David Airey and King Chong's new book on Tourism in China

Tuesday 3 May 2011

In April, David Airey and co-author King Chong’s book on “Tourism in China: policy and development since 1949” was published by Routledge.  The book explores how tourism has developed in China and how policy and policy-making have played a key part in this process. It sets out a new conceptual framework for policy-making and it uses this to provide explanations for the developments. 

The empirical work is based on in-depth interviews with key informants in China and on government documents and official sources not generally available in the international literature. As noted in the book’s Forward the “volume offers important insights into China’s tourism as well as contributing to a wider pattern of debate about the respective roles of government policy and the market”. King Chong was awarded his PhD at Surrey in 2007 and is currently Project Fellow at the Public Policy Research Institute, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University.