Hye Lim Sin
Biographic Data
| ID | 785343 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Hye Lim Sin |
| GIVEN NAMES | Hye Lim |
| FAMILY NAME | Sin |
| SIGNATURE | SIN H L |
| AFFILIATIONS | National University of Singapore |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7850-993X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 243 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 7 |
Best Practices in Sustainable Tourism Education? A Critical Collaborative Ethnography Reflection
Much has been written about the nomenclature of sustainable tourism education as a vehicle to prepare students for sustainability-centric careers and futures. Yet, despite the wide body of work surrounding the broad conceptualisations of sustainable tourism, the evaluation of sustainable tourism education has largely been nested in the perspectives of student feedback and outcomes. Through a critical collaborative ethnography reflection, we seek …
Steering change
This paper advances a critical rethinking of rural tourism governance by foregrounding its affective, relational, and negotiated dimensions. Drawing on seven years of embedded autoethnographic fieldwork in Azheke Village, a UNESCO-listed Hani settlement in Yunnan, China, we examine the role of universities as deeply implicated actors in the co-production of alternative governance regimes. It situates governance not as a technocratic exercise in i…
Travel as rite, privilege as right
Graduation trips have become a deeply embedded rite of passage for university students in Singapore, marking the transition from student life to adulthood. Often framed as a well-earned reward for academic effort, these trips reflect broader meritocratic ideals that equate success with individual achievement. However, this paper argues that grad trips are not merely celebratory experiences but also sites where class distinctions are negotiated an…
Looking inward
Southeast Asian governments were forced to reposition their tourism markets as a result of border lockdowns brought on by the COVID-19 virus. We examine the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries’ marketing strategies intended to bolster their respective domestic tourism industries during the pandemic years of 2020–2022. This paper sketches three approaches that dominated the region at the time: building national communit…
Chinese Outbound Tourists and the Changing Political Economies of Cambodia, Malaysia, and Singapore
The global tourism industry was severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. New economic, social and political realities have emerged, and destinations are facing the changes. This research compares three popular destinations among Chinese tourists (i.e. Cambodia, Malaysia and Singapore) to illuminate key political economic shifts of tourism in Southeast Asia in relation to China amid of the unfolding 'new normal.' By conducting a qualitative rev…
When in China, don’t drink because the Chinese no longer do
This commentary responds to Jayne and Valentine's (2024) call to rethink the geographies of alcohol, drinking, and drunkenness. It introduces recent observations on the prevalence and absence of alcohol drinking within academic research and workspaces in China, and in doing so highlights how a relational approach to the geographies of alcohol is needed in overcoming existing impasses in alcohol studies
If not now, then never’
The grad trip entails travelling overseas with one’s closest group of friends to commemorate the completion of tertiary and formal education and is bookended by the carefree freedom in one’s youth and the commencement of an adulthood defined by formal employment. This article conceptualises the grad trip as a phenomenon in youth tourism, based on empirical study of how it is experienced in Singapore. Our conceptualisation of the timing and durati…
Between food and spectacle
Tourism geographies in the 'Asian Century
From the British Century of the 1800s to the American Century of the 1900s to the contemporary Asian Century, tourism geographies are deeply entangled in broader shifts in geopolitical power (Luce, 1999; Scott, 2008; Shenkar, 2006). This paper considers what the transition into the Asian Century means for some of the most urgent issues of our time such as sustainable development, human rights, gender equality, and environmental change. We critiqu…
Going on holiday only to come home
Family holidays have become a ubiquitous cultural norm – imagined as the epitome of family togetherness and encapsulated through the production of 'happy family' photographs. The pressure to conform to 'naturalized' idealizations of the family is underpinned by pervasive family ideology that remain hegemonic, despite the changing structures of modern family life. But how exactly does the 'happy family' materialise through tourism practices? What …
Geopolitical anxieties of tourism
Bringing the political geography of tourism to bear on responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, this commentary reveals how the geopolitical anxieties of tourism are mediated by historical geographies of race as well as contemporary geoeconomic relations and the broader pivot to the Asia-Pacific region
When in China, drink as the Chinese do
2020). When in China, drink as the Chinese do: methodological considerations of alcohol consumption in research and fieldwork. Social & Cultural Geography: Vol. 21, Special Issue: Living Protocols, pp. 1029-1036
Helicopter Parenting, Parental Psychological and Behavioral Control Revisited
This study examined the construct validity of helicopter parenting by comparing this construct with other close relevant constructs of psychological control and behavioral control, using a cross-cultural comparison approach. Data were collected from college students in the United States ( N = 380) and South Korea ( N = 204). Multi-group structural equation modeling analyses indicated that helicopter parenting was a correlated yet separate constru…
Voluntouring on Facebook and Instagram
This article studies photographic practices in ‘voluntourism’ alongside the rise of social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. The advent and widespread use of social media platforms today complicates the ethics of photographic practices, as the ease of sharing photographs accentuates and stirs up the unequal relations between the photographer and the photographed. From a conceptual standpoint, the moral and altruistic underpinnings of v…
International volunteerism and development in Asia-Pacific
In Asia, and across the "global South", volunteerism has grown enormously in the last two decades. Hundreds of thousands of people now undertake work on development projects in poorer areas of the global South, and volunteerism has become a key way in which cross-cultural encounters form relations of development between poor and rich countries and between marginal and empowered subjects. Reflecting this growth, geographical discussions of volunte…
Selling Ethics
This article explores the grammars of responsibility through a discourse analysis of selected travel guidebooks and argues that critical theory and popular media have so far failed to bridge the gap between ideologies and practices of responsibilities. As it stands, an unspoken assumption that a particular set of practices (e.g., buying goods labeled as fair trade or boycotting sweatshop-produced clothing) is perpetuated as undeniably responsible…
Traveling for a cause
Over the last decade there has been a rise in ‘volunteer tourism’ or ‘voluntourism,’ which is characterized by the combination of travel and volunteering, typically in social or economic development or conversation oriented projects. The papers in this special issue theoretically and empirically examine the dynamic interplay between volunteer tourism and the broader expansion of market-mediated social justice campaigns. Also examined is the poten…
Realities of doing responsibilities
With the ever increasing popularity of tours, flights and hotels that put ethics and responsibility at the forefront of their operations, what exactly does it mean to be responsible in tourism? Is it really so easy to be responsible? What actually happens on the ground in places where one tries to be responsible? Using fieldwork primarily conducted in/on Thailand, this research aims to unpack notions of responsibility in tourism, and argues that …
Touring responsibility
Who are we responsible to? Locals’ tales of volunteer tourism
Volunteer Tourism—“involve Me and I Will Learn”
Who are we responsible to? Locals’ tales of volunteer tourism
Volunteer Tourism—“involve Me and I Will Learn”
Traveling for a cause
Over the last decade there has been a rise in ‘volunteer tourism’ or ‘voluntourism,’ which is characterized by the combination of travel and volunteering, typically in social or economic development or conversation oriented projects. The papers in this special issue theoretically and empirically examine the dynamic interplay between volunteer tourism and the broader expansion of market-mediated social justice campaigns. Also examined is the poten…
Touring responsibility
Geopolitical anxieties of tourism
Bringing the political geography of tourism to bear on responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, this commentary reveals how the geopolitical anxieties of tourism are mediated by historical geographies of race as well as contemporary geoeconomic relations and the broader pivot to the Asia-Pacific region
Tourism geographies in the 'Asian Century
From the British Century of the 1800s to the American Century of the 1900s to the contemporary Asian Century, tourism geographies are deeply entangled in broader shifts in geopolitical power (Luce, 1999; Scott, 2008; Shenkar, 2006). This paper considers what the transition into the Asian Century means for some of the most urgent issues of our time such as sustainable development, human rights, gender equality, and environmental change. We critiqu…
Realities of doing responsibilities
With the ever increasing popularity of tours, flights and hotels that put ethics and responsibility at the forefront of their operations, what exactly does it mean to be responsible in tourism? Is it really so easy to be responsible? What actually happens on the ground in places where one tries to be responsible? Using fieldwork primarily conducted in/on Thailand, this research aims to unpack notions of responsibility in tourism, and argues that …
Going on holiday only to come home
Family holidays have become a ubiquitous cultural norm – imagined as the epitome of family togetherness and encapsulated through the production of 'happy family' photographs. The pressure to conform to 'naturalized' idealizations of the family is underpinned by pervasive family ideology that remain hegemonic, despite the changing structures of modern family life. But how exactly does the 'happy family' materialise through tourism practices? What …
International volunteerism and development in Asia-Pacific
In Asia, and across the "global South", volunteerism has grown enormously in the last two decades. Hundreds of thousands of people now undertake work on development projects in poorer areas of the global South, and volunteerism has become a key way in which cross-cultural encounters form relations of development between poor and rich countries and between marginal and empowered subjects. Reflecting this growth, geographical discussions of volunte…
When in China, drink as the Chinese do
2020). When in China, drink as the Chinese do: methodological considerations of alcohol consumption in research and fieldwork. Social & Cultural Geography: Vol. 21, Special Issue: Living Protocols, pp. 1029-1036
Voluntouring on Facebook and Instagram
This article studies photographic practices in ‘voluntourism’ alongside the rise of social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. The advent and widespread use of social media platforms today complicates the ethics of photographic practices, as the ease of sharing photographs accentuates and stirs up the unequal relations between the photographer and the photographed. From a conceptual standpoint, the moral and altruistic underpinnings of v…
Travel as rite, privilege as right
Graduation trips have become a deeply embedded rite of passage for university students in Singapore, marking the transition from student life to adulthood. Often framed as a well-earned reward for academic effort, these trips reflect broader meritocratic ideals that equate success with individual achievement. However, this paper argues that grad trips are not merely celebratory experiences but also sites where class distinctions are negotiated an…
Between food and spectacle
If not now, then never’
The grad trip entails travelling overseas with one’s closest group of friends to commemorate the completion of tertiary and formal education and is bookended by the carefree freedom in one’s youth and the commencement of an adulthood defined by formal employment. This article conceptualises the grad trip as a phenomenon in youth tourism, based on empirical study of how it is experienced in Singapore. Our conceptualisation of the timing and durati…
Helicopter Parenting, Parental Psychological and Behavioral Control Revisited
This study examined the construct validity of helicopter parenting by comparing this construct with other close relevant constructs of psychological control and behavioral control, using a cross-cultural comparison approach. Data were collected from college students in the United States ( N = 380) and South Korea ( N = 204). Multi-group structural equation modeling analyses indicated that helicopter parenting was a correlated yet separate constru…
Volunteer Tourism—“involve Me and I Will Learn”
Who are we responsible to? Locals’ tales of volunteer tourism
Touring responsibility
Realities of doing responsibilities
With the ever increasing popularity of tours, flights and hotels that put ethics and responsibility at the forefront of their operations, what exactly does it mean to be responsible in tourism? Is it really so easy to be responsible? What actually happens on the ground in places where one tries to be responsible? Using fieldwork primarily conducted in/on Thailand, this research aims to unpack notions of responsibility in tourism, and argues that …
Traveling for a cause
Over the last decade there has been a rise in ‘volunteer tourism’ or ‘voluntourism,’ which is characterized by the combination of travel and volunteering, typically in social or economic development or conversation oriented projects. The papers in this special issue theoretically and empirically examine the dynamic interplay between volunteer tourism and the broader expansion of market-mediated social justice campaigns. Also examined is the poten…
Selling Ethics
This article explores the grammars of responsibility through a discourse analysis of selected travel guidebooks and argues that critical theory and popular media have so far failed to bridge the gap between ideologies and practices of responsibilities. As it stands, an unspoken assumption that a particular set of practices (e.g., buying goods labeled as fair trade or boycotting sweatshop-produced clothing) is perpetuated as undeniably responsible…
Voluntouring on Facebook and Instagram
This article studies photographic practices in ‘voluntourism’ alongside the rise of social media platforms like Facebook and Instagram. The advent and widespread use of social media platforms today complicates the ethics of photographic practices, as the ease of sharing photographs accentuates and stirs up the unequal relations between the photographer and the photographed. From a conceptual standpoint, the moral and altruistic underpinnings of v…
International volunteerism and development in Asia-Pacific
In Asia, and across the "global South", volunteerism has grown enormously in the last two decades. Hundreds of thousands of people now undertake work on development projects in poorer areas of the global South, and volunteerism has become a key way in which cross-cultural encounters form relations of development between poor and rich countries and between marginal and empowered subjects. Reflecting this growth, geographical discussions of volunte…
Geopolitical anxieties of tourism
Bringing the political geography of tourism to bear on responses to the COVID-19 pandemic, this commentary reveals how the geopolitical anxieties of tourism are mediated by historical geographies of race as well as contemporary geoeconomic relations and the broader pivot to the Asia-Pacific region
When in China, drink as the Chinese do
2020). When in China, drink as the Chinese do: methodological considerations of alcohol consumption in research and fieldwork. Social & Cultural Geography: Vol. 21, Special Issue: Living Protocols, pp. 1029-1036
Helicopter Parenting, Parental Psychological and Behavioral Control Revisited
This study examined the construct validity of helicopter parenting by comparing this construct with other close relevant constructs of psychological control and behavioral control, using a cross-cultural comparison approach. Data were collected from college students in the United States ( N = 380) and South Korea ( N = 204). Multi-group structural equation modeling analyses indicated that helicopter parenting was a correlated yet separate constru…
Between food and spectacle
Tourism geographies in the 'Asian Century
From the British Century of the 1800s to the American Century of the 1900s to the contemporary Asian Century, tourism geographies are deeply entangled in broader shifts in geopolitical power (Luce, 1999; Scott, 2008; Shenkar, 2006). This paper considers what the transition into the Asian Century means for some of the most urgent issues of our time such as sustainable development, human rights, gender equality, and environmental change. We critiqu…
Going on holiday only to come home
Family holidays have become a ubiquitous cultural norm – imagined as the epitome of family togetherness and encapsulated through the production of 'happy family' photographs. The pressure to conform to 'naturalized' idealizations of the family is underpinned by pervasive family ideology that remain hegemonic, despite the changing structures of modern family life. But how exactly does the 'happy family' materialise through tourism practices? What …
When in China, don’t drink because the Chinese no longer do
This commentary responds to Jayne and Valentine's (2024) call to rethink the geographies of alcohol, drinking, and drunkenness. It introduces recent observations on the prevalence and absence of alcohol drinking within academic research and workspaces in China, and in doing so highlights how a relational approach to the geographies of alcohol is needed in overcoming existing impasses in alcohol studies
If not now, then never’
The grad trip entails travelling overseas with one’s closest group of friends to commemorate the completion of tertiary and formal education and is bookended by the carefree freedom in one’s youth and the commencement of an adulthood defined by formal employment. This article conceptualises the grad trip as a phenomenon in youth tourism, based on empirical study of how it is experienced in Singapore. Our conceptualisation of the timing and durati…
Chinese Outbound Tourists and the Changing Political Economies of Cambodia, Malaysia, and Singapore
The global tourism industry was severely affected by the COVID-19 pandemic. New economic, social and political realities have emerged, and destinations are facing the changes. This research compares three popular destinations among Chinese tourists (i.e. Cambodia, Malaysia and Singapore) to illuminate key political economic shifts of tourism in Southeast Asia in relation to China amid of the unfolding 'new normal.' By conducting a qualitative rev…
Travel as rite, privilege as right
Graduation trips have become a deeply embedded rite of passage for university students in Singapore, marking the transition from student life to adulthood. Often framed as a well-earned reward for academic effort, these trips reflect broader meritocratic ideals that equate success with individual achievement. However, this paper argues that grad trips are not merely celebratory experiences but also sites where class distinctions are negotiated an…
Looking inward
Southeast Asian governments were forced to reposition their tourism markets as a result of border lockdowns brought on by the COVID-19 virus. We examine the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries’ marketing strategies intended to bolster their respective domestic tourism industries during the pandemic years of 2020–2022. This paper sketches three approaches that dominated the region at the time: building national communit…
Best Practices in Sustainable Tourism Education? A Critical Collaborative Ethnography Reflection
Much has been written about the nomenclature of sustainable tourism education as a vehicle to prepare students for sustainability-centric careers and futures. Yet, despite the wide body of work surrounding the broad conceptualisations of sustainable tourism, the evaluation of sustainable tourism education has largely been nested in the perspectives of student feedback and outcomes. Through a critical collaborative ethnography reflection, we seek …
Steering change
This paper advances a critical rethinking of rural tourism governance by foregrounding its affective, relational, and negotiated dimensions. Drawing on seven years of embedded autoethnographic fieldwork in Azheke Village, a UNESCO-listed Hani settlement in Yunnan, China, we examine the role of universities as deeply implicated actors in the co-production of alternative governance regimes. It situates governance not as a technocratic exercise in i…
Sociology (16 works) · Tourism (16 works) · Political science (15 works) · Law (14 works) · Tourism, Volunteerism, and Development (14 works) · Law (13 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (11 works) · Politics (6 works) · Public relations (6 works) · Social science (6 works)