Zeng-Xian Liang
Biographic Data
| ID | 3099877 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Zeng-Xian Liang |
| GIVEN NAMES | Zeng-Xian |
| FAMILY NAME | Liang |
| SIGNATURE | LIANG Z |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sun Yat-sen University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7459-660X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 14 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 50 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 14 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Towards an inclusive trajectory of touristification? A longitudinal case study of Heshun, China
Touristification is a widely used concept but has often been applied too narrowly or treated as a homogenous and exclusive single-stage process. This paper proposes a new analytical framework that reconceptualizes touristification as a multi-stage and multi-trajectory process integrating five key dimensions: (1) tourism development, (2) physical space alteration, (3) social space shift, (4) symbolic space modification, and (5) governance logic. U…
Migration of Tourism Entrepreneurs: How Mobility and Business Performance Shape Quality of Life
This study examines the migration motivations, mobility patterns, and business performance of tourism entrepreneur migrants (TEMs) and their impact on quality of life (QoL). Using qualitative methods, including in-depth interviews and non-participant observation, the study analyzes personal internal factors (PIFs) and external environmental factors (EEFs) factors affecting TEMs. Key findings include: (1) TEMs in Zhuhai are driven by both ‘busines…
Social inclusion of domestic tourism migrants: Evidence from four destinations in China
This study investigates social inclusion strategies and how they differ among various domestic tourism migrants. Through data collection in four Chinese destination cities, the current study: (1) develops a two-dimensional model of the social inclusion strategies of domestic tourism migrants, which includes four strategies (assimilate into local society, assimilate into parallel society, assimilate into reconstructed society, and non-assimilating…
Government Tourism Attention (GTA): Reevaluating governmental impact on tourism development in China
Exploring Co-Creation Experiences and Crowding in Theme Parks: A Comparative Study of Generation Y and Generation Z Visitors
Social inclusion and subjective well-being of tourism entrepreneurial migrants: Mobility patterns as moderators
Despite growing interest in various groups of tourism-led migrants, limited research has concerned whether and how social inclusion contributes to tourism entrepreneurial migrants’ lives. This study explores the dimension of social inclusion and its effect on tourism entrepreneurial migrants’ subjective well-being and further tests the moderating effects of mobility patterns. The main effects were analyzed with structural equation models and the …
What is a Theme Park? A Synthesis and Research Framework
Theme parks have attracted extensive scholarly attention within and outside the tourism literature. These parks have been studied from various stances, yet a uniform definition and integrated framework remain lacking for theme park research and practice. Based on a comprehensive review and research synthesis, this article defines a theme park as a dedicated space featuring five main characteristics: thematic identity, closed space with controlled…
Determinants of improving small tourism business performance and entrepreneurs’ quality of life: Evidence from a three-year longitudinal study
This research attempts to identify the determinants and impacts of performance on small tourism entrepreneurs’ quality of life and tourism attitudes. Consistent three-year data were collected from 198, 191, and 194 small tourism entrepreneurs in Global Geopark Yuntai Mountain, China. The results found that either entrepreneur characteristics, including business skills, locus of control, autonomy, social relations, and autonomy, or enterprise char…
Moving for a good life: Tourism mobility and subjective well-being of Chinese retirement migrants
Retirees' mobility patterns from origin cities to tourist destinations in pursuit of a "good life" have become a worldwide research topic as studies originating in Western countries spread to emerging economies. This study investigates if and how retirees' movement patterns influence their subjective well-being (SWB) and whether groups with different mobility patterns exhibit unique SWB. Data are drawn from a sample of 546 retirement migrants age…
A longitudinal study of residents’ attitudes toward tourism development
Deepening the understanding of residents’ attitudes and related influencing factors is integral to tourism destinations’ long-term sustainable development. Given the transitional nature of residents’ attitudes, longitudinal research on the topic – despite having been recommended – remains lacking. This study applied a longitudinal design over a 4-year period to assess the effects of residents’ satisfaction with tourism development and quality of …
Residents ’ social dilemma in sustainable heritage tourism: The role of social emotion, efficacy beliefs and temporal concerns
Increasingly, residents in world heritage sites (WHS) are facing dilemmas by choosing between the short-term self-interests and long-term collective benefits associated with heritage tourism development. Through the lens of social dilemma theory, this study investigated the role of social emotions in affecting resident dilemma considerations related to supporting sustainable heritage tourism development. Employing a mixed-methods approach, 402 re…
Is price most important? Healthcare tourism in Southeast Asia
Healthcare tourism is a general term for traveling to another country to seek healthcare services. It spread from Western countries to emerging Southeast Asian nations in the past decade because of a series of factors. Price is likely considered as one of the important factors among most healthcare tourism providers and politicians. However, healthcare tourists tend to consider more before making a decision. According to some early studies, healt…
Residents’ quality of life and attitudes toward tourism development in China
Tourism gentrification in Shenzhen, China: Causes and Socio-Spatial Consequences
Tourism gentrification is a consequence of both 'gentrification generalized' and the rapid development of the global tourism industry. The geographical spread of tourism gentrification from Western countries to emerging countries like China inevitably challenges existing explanations. Using the case of the Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town (OCT) community in China, this study examines the causes and socio-spatial consequences of tourism gentrificati…
Tourism gentrification in Shenzhen, China: Causes and Socio-Spatial Consequences
Tourism gentrification is a consequence of both 'gentrification generalized' and the rapid development of the global tourism industry. The geographical spread of tourism gentrification from Western countries to emerging countries like China inevitably challenges existing explanations. Using the case of the Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town (OCT) community in China, this study examines the causes and socio-spatial consequences of tourism gentrificati…
Residents’ quality of life and attitudes toward tourism development in China
Moving for a good life: Tourism mobility and subjective well-being of Chinese retirement migrants
Retirees' mobility patterns from origin cities to tourist destinations in pursuit of a "good life" have become a worldwide research topic as studies originating in Western countries spread to emerging economies. This study investigates if and how retirees' movement patterns influence their subjective well-being (SWB) and whether groups with different mobility patterns exhibit unique SWB. Data are drawn from a sample of 546 retirement migrants age…
Determinants of improving small tourism business performance and entrepreneurs’ quality of life: Evidence from a three-year longitudinal study
This research attempts to identify the determinants and impacts of performance on small tourism entrepreneurs’ quality of life and tourism attitudes. Consistent three-year data were collected from 198, 191, and 194 small tourism entrepreneurs in Global Geopark Yuntai Mountain, China. The results found that either entrepreneur characteristics, including business skills, locus of control, autonomy, social relations, and autonomy, or enterprise char…
Is price most important? Healthcare tourism in Southeast Asia
Healthcare tourism is a general term for traveling to another country to seek healthcare services. It spread from Western countries to emerging Southeast Asian nations in the past decade because of a series of factors. Price is likely considered as one of the important factors among most healthcare tourism providers and politicians. However, healthcare tourists tend to consider more before making a decision. According to some early studies, healt…
Tourism gentrification in Shenzhen, China: Causes and Socio-Spatial Consequences
Tourism gentrification is a consequence of both 'gentrification generalized' and the rapid development of the global tourism industry. The geographical spread of tourism gentrification from Western countries to emerging countries like China inevitably challenges existing explanations. Using the case of the Shenzhen Overseas Chinese Town (OCT) community in China, this study examines the causes and socio-spatial consequences of tourism gentrificati…
Residents’ quality of life and attitudes toward tourism development in China
Is price most important? Healthcare tourism in Southeast Asia
Healthcare tourism is a general term for traveling to another country to seek healthcare services. It spread from Western countries to emerging Southeast Asian nations in the past decade because of a series of factors. Price is likely considered as one of the important factors among most healthcare tourism providers and politicians. However, healthcare tourists tend to consider more before making a decision. According to some early studies, healt…
Residents ’ social dilemma in sustainable heritage tourism: The role of social emotion, efficacy beliefs and temporal concerns
Increasingly, residents in world heritage sites (WHS) are facing dilemmas by choosing between the short-term self-interests and long-term collective benefits associated with heritage tourism development. Through the lens of social dilemma theory, this study investigated the role of social emotions in affecting resident dilemma considerations related to supporting sustainable heritage tourism development. Employing a mixed-methods approach, 402 re…
A longitudinal study of residents’ attitudes toward tourism development
Deepening the understanding of residents’ attitudes and related influencing factors is integral to tourism destinations’ long-term sustainable development. Given the transitional nature of residents’ attitudes, longitudinal research on the topic – despite having been recommended – remains lacking. This study applied a longitudinal design over a 4-year period to assess the effects of residents’ satisfaction with tourism development and quality of …
Social inclusion and subjective well-being of tourism entrepreneurial migrants: Mobility patterns as moderators
Despite growing interest in various groups of tourism-led migrants, limited research has concerned whether and how social inclusion contributes to tourism entrepreneurial migrants’ lives. This study explores the dimension of social inclusion and its effect on tourism entrepreneurial migrants’ subjective well-being and further tests the moderating effects of mobility patterns. The main effects were analyzed with structural equation models and the …
What is a Theme Park? A Synthesis and Research Framework
Theme parks have attracted extensive scholarly attention within and outside the tourism literature. These parks have been studied from various stances, yet a uniform definition and integrated framework remain lacking for theme park research and practice. Based on a comprehensive review and research synthesis, this article defines a theme park as a dedicated space featuring five main characteristics: thematic identity, closed space with controlled…
Determinants of improving small tourism business performance and entrepreneurs’ quality of life: Evidence from a three-year longitudinal study
This research attempts to identify the determinants and impacts of performance on small tourism entrepreneurs’ quality of life and tourism attitudes. Consistent three-year data were collected from 198, 191, and 194 small tourism entrepreneurs in Global Geopark Yuntai Mountain, China. The results found that either entrepreneur characteristics, including business skills, locus of control, autonomy, social relations, and autonomy, or enterprise char…
Moving for a good life: Tourism mobility and subjective well-being of Chinese retirement migrants
Retirees' mobility patterns from origin cities to tourist destinations in pursuit of a "good life" have become a worldwide research topic as studies originating in Western countries spread to emerging economies. This study investigates if and how retirees' movement patterns influence their subjective well-being (SWB) and whether groups with different mobility patterns exhibit unique SWB. Data are drawn from a sample of 546 retirement migrants age…
Government Tourism Attention (GTA): Reevaluating governmental impact on tourism development in China
Exploring Co-Creation Experiences and Crowding in Theme Parks: A Comparative Study of Generation Y and Generation Z Visitors
Towards an inclusive trajectory of touristification? A longitudinal case study of Heshun, China
Touristification is a widely used concept but has often been applied too narrowly or treated as a homogenous and exclusive single-stage process. This paper proposes a new analytical framework that reconceptualizes touristification as a multi-stage and multi-trajectory process integrating five key dimensions: (1) tourism development, (2) physical space alteration, (3) social space shift, (4) symbolic space modification, and (5) governance logic. U…
Migration of Tourism Entrepreneurs: How Mobility and Business Performance Shape Quality of Life
This study examines the migration motivations, mobility patterns, and business performance of tourism entrepreneur migrants (TEMs) and their impact on quality of life (QoL). Using qualitative methods, including in-depth interviews and non-participant observation, the study analyzes personal internal factors (PIFs) and external environmental factors (EEFs) factors affecting TEMs. Key findings include: (1) TEMs in Zhuhai are driven by both ‘busines…
Social inclusion of domestic tourism migrants: Evidence from four destinations in China
This study investigates social inclusion strategies and how they differ among various domestic tourism migrants. Through data collection in four Chinese destination cities, the current study: (1) develops a two-dimensional model of the social inclusion strategies of domestic tourism migrants, which includes four strategies (assimilate into local society, assimilate into parallel society, assimilate into reconstructed society, and non-assimilating…
Tourism (13 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (12 works) · China (9 works) · Business (7 works) · Geography (7 works) · Destinations (6 works) · Psychology (6 works) · Economics (5 works) · Marketing (5 works) · Migration, Aging, and Tourism Studies (5 works)