✦✦UPCOMING✦✦ 29 MAY 2026 (FRI) 15:00-15:15

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HKU GEOGRAPHY: Monthly Research Talks

Tourist Resilience in China's Greater Bay Area

Date: 29 MAY 2026 (Friday)

Time: 15:00-15:15 (HKT)

Via Zoom: https://hku.zoom.us/j/98300713382?pwd=dGdqelhpWUwyOENmTUJyalVKemtHQT09

(No registration required)

Abstract:

Based on a funded GRF project, this presentation explains what is involved in developing and validating a theory of tourist resilience in China's Greater Bay Area. Resilience is the ability to remain functional while enduring shocks, the skill to adapt, or to redevelop after disruption. It has long been important to the tourism industry, but interest has grown in recent years, particularly since the COVID-19 pandemic. Key to maintaining a thriving tourism industry are resilient tourists who can withstand shocks caused by extreme weather events, climate change, disease outbreaks, economic disruptions, and other forces of disturbance. This presentation examines the types of practices and qualities tourists possess to enable them to be resilient, and it describes how a theory of tourist resilience is to be developed and validated.