K Tan

Biographic Data

ID67530
NAMEK Tan
GIVEN NAMESK
FAMILY NAMETan
SIGNATURETAN K
AFFILIATIONSMultimedia University
ORCID0000-0001-8858-5493
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS7
TOTAL CITATIONS56
AUTHOR COUNT7
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR2013
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX4

  • Cultivating a productive sense of place

    Open AccessK Tan, Siow-Kian Tan et al.ARTICLEWellbeing Space and Society2025

    A productive sense of place supports heritage city preservation. • Forty-eight concepts were grouped into nine overarching dimensions. • Heritage place experience includes ambience, tangibility, and socialization. • Sense of place involves self-identity, place dependence, place identity, and sense of mission. • A framework was developed by integrating heritage experience, sense of place, and wellbeing. A strong sense of place plays an essential r…

  • A story of food and place

    K Tan, Siow-Hooi TanARTICLEIdentities2024Cited by: 1References: 33

    This study aims to comprehend how the descendants of Chinese immigrants construct their identities in a multicultural Malaysian society by exploring food culture and its interactions with place. It analyses food, place and identity to elucidate how the Malaysian Chinese community, an integral part of the nation, form and reform their identities via mixing and negotiating with other ethnicities and races, spatially and temporally, in searching for…

  • Crafting a place-based souvenir for sustaining cultural heritage

    Open AccessZi Yan Duan, K Tan et al.ARTICLEHeliyon2023

    This study aims to investigate the souvenir-person-place bonding for sustaining cultural heritage. Previous studies acknowledge souvenirs could represent a place; however, how people perceive souvenirs as representative of the place still needs to be studied. This study comprehends the traditional craft by identifying the dimensions of place-based craft souvenirs and exploring the connections between souvenirs, craft, and place. A qualitative app…

  • A creative place‐making framework – Story‐creation for a sustainable development

    Open AccessK Tan, Siow‐Kian Tan et al.ARTICLESustainable Development2023Cited by: 6References: 25

    Sustainable development is the ultimate goal for policy‐makers and place‐makers to develop a place. Nevertheless, although many approaches, such as exogenous, endogenous, neo‐endogenous, creative cities, and creative place‐making, have been studied, realizing a place‐based approach requires further research. This study addresses the gaps in these approaches by exploring how a place might be made from a local's perspective. A grounded theory appro…

  • Sense of place and sustainability of intangible cultural heritage – The case of George Town and Melaka

    Open AccessK Tan, Siow-Hooi Tan et al.ARTICLETourism Management2018Cited by: 20References: 59

  • A taxonomy of creative tourists in creative tourism

    Open AccessK Tan, Siow-Kian Tan et al.ARTICLETourism Management2014Cited by: 10References: 36

  • A Model of ‘Creative Experience’ in Creative Tourism

    Open AccessK Tan, Siow-Kian Tan et al.ARTICLEAnnals of Tourism Research2013Cited by: 19References: 33