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State-directed tourism urbanisation in China's Hengqin

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  • Ong, Chin-Ee
  • Liu, Yi

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This paper examines an intense form of tourism urbanisation that is produced by the dual operations of strong Chinese-style socialist instructions and ambitious capitalistic experimentations. Drawing on a decade-long recurring ethnography at Hengqin, this study traces state-directed discourses and how these have been discursively, practically performed, and negotiated. Specifically, we found Hengqin's massive tourism development was intended to create an urban tourism destination for a state-directed purpose -the integration of Macao and Hong Kong with mainland China. However, state-directed processes are seldom uncritically consumed and performed by planners, stakeholders, and residents. This paper furthers understandings of tourism urbanisation in terms of state-directedness, everyday negotiations, and sheds light on the contributions of tourism studies to the understandings of urban processes.

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  • Ong, Chin-Ee & Liu, Yi, 2022. "State-directed tourism urbanisation in China's Hengqin," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 94(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:anture:v:94:y:2022:i:c:s0160738322000305
    DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2022.103379
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