Tourism Case Studies Asia-Pacific Region

Supplementary Content
Contributors
Foreword
Introduction
Section 1: Environmentally Sustainable Practices for Tourism
1: Sustainable Hiking Through the Green Trails: Examples of Exceptional
Responsible Practices
2: Sustainable Tourism and Stakeholders’ Satisfaction in Batulayang
Tourism Village, Bogor, Indonesia
3: Overtourism and Tourism Sustainable Management in the Komodo National
Park, Indonesia
4: Adopting Sustainable Practices at an Island Ecotourism Destination in Sabah
Through a Sea Turtle Conservation Project
Section 2: Cultural Preservation and Identity Through Tourism
5: Improving Cultural Sustainable Tourism: Evidence of Saba Budaya Baduy
from the Baduy Tribe, Indonesia
6: Hawker Centres, Cultural Heritage and Tourism – A Case Study of Lau Pa Sat,
Singapore
7: Experiencing Cambodia’s Living Arts Through Tourism
8: Aikido Tourism Development in Tanabe, Wakayama, Japan
9: Forging Social Identity: The Making of a Destination – A Case of the Bullet
Baba Shrine in Marwar, Rajasthan, India
10: Lived Religious Practice and Tourism Perceptions of Southern Buddhist
Monks in an Ethnic Tourism Community in Xishuangbanna, China
Section 3: Empowerment Through Tourism
11: Community-Based Ecotourism and Conservation in Tboli, Philippines
12: The Guesthouse Phenomenon in the Maldives – Development and Issues
13: Breaking Barriers, Building Futures: The Transformative Power of Tourism
in Empowering Women in Munsiyari, India
14: Community-Based Tourism as a Sustainable Approach to Tourism
Development in Jibhi Valley, Himachal Pradesh, India
15: Business Strategy and Development Towards Sustainability: A Story of Ban
Bo Chet Luk Community Entrepreneurship, Thailand
16: Baan Khoa Lak: A Case Study on Sustainable Rural Development Through
Community-Based Tourism and Natural Resource Conservation
Section 4: Resilience and Recovery Through Tourism
17: Green Recovery and Regenerative Tourism: The Success Story of Miso Walai
Homestay in Building a Resilient Rural Tourism Destination
18: The Realities of Peripheral Handicraft Livelihoods in the Face of Disasters
in Vanuatu
19: Resilience and Loyalty in the Face of Adversity: A Case of Local Employees
in Kerala’s Backwater Tourism
20: Responses from Businesses in Rural Communities Recovering from
the 2011 Tohoku Disasters During the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
21: ‘Not All Fun and Games’: The Case of the Victoria 2026 Commonwealth Games
22: The Bojo Algouinsan Ecotourism Initiative: Crisis Mitigation Through
Community Tourism Development
23: Tourism Development Opportunities in Post War: A Case of Jaffna, Sri Lanka
Section 5: Critical Studies in Tourism
24: The Growth of Tourism and ‘Development’ in an Indigenous Setting:
Exploring a Case of the Chittagong Hill Tracts, Bangladesh
25: Equal Opportunities in Rural Tourism Entrepreneurship:
Challenges in Malaysia
26: Elephant-Based Tourism in Nepal: The Key to Reducing Human Poverty or a
Tool to Commodify Endangered Species?
27: Haunting Memory of Forgotten History: A Case Study of World War II
‘Comfort Stations’ in the Philippines as a Tourism Resource Featured
in Selected Filipino Films
28: ‘We Invite You for Lunch’: Post/Colonial Subjectivities and Performances of
Tourism in Puducherry, India
Section 6: Management and Policy
29: Meteorological Trends and the Travel Sector in Bali 1991–2020
30: Evidence Use in Policymaking: The Case of a Hotel Policy in Western Australia
Section 7: Emerging Trends in Tourism
31: Surfing in Hainan Island: An Emerging Surfing Tourism Destination in China
32: Learning by Doing: Educational Tourism at Mount Danxiashan
Conclusion
Index

Taufik Abdullah

Taufik Abdullah, Ph.D. currently serves as an assistant professor and the head of the Tourism Marketing Management Study Program within the Faculty of Social Science Education at Universitas Pendidikan Indonesia (UPI). He has been a faculty member at UPI since 2014. Taufik's academic journey commenced with an associate degree in Food Production Management, followed by bachelor's and master's degrees in Tourism Management. He further pursued his academic interests by earning a Ph.D. in Tourism from the University of Otago, New Zealand. Prior to his academic career, Taufik garnered experience across various roles in the foodservice industry and held the position of Head of a Hotel Management program at a private tourism college in Bandung, Indonesia. Throughout his academic pursuits, Taufik has fostered a deep interest in critical tourism studies, focusing particularly on issues of marginalization, power dynamics, and empowerment within the tourism industry. His research endeavors also encompass tourism marketing, food tourism, and tourism entrepreneurship.

Reni Polus

Reni Polus is a Lecturer in the Business School at Edinburgh Napier University, Scotland. Her career began in tourism, working as a tour guide before transitioning to academia. Reni spent 8 years teaching in Malaysia's higher education sector before pursuing her PhD at the University of Otago, New Zealand. After completing her doctoral studies, she joined the Department of Tourism at the University of Otago as a Teaching Fellow. Her research focuses on spirituality within tourism and leisure experiences, with particular interests in volunteering, pilgrimage, dark tourism and heritage tourism.