 2008, Chinese tourists have begun visiting Taiwan in multitudes. In less than seven years, mainland Chinese tourist arrivals have increased more than ten-fold, rising from 330,000 in 2008 to over 4,000,000 in 2015. Increasingly able to travel, the "Chinese tourist wave" has become the world's largest source of outbound tourists and Taiwan's primary market, creating unprecedented amounts of cross-cultural, host-tourist interactions between Taiwan and China. While the global tourism industry grows exponentially, international organizations and heads of state profess that tourism fosters peace and understanding through the contact that it produces. Utilizing the contact hypothesis theory to evaluate tourism's peace producing potential, previous research has claimed that host-tourist interactions can positively affect attitudes, promote peace, and reduce prejudices. However, as Chinese outbound tourism to Taiwan is a relatively new phenomenon, research on the peace-producing tendencies of tourism within Cross-Strait relations remains limited. Through field-research conducted in one of Taiwan's largest tourist cities, Hualien, this project uses interviews and participant observation to attempt to answer the question of whether or not increased host-tourist interactions between China and Taiwan are positively affecting Hualien residents' attitudes towards mainland Chinese. Using a limited scope to analyze tourism management, socioeconomic and environmental effects, and host-tourist contact, this research suggests that the influx of Chinese tourists to Taiwan has been improperly managed, leading to overcrowding, inflation, and negative changes to Hualien's landscape. Furthermore, while high-level political tensions between China and Taiwan undermine meaningful progress towards peace, Chinese group tourists seemingly face a negative image of being loud, rude and inconsiderate. Chinese individual tourists however possess a more positive perception in Taiwan, considered to embody more appropriate behavior and genuine interest in local culture. Results suggest that though promoted as a force for increasing understanding, peace through tourism is not automatic and is subject to a myriad of influential factors that transcend simple intergroup contact.

ISBN: 9781369164398Subjects--Topical Terms:

1571829
Asian studies.

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