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Tourism Geography, Tourism Planning, Tourist Destination Management, Heritagte Tourism, Dark Tourism, Behaviour Geography
China

Biography

Tang Yong, is a professor of tourism geography at the College of Geography and Planning, the Chengdu University of Technology (CDUT). Much of his work focuses on behavioral geography, heritage and cultural tourism, and tourist destination planning and marketing, and tourism statistics, especially landscape history, issues of public memory and commemoration following the Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008. He served as director of the Collaborative Education Program between Chengdu University of Technology and Edge Hill University in Tourism Management, involving teaching management, and project development. He was sponsored by the China Scholarship Council (CSC) to visit the Geography Department at the University of Colorado at Boulder and Geography Department at the University of Connecticut at Storrs as a visiting scholar to work with Professor K. E. Foote on the research into "Remembering Natural Hazards: Public Memory of Natural Disasters in Historical Context." His recent research has also focused on "Dark tourism to the seismic memorial sites". Among his publications in this area are Contested Narratives at the Hanwang Earthquake Memorial Park: Where Ghost Industrial Town and Seismic Memorial Meet, co-authored Memorial Landscapes of Earthquakes: Landscape Perceptions and Sense of Place, and co-authored The Great Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008: Dark Tourism, Seismic Memorials, and Disaster Rituals.

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Employment (3)

Chengdu University of Technology: Chengdu, Sichuan, CN

2023-11-24 to present | Professor (College of Geography and Planning)
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Chengdu University of Technology: Chengdu, Sichuan, CN

2020-07-20 to 2023-11-24 | Professor (College of tourism and urban-rural planning)
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Chengdu University of Technology: Chengdu, Sichuan, CN

2012-11-01 to 2020-07-19 | Associate Professor (College of Tourism and Urban-rural Planning)
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Education and qualifications (1)

Chengdu University of Technology: Chengdu, Sichuan, CN

2007-09-01 to 2010-11-01 | Doctor of Science (College of Earthscience)
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Works (11)

Red Tourists and National Identity in the Museum Commemorating Deng Xiaoping

Curator: The Museum Journal
2024-11-22 | Journal article
Contributors: Yong Tang; Suya Tan; Shuang Zhao; Weiyu Cheng
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Risk perceptions of COVID-19, vocational identity, and employment aspirations of Chinese aviation students: a structural equation modeling approach

BMC Public Health
2023-11-06 | Journal article
Part of ISSN: 1471-2458
Contributors: Hongyao Qin; Yong Tang
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Staged authenticity and nostalgia of mining tourists in the Jiayang mining Geo-park of China

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change
2023-03-04 | Journal article
Contributors: Yong Tang; Yue Liang
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Lay People’s View and Responses to the Pandemic: Perceptions of COVID-19 and Personal Health Responses in China

Asia Pacific Journal of Public Health
2021-05 | Journal article
Contributors: Yong Tang; Yanrui Wang; Yue Liang
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Negative word of mouth about foreign lands: Dimensions of the shared discomforts narrated in travel blogs

Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science
2019-07-03 | Journal article
Contributors: Yong Tang; Meiling Zhong; Hongyao Qin; Yuxuan Liu; Lingxiao Xiang
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Contested Narratives at the Hanwang Earthquake Memorial Park: Where Ghost Industrial Town and Seismic Memorial Meet

Geoheritage
2019-06-31 | Journal article
Contributors: Yong Tang
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Dark tourism to seismic memorial sites

The Palgrave Handbook of Dark Tourism Studies
2018 | Book chapter
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2-s2.0-85046115769

Contributors: Tang, Y.
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YONG TANG via Scopus - Elsevier

Potentials of community-based tourism in transformations towards green economies after the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake in West China

Journal of Mountain Science
2016 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84984649239

Part of ISSN: 16726316
Contributors: Tang, Y.
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Dark touristic perception: Motivation, experience and benefits interpreted from the visit to seismic memorial sites in Sichuan province

Journal of Mountain Science
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84919905222

Part of ISSN: 16726316
Contributors: Tang, Y.
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Travel Motivation, Destination Image and Visitor Satisfaction of International Tourists After the 2008 Wenchuan Earthquake: A Structural Modelling Approach

Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research
2014 | Journal article
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2-s2.0-84927175636

Part of ISSN: 17416507 10941665
Contributors: Tang, Y.
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Consuming an Earthquake-prone Tourism Destination: The Case of Sichuan after the Wenchuan Earthquake of 2008

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Contributors: YONG TANG
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Peer review (3 reviews for 1 publication/grant)

Review activity for Geoheritage. (3)