Tingzhen Chen
Biographic Data
| ID | 6295138 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Tingzhen Chen |
| GIVEN NAMES | Tingzhen |
| FAMILY NAME | Chen |
| SIGNATURE | CHEN T |
| AFFILIATIONS | James Cook University |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-6634-2757 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 34 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 11 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Unpacking tourism blind boxes
Tourism blind boxes represent tourism products – typically hotel, airline, and package tours – that are purchased without knowing their exact nature or details. Despite its continuous expansion in size and scope worldwide, little is understood about the overall experiences of consuming tourism blind boxes. This study adopted a qualitative design, combining online comments and in-depth interviews, to obtain a comprehensive understanding. The analy…
How different are community support for ethnic tourism? The views of multiple ethnic groups in Vietnam’s Central Highlands
Purpose The paper aims to explore (1) the ways in which community support for ethnic tourism is influenced by different community-related factors and (2) how community support for ethnic tourism varies among four ethnic communities. Design/methodology/approach By adopting a qualitative approach, 31 semi-structured interviews are conducted with ethnic villagers in four study sites of the Central Highlands, Vietnam. The content analysis and cross-c…
Generation Z's Perspectives on environmental responsibility in tourism and hospitality careers
Omicron variant and pulmonary involvements
Objectives To identify clinical characteristics and risk factors for pulmonary involvements in asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant by chest imaging analysis. Methods Detailed data and chest computed tomography (CT) imaging features were retrospectively analyzed from asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic patients infected with Omicron between 24 April and 10 May 2022. We scored chest CT imaging featu…
Seeing coffee tourism through the lens of coffee consumption
One of the world’s most popular beverages, coffee is used to satisfy a wide range of consumptions, including tourism. In this article, we examined the existing concepts of coffee consumption and identified additional consumption domains that may contribute to the growing body of knowledge regarding coffee tourism. The paper used a scoping review approach and Critical Media Discourse Analysis (CMDA). The scoping review examined 152 articles on cof…
Let’s listen
Host-tourist interaction is a core attraction of ethnic tourism. Yet both parties may confront challenges in such interactions because of different cultural backgrounds. This study aims to investigate hosttourist interaction issues in Vietnam's Central Highlands by adopting a qualitative approach wherein 31 semi-structured interviews were conducted with villagers. Results find that villagers interacted with domestic tourists mostly in private hou…
Travel vlogging practice and its impacts on tourist experiences
Travel vlogging is gaining popularity and studying the practice of travel vlogging can provide insights into tourist behaviour, communication, and management. The notion of practice was adopted as the theoretical base and the analytical framework. A qualitative approach was employed, including interviews with 12 strategically sampled vlogger tourists and analysis of their vlog productions. The findings suggested that travel vlogging is a practice…
Tourist scams
Tourist scams have long been a challenge for tourist security and destination management. Understanding the tourist decision-making process can improve scam prevention. Through a quasi-experiment, 609 participants made, and documented reasons for, decisions after viewing animated scam videos. Thematic analysis was conducted to explore the external (operational) cues and internal (respondent-related) references, and revealed two categories of cues…
Reaching audiences through travel vlogs
Deconstructing tourist scams
Citizens' Representations of China's Golden Weeks
For over a decade Chinese tourism policy has constrained the holiday periods for its citizens to a limited number of well-defined Golden Weeks. This study explores the representations of 450 Chinese residents from five popular tourist regions in these holiday periods. The study is embedded in the framework of social representations theory underpinned by an emic approach to this topical issue. More specifically, the researchers employed an open-en…
Reaching audiences through travel vlogs
Deconstructing tourist scams
Let’s listen
Host-tourist interaction is a core attraction of ethnic tourism. Yet both parties may confront challenges in such interactions because of different cultural backgrounds. This study aims to investigate hosttourist interaction issues in Vietnam's Central Highlands by adopting a qualitative approach wherein 31 semi-structured interviews were conducted with villagers. Results find that villagers interacted with domestic tourists mostly in private hou…
Generation Z's Perspectives on environmental responsibility in tourism and hospitality careers
Tourist scams
Tourist scams have long been a challenge for tourist security and destination management. Understanding the tourist decision-making process can improve scam prevention. Through a quasi-experiment, 609 participants made, and documented reasons for, decisions after viewing animated scam videos. Thematic analysis was conducted to explore the external (operational) cues and internal (respondent-related) references, and revealed two categories of cues…
Citizens' Representations of China's Golden Weeks
For over a decade Chinese tourism policy has constrained the holiday periods for its citizens to a limited number of well-defined Golden Weeks. This study explores the representations of 450 Chinese residents from five popular tourist regions in these holiday periods. The study is embedded in the framework of social representations theory underpinned by an emic approach to this topical issue. More specifically, the researchers employed an open-en…
Citizens' Representations of China's Golden Weeks
For over a decade Chinese tourism policy has constrained the holiday periods for its citizens to a limited number of well-defined Golden Weeks. This study explores the representations of 450 Chinese residents from five popular tourist regions in these holiday periods. The study is embedded in the framework of social representations theory underpinned by an emic approach to this topical issue. More specifically, the researchers employed an open-en…
Reaching audiences through travel vlogs
Deconstructing tourist scams
Travel vlogging practice and its impacts on tourist experiences
Travel vlogging is gaining popularity and studying the practice of travel vlogging can provide insights into tourist behaviour, communication, and management. The notion of practice was adopted as the theoretical base and the analytical framework. A qualitative approach was employed, including interviews with 12 strategically sampled vlogger tourists and analysis of their vlog productions. The findings suggested that travel vlogging is a practice…
Tourist scams
Tourist scams have long been a challenge for tourist security and destination management. Understanding the tourist decision-making process can improve scam prevention. Through a quasi-experiment, 609 participants made, and documented reasons for, decisions after viewing animated scam videos. Thematic analysis was conducted to explore the external (operational) cues and internal (respondent-related) references, and revealed two categories of cues…
Seeing coffee tourism through the lens of coffee consumption
One of the world’s most popular beverages, coffee is used to satisfy a wide range of consumptions, including tourism. In this article, we examined the existing concepts of coffee consumption and identified additional consumption domains that may contribute to the growing body of knowledge regarding coffee tourism. The paper used a scoping review approach and Critical Media Discourse Analysis (CMDA). The scoping review examined 152 articles on cof…
Let’s listen
Host-tourist interaction is a core attraction of ethnic tourism. Yet both parties may confront challenges in such interactions because of different cultural backgrounds. This study aims to investigate hosttourist interaction issues in Vietnam's Central Highlands by adopting a qualitative approach wherein 31 semi-structured interviews were conducted with villagers. Results find that villagers interacted with domestic tourists mostly in private hou…
Omicron variant and pulmonary involvements
Objectives To identify clinical characteristics and risk factors for pulmonary involvements in asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic patients infected with SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant by chest imaging analysis. Methods Detailed data and chest computed tomography (CT) imaging features were retrospectively analyzed from asymptomatic and mildly symptomatic patients infected with Omicron between 24 April and 10 May 2022. We scored chest CT imaging featu…
How different are community support for ethnic tourism? The views of multiple ethnic groups in Vietnam’s Central Highlands
Purpose The paper aims to explore (1) the ways in which community support for ethnic tourism is influenced by different community-related factors and (2) how community support for ethnic tourism varies among four ethnic communities. Design/methodology/approach By adopting a qualitative approach, 31 semi-structured interviews are conducted with ethnic villagers in four study sites of the Central Highlands, Vietnam. The content analysis and cross-c…
Generation Z's Perspectives on environmental responsibility in tourism and hospitality careers
Unpacking tourism blind boxes
Tourism blind boxes represent tourism products – typically hotel, airline, and package tours – that are purchased without knowing their exact nature or details. Despite its continuous expansion in size and scope worldwide, little is understood about the overall experiences of consuming tourism blind boxes. This study adopted a qualitative design, combining online comments and in-depth interviews, to obtain a comprehensive understanding. The analy…
Tourism (10 works) · Business (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Advertising (5 works) · Computer Science (5 works) · Marketing (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Psychology (5 works) · Digital Marketing and Social Media (4 works) · Geography (4 works)