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COVID-19 the intruder: A brief philosophical reflection on strangeness and hospitality

Ana Maria Munar, Adam Doering

Hospitality Insights ( Auckland University of Technology ({AUT}) Library ) 4 ( 2 ) 5 - 6 2020.12 [Refereed]

Mobilizing stoke: A genealogy of surf tourism development in Miyazaki, Japan

Doering, A. （Part： Lead author )

In R. Sharpley & K. Kato Tourism Development in Japan: Themes, Issues and Challenges ( ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD ) 15 ( 1 ) 102 - 118 2020 [Refereed] [Invited]

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. This article presents a genealogy of domestic surf tourism development in contemporary Japan. Drawing on two months’ ethnographic fieldwork conducted between July and August 2016, and participant observation during three years working, living and surfing in the area, I trace the historical production of one of Japan’s most prominent surf tourism destinations, Miyazaki Prefecture. Detailing the convergence of surfing culture and tourism development from 1930 to 2016, I examine how surf tourism came to be mobilised in Miyazaki as a tool for revitalising the local economy. The article then addresses three important transformations of the Japanese seascape surf tourism development invites: the feminisation of surf capital, global cultural gentrification and the reinforcement of urban–rural disparities. The article concludes with a reflection on how surf tourism development may (dis)connect local surfing communities and identify areas for future research concerning surf destination development leading up to the Tokyo 2020 Olympics.

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Performative nationalism in Japan’s inbound tourism television programmes: YOU, Sekai! (The World), and the tourism nation

Adam Doering, Tsz Hei (Terrance) Kong （Part： Lead author )

In Hideki Endo (Ed.) Understanding Tourism Mobilities in Japan 138 - 157 2020 [Refereed]

This chapter examines how inbound tourism offers a familiar yet new context for understanding the complexities and contradictions of national identity and nationalism in the context of Japan’s tourism nation-building efforts. Over the past decade international inbound tourism has garnered unprecedented attention by the Japanese national government and is now recognised as a major pillar of the economic growth strategy and a critical industry for facilitating rural and regional revitalization. For much of the twentieth century tourism was not a national priority for the Japanese government. The launch of the Visit Japan Campaign in 2003 marked the beginning of a national branding strategy to encourage inbound tourism, initially aiming to attract 10 million international tourists annually by 2010. A close reading of Japan’s governmental policy between 2003 and 2016 reveals that inbound tourism is as much about national cultural revitalisation as it is economic.

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Lifestyle Sports in East Asia

Clifton Evers, Adam Doering

Journal of Sport and Social Issues ( SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC ) 43 ( 5 ) 343 - 352 2019.10 [Refereed]

© The Author(s) 2019. “Lifestyle sports” are not the preserve of occidental cultures, even though late capitalist Western nations dominate them commercially and ideologically. Examples of these sports are snowboarding, BASE jumping, freestyle BMX, mountain biking, bouldering, skateboarding, kiteboarding, rock climbing, parkour/free running, windsurfing, and surfing. Non-occidental cultures—such as those in Asia, Latin America, and Africa—also influence lifestyle sport institutions, commodities, values, and practices. Arguably, this influence is expanding and is accelerating as the populations of non-occidental cultures champion their interests and perspectives. This article makes a modest proposal for the starting of a targeted discourse among those interested in the cultural politics of lifestyle sports in the region of East Asia, an area with its own unique international and intra-regional interactions and concomitant needs, desires, and perspectives. In specific regard to this region, we argue it is worth asking: What are the stories being narrated and what forms do they take? How are complex social, political, cultural, and economic relations of this region being negotiated through lifestyle sports?

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Exploring the introduction and usage of the English term DMO in major Japanese newspapers

NAGAI Hayato, MAKINO Emi, KASHIWAGI Sho, DOERING Adam, YASHIMA Yuji

JAFIT international tourism review ( Japan Foundation For International Tourism ) 26 ( 0 ) 41 - 50 2019 [Refereed]

Destination management (or marketing) organizations (DMOs) have a long history, especially in the West. In Japan, however, anecdotal observation suggests that the term DMO was not part of the vocabulary of tourism practitioners or policy makers until the Japanese government adopted the concept in 2015 as a cornerstone of its new tourism policy. Since supporting evidence for this claim is limited, we quantify how the term DMO has proliferated in Japan through a content analysis of major Japanese newspapers, a common approach for studying the diffusion of novel concepts. Empirical results confirmed that the term began commonly appearing in newspaper articles in 2015. Coverage of Japanese DMOs has steadily increased since then, with the term DMO appearing prominently in the headlines quite frequently. The study demonstrates how a Western concept in tourism gains currency in contemporary Japan via the popular press. Future research agendas for this recent phenomena are also discussed.

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The emergence of the DMO concept in Japan: Confusion, contestation and acceptance

Hayato Nagai, Adam Doering, Yuji Yashima

Journal of Destination Marketing and Management ( ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV ) 9 377 - 380 2018.09 [Refereed]

© 2018 Elsevier Ltd Destination marketing and/or management organizations (DMOs) have been acknowledged as an essential component of the tourism system. However, the ability of DMOs to manage and coordinate destination development in contemporary society is now being questioned by scholars. The focus of this regional spotlight is Japan, a country that has recently turned to tourism as the tool to facilitate economic growth. The paper examines the early emergence of the registered DMO program introduced by the Japanese government in 2015, with a particular focus on how the concept of DMO is being adopted and understood by tourism practitioners at local tourism destinations across the country. Offering insights into the ways the concept of DMO is understood, experienced and employed in Japan, a non-Western context, the paper contributes to the international debate concerning the future role of DMOs globally.

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From he’e nalu to Olympic sport: A century of surfing evolution (case study)

Adam Doering （Part： Lead author )

Sport Tourism Development (3rd edition) (J. Higham, & T. Hinch Eds.) 200 - 203 2018 [Invited]

DMO organisations and local communities:Exploring the relationship from an income structure perspective

YASHIMA Yuji, NAGAI Hayato, DOERING Adam

JAFIT international tourism review ( Japan Foundation For International Tourism ) 25 ( 0 ) 141 - 147 2018 [Refereed]

In 2015, the Japanese government launched a programme that aims to enhance the performance of destination organisations. Within the programme, the concept of destination marketing and/or management organisations (DMOs), which has been developed mainly in the Western countries, was introduced. Destination organisations can apply to be registered as DMO candidate organisations. Candidate organisations, which are categorised as municipal, inter-municipal, or inter-prefectural levels, disclose their income performance when they apply to the programme. This study provides an example of how DMOs manage local communities. Using income data from municipal and inter-municipal DMO candidate organisations in Kyushu, we discuss the optimal income ratio, the role of partnership platforms/initiatives, and the contribution to sustainable management through commercial income. In addition, the Tamana DMO in Kumamoto Prefecture is used to explore how DMOs can enhance engagement with local communities. We conclude with a discussion of the meaning of ‘M' within DMOs and their functions.

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Sport, tourism and identity: Japan, rugby union and the transcultural maul

T. D. Hinch, J. E.S. Higham, A. Doering

Sport and Contested Identities: Contemporary Issues and Debates 191 - 206 2017.09 [Refereed]

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Beyond the biosphere: tourism, outer space, and sustainability

Samuel Spector, James E.S. Higham, Adam Doering

Tourism Recreation Research ( ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD ) 42 ( 3 ) 273 - 283 2017.07 [Refereed]

© 2017 Informa UK Limited, trading as Taylor & Francis Group. Dominant sustainability discourses commonly situate Earth as the singular realm of human influence and position modern mobility as one of the primary means through which we are destroying the biosphere. The commercialisation of activities in outer space and the development of space tourism have resulted in drastically reduced launch costs, enabling an increased human presence beyond the biosphere. This paper argues that current debates concerning the relationship between tourism mobilities and sustainability are marked by increasingly untenable assumptions concerning the spatial and temporal parameters of human influence. We critique those assumptions by introducing the concept of a sustainable trajectory to examine the relationship between modern mobility and sustainability, a relationship that is being redefined by the rapidly advancing fields of commercial spaceflight and space tourism. Greater attention to space tourism and commercial spaceflights is required in order to develop a coherent, long-term conceptualisation of the implications of modern mobility for sustainability.

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Exploring stability and change in transport systems: combining Delphi and system dynamics approaches

David Rees, Janet Stephenson, Debbie Hopkins, Adam Doering

Transportation ( SPRINGER ) 44 ( 4 ) 789 - 805 2017.07 [Refereed]

© 2016, Springer Science+Business Media New York. Transport is a vast and complex socio-technical system, and despite a clear need to reduce dependence on fossil fuels due to undesirable environmental impacts, it is largely locked into business-as-usual. Systems approaches are a useful way to help make sense of multiple competing influences which may be simultaneously driving change and supporting the status quo. This paper applies qualitative system dynamics modelling to help interpret the results of a Delphi study into global transport transitions, involving 22 international experts in various aspects of transport. The main contribution of the paper is its exploration of the use of system dynamics (SD) modelling to interpret the Delphi findings. SD modelling was used to reveal and elucidate the causal arguments put forward by the expert panel about the factors driving business-as-usual, the factors creating barriers to more sustainable transport systems, and the drivers of change. The SD model is used to explore and expose the key causal patterns at play, and how these interact to both support and hinder change. The resulting model shows the complex, interdependent dynamics involved in supporting the status quo. Even at the relatively high level of analysis reported here, the model is useful in revealing interdependencies between parts of the system, where change in one part may well have knock-on effects elsewhere in the system. In particular the model reveals the strong reinforcing loops that act to minimise the impact of change drivers and thus retain the dominance of automobility. The result is a system that is highly dependent on the continued existence of key reinforcements such as policies that subsidise fossil fuels. From a methodological perspective, the outcomes of the Delphi study provided a rich source of qualitative material which was highly suitable for developing a system dynamics model.

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Mobilities for tourism studies and "beyond": A polemic

Adam Doering, Tara Duncan

Tourism Analysis ( COGNIZANT COMMUNICATION CORP ) 21 ( 1 ) 47 - 59 2016 [Refereed]

© 2016 Cognizant, LLC. This article offers a polemic directed against the largely unchallenged incorporation of mobilities within tourism studies. The mobilities paradigm may offer many constructive insights for the field of tourism; however, this article argues that the concept has been received rather uncritically by tourism scholarship and needs further critical appraisal. As a polemic, the article is designed to invite reaction as well as offer a counterpoint for those who may also feel uncomfortable with the seemingly "natural" progression from tourism studies to tourism mobilities. The aim of the article is twofold: first to open up a more nuanced debate of the philosophical stakes of mobilities for tourism studies, and second to renew the question and explore different possibilities of what constitutes a mobile philosophy today. By critically examining the paradox underpinning mobilities' ambition to "stabilize a world on the move" and closely interrogating the literature suggesting the paradigm shift signals "the end of tourism," the article explores how a nuanced rereading of the philosophical stakes of mobilities ultimately signals a return to tourism studies rather than moving "beyond" it. The article concludes by opening up a creative, destabilizing, and pluralizing mobile philosophy for tourism and mobility scholarship to consider.

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Freedom and Belonging "Up in the Air": Reconsidering the Travel Ideal with Jean-Luc Nancy

Adam Doering （Part： Lead author,　Corresponding author )

Motion Pictures Travel Ideals in Film (G. Blackwood & A. McGregor Eds.) 109 - 134 2016 [Refereed]

Book review. Tourism Imaginaries: Anthropological Approaches

Adam Doering

Annals of Tourism Research ( PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD ) 54 222 - 223 2015.09 [Refereed]

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Conceptualizing transport transitions: Energy Cultures as an organizing framework

Janet Stephenson, Debbie Hopkins, Adam Doering

Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment ( WILEY PERIODICALS, INC ) 4 ( 4 ) 354 - 364 2015.07 [Refereed]

© 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. The dominance of fossil fuel-powered transport systems presents a serious risk to human well-being and the natural environment. Transitioning to a low-carbon transport system requires changes to many dimensions of transport, including: technologies, and mobility practices and expectations. It also requires changes across multiple scales of activity. Conceptual models play an essential role in transitions within complex systems such as transport, as they can help identify key interactions and opportunities for change. A variety of theoretical models offer useful perspectives on transport transitions from different disciplinary positions. In this paper, we introduce the Energy Cultures framework, which was developed to support interdisciplinary understandings of energy behavior and energy-related transitions. It offers an integrating framework for transport behavior and a group of concepts to assist with analysis. We explore the potential of the framework in the transportation context by using the findings from a series of in-depth interviews with international transport experts. Applied to the interview material, the framework provides a structure which works at different scales to highlight key influences that lock-in the prevailing transport culture, as well as key drivers that are producing new emerging transport cultures. The framework complements other models and approaches, and offers a gateway to deeper exploration of the elements of interest via these complementary theories and models. We conclude that the Energy Cultures framework has the qualities of a successful integrating model for conceptualizing energy transitions in transport.

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The energy cultures framework: Exploring the role of norms, practices and material culture in shaping energy behaviour in New Zealand

Janet Stephenson, Barry Barton, Gerry Carrington, Adam Doering, Rebecca Ford, Debbie Hopkins, Rob Lawson, Alaric McCarthy, David Rees, Michelle Scott, Paul Thorsnes, Sara Walton, John Williams, Ben Wooliscroft

Energy Research and Social Science ( ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV ) 7 117 - 123 2015.05 [Refereed]

© 2015 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. The energy cultures framework was developed in 2009 to support interdisciplinary investigation into energy behaviour in New Zealand. In this paper, we discuss the framework in light of 5 years of empirical application and conceptual development. The concept of culture is helpful in seeking to better understand energy behaviour because it conveys how behaviours are embedded within the physical and social contexts of everyday life, and how they are both repetitive and heterogeneous. The framework suggests that the energy culture of a given subject (e.g. an individual, a household, a business, a sector) can be studied by examining the interrelationships between their norms, practices and material culture, and how these, in turn, are shaped by external influences. We discuss the key theoretical influences of the framework, and how the core concepts of the framework have evolved as we have applied them in different research situations. We then illustrate how we have applied the framework to a range of topics and sectors, and how it has been used to support interdisciplinary research, in identifying clusters of energy cultures, in examining energy cultures at different scales and in different sectors, and to inform policy development.

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Book Review: Tourism and Mobilities: Local-Global Connections (Peter M. Burns and Marina Novelli, Eds.).

Adam Doering （Part： Lead author )

Tourism Analysis 15 ( 2 ) 283 - 285 2010 [Refereed]

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