Cora Un In Wong
Biographic Data
| ID | 3100575 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Cora Un In Wong |
| GIVEN NAMES | Cora Un In |
| FAMILY NAME | Wong |
| SIGNATURE | WONG C U I |
| AFFILIATIONS | Macao Polytechnic University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-5523-4355 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 27 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 61 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 27 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 5 |
Deconstructing the heritagization of red tourism
Heritagization has been much canvassed in heritage tourism, with the focus centering on the potential impacts and mostly the negative side effects generated via the heritage meaning-making process. Few studies have examined the shifting process from ‘themed’ to ‘theme’ in heritagization. That is, how a heritage space has been gradually shifted away from its natural identity/character as a ‘themed space’ into the direction of a man-made ‘theme pla…
“I Like This Art, So I Like This Hotel”—A Mixed Methods Investigation on How Hotel Art Engages Customers in Luxury Hotels
Decorating hotels with art pieces is a favored practice, particularly in luxury hotels. However, research on the investigation of how hotel artworks engage customers and promote their hotel experience is limited. Therefore, a sequential mixed methods approach was employed to address this gap by incorporating two studies. First, a qualitative study (interviews, n = 15) was employed to understand how art engages customers. Second, a quantitative st…
Exploring Larp (Live Action Role Play) Tourism as a Liminal Experience
Inspired by the recent craze on LARP (live action role play) tourism, the study deconstructs LARP tourism experiences via examining the liminal experience through in‐depth interviews with 21 LARP tourists. Unlike conventional tourism products that are grounded in reality, the cardinal product of LARP tourism centers on the fictitious scripts, while tourism settings become the backdrop. As the story unfolds, a hyperreal bubble is created to encaps…
Linking Personal Nostalgia, Subjective Vitality, and Tourist Wellbeing—A Mixed‐Methods Approach
Personal nostalgia can potentially contribute to tourists' subjective vitality and wellbeing, yet extant studies have seldom examined how it happens. This study adopts a mixed‐methods approach to uncover the transmission mechanism. Through qualitative interviews ( N = 12), the study found that existential authenticity is the underlying power that triggers one's personal nostalgia and links it with positive emotions and subjective vitality. A ques…
Bibliometric Analysis on Chinese Tour Guiding Research 2000–2025
The guided tour industry in China has evolved much since the turn of the century, with many new developments that have caused tremendous changes of Chinese tourists’ travel patterns. The pandemic has further accelerated the evolution in addition to technological advancement. While Chinese tour guiding studies continue to flourish, little is known about how this realm of knowledge production has evolved. The current article presents a bibliometric…
Tourism potential assessment and product–market nexus in developing ethnic minority destinations
This research note evaluates the suppliers’ perceived tourism potential of destination attributes and discusses the product and market portfolio identification issues in ethnic minority destinations at their infancy development stages. Findings from a field study in Congjiang County, China, show the emphasis on different values between the public and private suppliers – cultural values for the former and product values for the latter – may confus…
Relationship between childhood socio-economic status and wellness tourism intention
Extant studies on wellness tourism have focused on tourists’ motivations and current economic circumstances, while less attention has been given to the impact of childhood socio-economic status on wellness tourism intention. Under the theoretical lens of life history theory, this study examined the influence of tourists’ childhood socio-economic status on their wellness tourism intention via questionnaire surveys (N1 = 530, N2 = 524) using partia…
The innovation of social governance and the enlightenment for the governance of Macao’s social organizations in the digital age
In the new era, an important component of China’s social governance system construction is to strengthen and innovate social governance to improve the ability and level of social governance in China. To ensure the long-term stability of the country and the well-being of the vast majority of the people, it is necessary to be adept at strengthening social governance, continuously improve and improve the governance system that is suitable for the de…
Building an intelligent diabetes Q&A system with knowledge graphs and large language models
Introduction: This paper introduces an intelligent question-answering system designed to deliver personalized medical information to diabetic patients. By integrating large language models with knowledge graphs, the system aims to provide more accurate and contextually relevant medical guidance, addressing the limitations of traditional healthcare systems in handling complex medical queries. Methods: The system combines a Neo4j-based knowledge gr…
How occupational embeddedness contributes to tour guides’ commitment and citizenship behaviour – a mixed-method enquiry
Despite that tour guides are important but unstable tourism workers, a few studies have looked into the well-being of the tour guiding workforce by understanding their affective commitment and citizenship behaviour. Based on the theory of embeddedness and by a mixed-method approach, this study fills this gap by probing into how the three dimensions of occupational embeddedness – fit, link and sacrifice influence tour guides’ affective commitment,…
Artification in tourism
While much has been canvassed on what makes something aesthetically pleasing and attractive to tourists, as well as the role of art in tourism and the hospitality industry, there is a lack of examination of the process of tourism artification. This research note illustrates how artification would work step-by-step in a tourism context, in which the intrinsic value of art is transfigured into the extrinsic value of a tourism product. Ten elements …
Exploring Tourism Autobiographical Memory and Psychological Richness
This study aims to investigate how tourism autobiographical memory influences tourists' psychological richness based on the transmission model of inspiration. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS‐SEM) was conducted to examine the proposed hypotheses on 419 valid questionnaires collected from China. The PLS‐SEM results showed that tourism autobiographical memory and inspiration were the significant positive predictors of tourist…
Study on the coupled coordination relationship and constraining factors of Macau’s gambling-tourism-economic development from the perspective of urban high-quality development
This inquiry endeavors to meticulously examine the intricate dynamics of the symbiotic developmental interplay among the gaming, tourism, and economic sectors in Macau. Utilizing the methodology of deviation standardization, the data undergoes scrupulous processing, invoking the entropy method to ascertain the weights of diverse evaluative indices. The developmental trajectories of Macau’s gaming, tourism, and economic domains spanning the years …
Research on the Spatial Distribution Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Educational Facilities Based on POI Data
This study aims to provide a precise assessment of the distribution of educational facilities within the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, serving as a crucial foundation for managing educational resource allocation and enhancing the quality of educational services. Utilizing a kernel density analysis, global autocorrelation analysis, and geographic detectors, this research systematically analyzes the spatial distribution characteristic…
Building a sustainable food security evaluation system for the Yangtze River Economic Belt
[Objective]In order to explore the sustainable food security level in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, ensure food security and sustainable development of agricultural modernization, it is necessary to establish a scientific food security evaluation system to safeguard local food security.[Methods]This paper takes the food system of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China as the research object, based on the food security research results at hom…
Coercive geographies
This symposium examines the relations between biopower, destination governance and tourism. Biopower, a Foucauldian concept, refers to political strategies based on humanity’s biological features. In the simplest of terms, it is applied via biopolitical mandates that govern life of a given population. Contemporary tourism exemplifies the exertion of biopower over the mobility of travellers, as was evidenced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to a …
Changing roles of tour guides
The guided tour industry has undergone drastic changes in China along with the socio-economic, demographic, and technological developments of the past decades, leading to new demands on the tour guide profession. The COVID-19 pandemic has further accelerated the changes. Yet little is known regarding how the tour guides’ roles have evolved. This study aims to fill this gap through exploring new roles and services undertaken by tour guides, drawin…
Developing and Marketing Tourist Attractions in Ethnic Minority Destinations
While the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the increasing popularity of rural and ethnic tourism, little research has examined what ethnic minority resources should be included as tourist attractions in their development stage. Building upon the seminal work of Leiper’s tourist attraction system, this paper reveals what and how ethnic resources are selected and included in tour itineraries, in particular in rural areas where tourism development has s…
Tour guides’ dilemma under the pandemic
COVID-19 has struck the tourism industry and its professions with unprecedented severity. The tour guides are among the most impacted group in the industry, with many now facing the dilemma of whether to remain guides or switch to other professions. This study aims to identify the mitigators that keep tour guides from switching to other professions. It also provides insights regarding their current situation and how they cope with the unexpected …
Sojourners in Macau
Since the theoretical lens of lifestyle mobilities was introduced, there has been a growing interest in the role of mobility in weakening rigid binaries such as home/away and work/leisure. This article draws on this theoretical perspective to explore how sojourners in Macau blur spatial and temporal binaries in their adaptation to their new and temporary situation. Individual thematic interviews with 17 sojourners were conducted, revealing their …
Social interaction in visitor control at a Chinese Buddhist monastic site
This article discusses some aspects and consequences of the distinctive way visitor control is practiced at an important Chinese Buddhist monastic site. While there is some literature on how specific religious and sacred sites open to lay visitors perform this function, there has been little research done on how visitor control styles differ across sites pertaining to different religions. The present article reports on an ethnographic study of so…
The Big Buddha of Hong Kong
The Tian Tan Buddha is the core of a tourism site on Lantau Island, Hong Kong, around which a cable car ride, the Po-Lin monastery and its museum, and the village of Ngong Ping have come to comprise an eclectic set of tourism nuclei that 'accidentally' became the 'Buddhist theme park' of Hong Kong due to the spatial juxtaposition in an isolated site of these disconnected and even dissonant components built at different times by different jurisdic…
The Preservation of Macau's Intangible Colonial Heritage
The heritage literature by and large suggests that heritage, in both its tangible and intangible forms, possesses the power to confer cultural identity to people(s), and the desirability of preserving heritage is often justified along those lines. When it was enlisted into the Macau Intangible Heritage List in 2012, Patúa became one of the special administrative region's 10 official intangible heritages. Patúa is a Luso–Asian Creole spoken by the…
Cultural tourism as salvation for petty capitalists
‘Petty capitalism’ refers to the informal self-employment engaged in by the unskilled poor in order to earn or augment their income. In the tourism industry, they work as unlicensed souvenir vendors, street-food hawkers, drivers, prostitutes, etc. The pedicab drivers of Macao belong to this category of petty capitalists. Drawing on thematic interviews supplemented by observational data, this article documents how the pedicab drivers of Macao surv…
Buddhism and Tourism
Day tour itineraries
Buddhism and Tourism
Changing roles of tour guides
The guided tour industry has undergone drastic changes in China along with the socio-economic, demographic, and technological developments of the past decades, leading to new demands on the tour guide profession. The COVID-19 pandemic has further accelerated the changes. Yet little is known regarding how the tour guides’ roles have evolved. This study aims to fill this gap through exploring new roles and services undertaken by tour guides, drawin…
Sojourners in Macau
Since the theoretical lens of lifestyle mobilities was introduced, there has been a growing interest in the role of mobility in weakening rigid binaries such as home/away and work/leisure. This article draws on this theoretical perspective to explore how sojourners in Macau blur spatial and temporal binaries in their adaptation to their new and temporary situation. Individual thematic interviews with 17 sojourners were conducted, revealing their …
The Big Buddha of Hong Kong
The Tian Tan Buddha is the core of a tourism site on Lantau Island, Hong Kong, around which a cable car ride, the Po-Lin monastery and its museum, and the village of Ngong Ping have come to comprise an eclectic set of tourism nuclei that 'accidentally' became the 'Buddhist theme park' of Hong Kong due to the spatial juxtaposition in an isolated site of these disconnected and even dissonant components built at different times by different jurisdic…
Tour guides’ dilemma under the pandemic
COVID-19 has struck the tourism industry and its professions with unprecedented severity. The tour guides are among the most impacted group in the industry, with many now facing the dilemma of whether to remain guides or switch to other professions. This study aims to identify the mitigators that keep tour guides from switching to other professions. It also provides insights regarding their current situation and how they cope with the unexpected …
Tourist information center staff as knowledge brokers
Coercive geographies
This symposium examines the relations between biopower, destination governance and tourism. Biopower, a Foucauldian concept, refers to political strategies based on humanity’s biological features. In the simplest of terms, it is applied via biopolitical mandates that govern life of a given population. Contemporary tourism exemplifies the exertion of biopower over the mobility of travellers, as was evidenced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to a …
Cultural tourism as salvation for petty capitalists
‘Petty capitalism’ refers to the informal self-employment engaged in by the unskilled poor in order to earn or augment their income. In the tourism industry, they work as unlicensed souvenir vendors, street-food hawkers, drivers, prostitutes, etc. The pedicab drivers of Macao belong to this category of petty capitalists. Drawing on thematic interviews supplemented by observational data, this article documents how the pedicab drivers of Macao surv…
Developing and Marketing Tourist Attractions in Ethnic Minority Destinations
While the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the increasing popularity of rural and ethnic tourism, little research has examined what ethnic minority resources should be included as tourist attractions in their development stage. Building upon the seminal work of Leiper’s tourist attraction system, this paper reveals what and how ethnic resources are selected and included in tour itineraries, in particular in rural areas where tourism development has s…
Social interaction in visitor control at a Chinese Buddhist monastic site
This article discusses some aspects and consequences of the distinctive way visitor control is practiced at an important Chinese Buddhist monastic site. While there is some literature on how specific religious and sacred sites open to lay visitors perform this function, there has been little research done on how visitor control styles differ across sites pertaining to different religions. The present article reports on an ethnographic study of so…
Tourist information center staff as knowledge brokers
Day tour itineraries
Buddhism and Tourism
The Preservation of Macau's Intangible Colonial Heritage
The heritage literature by and large suggests that heritage, in both its tangible and intangible forms, possesses the power to confer cultural identity to people(s), and the desirability of preserving heritage is often justified along those lines. When it was enlisted into the Macau Intangible Heritage List in 2012, Patúa became one of the special administrative region's 10 official intangible heritages. Patúa is a Luso–Asian Creole spoken by the…
Cultural tourism as salvation for petty capitalists
‘Petty capitalism’ refers to the informal self-employment engaged in by the unskilled poor in order to earn or augment their income. In the tourism industry, they work as unlicensed souvenir vendors, street-food hawkers, drivers, prostitutes, etc. The pedicab drivers of Macao belong to this category of petty capitalists. Drawing on thematic interviews supplemented by observational data, this article documents how the pedicab drivers of Macao surv…
The Big Buddha of Hong Kong
The Tian Tan Buddha is the core of a tourism site on Lantau Island, Hong Kong, around which a cable car ride, the Po-Lin monastery and its museum, and the village of Ngong Ping have come to comprise an eclectic set of tourism nuclei that 'accidentally' became the 'Buddhist theme park' of Hong Kong due to the spatial juxtaposition in an isolated site of these disconnected and even dissonant components built at different times by different jurisdic…
Social interaction in visitor control at a Chinese Buddhist monastic site
This article discusses some aspects and consequences of the distinctive way visitor control is practiced at an important Chinese Buddhist monastic site. While there is some literature on how specific religious and sacred sites open to lay visitors perform this function, there has been little research done on how visitor control styles differ across sites pertaining to different religions. The present article reports on an ethnographic study of so…
Sojourners in Macau
Since the theoretical lens of lifestyle mobilities was introduced, there has been a growing interest in the role of mobility in weakening rigid binaries such as home/away and work/leisure. This article draws on this theoretical perspective to explore how sojourners in Macau blur spatial and temporal binaries in their adaptation to their new and temporary situation. Individual thematic interviews with 17 sojourners were conducted, revealing their …
Tour guides’ dilemma under the pandemic
COVID-19 has struck the tourism industry and its professions with unprecedented severity. The tour guides are among the most impacted group in the industry, with many now facing the dilemma of whether to remain guides or switch to other professions. This study aims to identify the mitigators that keep tour guides from switching to other professions. It also provides insights regarding their current situation and how they cope with the unexpected …
Developing and Marketing Tourist Attractions in Ethnic Minority Destinations
While the COVID-19 pandemic has led to the increasing popularity of rural and ethnic tourism, little research has examined what ethnic minority resources should be included as tourist attractions in their development stage. Building upon the seminal work of Leiper’s tourist attraction system, this paper reveals what and how ethnic resources are selected and included in tour itineraries, in particular in rural areas where tourism development has s…
Building a sustainable food security evaluation system for the Yangtze River Economic Belt
[Objective]In order to explore the sustainable food security level in the Yangtze River Economic Belt, ensure food security and sustainable development of agricultural modernization, it is necessary to establish a scientific food security evaluation system to safeguard local food security.[Methods]This paper takes the food system of the Yangtze River Economic Belt in China as the research object, based on the food security research results at hom…
Coercive geographies
This symposium examines the relations between biopower, destination governance and tourism. Biopower, a Foucauldian concept, refers to political strategies based on humanity’s biological features. In the simplest of terms, it is applied via biopolitical mandates that govern life of a given population. Contemporary tourism exemplifies the exertion of biopower over the mobility of travellers, as was evidenced during the COVID-19 pandemic, and to a …
Changing roles of tour guides
The guided tour industry has undergone drastic changes in China along with the socio-economic, demographic, and technological developments of the past decades, leading to new demands on the tour guide profession. The COVID-19 pandemic has further accelerated the changes. Yet little is known regarding how the tour guides’ roles have evolved. This study aims to fill this gap through exploring new roles and services undertaken by tour guides, drawin…
Study on the coupled coordination relationship and constraining factors of Macau’s gambling-tourism-economic development from the perspective of urban high-quality development
This inquiry endeavors to meticulously examine the intricate dynamics of the symbiotic developmental interplay among the gaming, tourism, and economic sectors in Macau. Utilizing the methodology of deviation standardization, the data undergoes scrupulous processing, invoking the entropy method to ascertain the weights of diverse evaluative indices. The developmental trajectories of Macau’s gaming, tourism, and economic domains spanning the years …
Research on the Spatial Distribution Characteristics and Influencing Factors of Educational Facilities Based on POI Data
This study aims to provide a precise assessment of the distribution of educational facilities within the Guangdong–Hong Kong–Macao Greater Bay Area, serving as a crucial foundation for managing educational resource allocation and enhancing the quality of educational services. Utilizing a kernel density analysis, global autocorrelation analysis, and geographic detectors, this research systematically analyzes the spatial distribution characteristic…
Tourism potential assessment and product–market nexus in developing ethnic minority destinations
This research note evaluates the suppliers’ perceived tourism potential of destination attributes and discusses the product and market portfolio identification issues in ethnic minority destinations at their infancy development stages. Findings from a field study in Congjiang County, China, show the emphasis on different values between the public and private suppliers – cultural values for the former and product values for the latter – may confus…
Relationship between childhood socio-economic status and wellness tourism intention
Extant studies on wellness tourism have focused on tourists’ motivations and current economic circumstances, while less attention has been given to the impact of childhood socio-economic status on wellness tourism intention. Under the theoretical lens of life history theory, this study examined the influence of tourists’ childhood socio-economic status on their wellness tourism intention via questionnaire surveys (N1 = 530, N2 = 524) using partia…
The innovation of social governance and the enlightenment for the governance of Macao’s social organizations in the digital age
In the new era, an important component of China’s social governance system construction is to strengthen and innovate social governance to improve the ability and level of social governance in China. To ensure the long-term stability of the country and the well-being of the vast majority of the people, it is necessary to be adept at strengthening social governance, continuously improve and improve the governance system that is suitable for the de…
Building an intelligent diabetes Q&A system with knowledge graphs and large language models
Introduction: This paper introduces an intelligent question-answering system designed to deliver personalized medical information to diabetic patients. By integrating large language models with knowledge graphs, the system aims to provide more accurate and contextually relevant medical guidance, addressing the limitations of traditional healthcare systems in handling complex medical queries. Methods: The system combines a Neo4j-based knowledge gr…
How occupational embeddedness contributes to tour guides’ commitment and citizenship behaviour – a mixed-method enquiry
Despite that tour guides are important but unstable tourism workers, a few studies have looked into the well-being of the tour guiding workforce by understanding their affective commitment and citizenship behaviour. Based on the theory of embeddedness and by a mixed-method approach, this study fills this gap by probing into how the three dimensions of occupational embeddedness – fit, link and sacrifice influence tour guides’ affective commitment,…
Artification in tourism
While much has been canvassed on what makes something aesthetically pleasing and attractive to tourists, as well as the role of art in tourism and the hospitality industry, there is a lack of examination of the process of tourism artification. This research note illustrates how artification would work step-by-step in a tourism context, in which the intrinsic value of art is transfigured into the extrinsic value of a tourism product. Ten elements …
Exploring Tourism Autobiographical Memory and Psychological Richness
This study aims to investigate how tourism autobiographical memory influences tourists' psychological richness based on the transmission model of inspiration. Partial least squares structural equation modeling (PLS‐SEM) was conducted to examine the proposed hypotheses on 419 valid questionnaires collected from China. The PLS‐SEM results showed that tourism autobiographical memory and inspiration were the significant positive predictors of tourist…
Deconstructing the heritagization of red tourism
Heritagization has been much canvassed in heritage tourism, with the focus centering on the potential impacts and mostly the negative side effects generated via the heritage meaning-making process. Few studies have examined the shifting process from ‘themed’ to ‘theme’ in heritagization. That is, how a heritage space has been gradually shifted away from its natural identity/character as a ‘themed space’ into the direction of a man-made ‘theme pla…
“I Like This Art, So I Like This Hotel”—A Mixed Methods Investigation on How Hotel Art Engages Customers in Luxury Hotels
Decorating hotels with art pieces is a favored practice, particularly in luxury hotels. However, research on the investigation of how hotel artworks engage customers and promote their hotel experience is limited. Therefore, a sequential mixed methods approach was employed to address this gap by incorporating two studies. First, a qualitative study (interviews, n = 15) was employed to understand how art engages customers. Second, a quantitative st…
Exploring Larp (Live Action Role Play) Tourism as a Liminal Experience
Inspired by the recent craze on LARP (live action role play) tourism, the study deconstructs LARP tourism experiences via examining the liminal experience through in‐depth interviews with 21 LARP tourists. Unlike conventional tourism products that are grounded in reality, the cardinal product of LARP tourism centers on the fictitious scripts, while tourism settings become the backdrop. As the story unfolds, a hyperreal bubble is created to encaps…
Tourism (21 works) · Political science (14 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (13 works) · Business (12 works) · Sociology (12 works) · Geography (7 works) · Marketing (7 works) · Psychology (7 works) · Computer Science (6 works) · Economics (6 works)