Table Of ContentTHE HOSPITALITY AND
TOURISM INDUSTRY
IN CHINA
New Growth, Trends, and Developments
Advances in Hospitality and Tourism
THE HOSPITALITY AND
TOURISM INDUSTRY
IN CHINA
New Growth, Trends, and Developments
Edited by
Jinlin Zhao, PhD
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CONTENTS
About the Editor .............................................................................................vii
Advances in Hospitality and Tourism Book Series ..........................................ix
About the Series Editor ...................................................................................xi
List of Contributors .......................................................................................xiii
List of Abbreviations ......................................................................................xv
Acknowledgments .........................................................................................xvii
Preface ..........................................................................................................xix
1. Budget Hotels in China: Recent Development, Changes,
and Challenges ................................................................................................1
Lianping Ren
2. Co-Creating Value with Chinese Hotel Owners:
Based on a Governance Mechanism Theory .............................................15
Bo Qu
3. Development of International Brand Hotels on Hainan Island ...............35
Xiangxiang Xie
4. The Expansions of Chinese Companies in the Foreign Hospitality
Industry .........................................................................................................69
Kun Yang and Jinlin Zhao
5. Chinese Hotel Mergers and Acquisitions (M&As) ....................................95
Nan Hua and Huiming Gu
6. New Developments of the Chinese Restaurant Industry ........................109
Jinlin Zhao and Mohan Song
7. E-Tourism Evolutionary Effect: Studying E-Tourism in China ............131
Beiqi Shi
8. The Development and Change of the Cruise Industry in China
Over the Decade (2006–2016) ....................................................................151
Xinliang Ye
9. Profile and Trend of the Exhibition Industry in China ..........................175
Qiuju Luo
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10. Tourism Higher Education in China: Profile and Issues ........................241
Zhangxin Yin and Fang Meng
11. Leisure Agriculture and Rural Tourism Development in China
(2006–2016) .................................................................................................263
Hong Xu, Conglin Zhao, and Xinying Ma
12. A Review of Studies on China Tourism Destination
Competitiveness During the Past Decade ................................................289
Jingna Wang
Index .............................................................................................................351
ABOUT THE EDITOR
Jinlin Zhao, PhD
Professor, Director of Graduate Program, and Director of Asia and Pacific
Development, Chaplin School of Hospitality and Tourism Management,
Florida International University in Miami, Florida, USA
Jinlin Zhao, PhD, is a Professor, Director of Graduate Program, and Director
of Asia and Pacific Development at the Chaplin School of Hospitality and
Tourism Management at Florida International University in Miami, Florida,
USA. He came to FIU in the fall of 2000 and was tenured in 2005. He started
his teaching career in US in fall of 1992 when he became an assistant profes-
sor and coordinator of special studies in hospitality management at Western
Carolina University (WCU), where he took the initiative in building the hos-
pitality management degree program. The degree program was approved by
the State of North Carolina in 1995. He was granted tenure and promoted
an associate professor in 1999 at WCU. He has been a visiting professor at
several universities, such as Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Macao City
University, and Jinan University. In 2015, he was named “Municipal Inter-
national Scholar” by the Shanghai Education Commission at the Shanghai
Institute of Tourism. He was named a “Fulbright Specialist” by the Fulbright
Foundation, USA, and was invited to teach at Northern University of Den-
mark in 2016.
Dr. Zhao is an active researcher. His area of research lies in competitive
methods, the international environment and impact analysis, and multina-
tional corporate strategy. He co-edited the book Handbook of Hospitality
Strategic Management (London, Elsevier) in 2008. He also co-authored a
book chapter in the same book. In 2010, he co-authored the book Tourism
Destination Management: Principles and Practice (New Delhi, Kanishka
Publishers). He is the author of Instructor’s Manual to Accompany-Strategic
Management in the Hospitality Industry, 3rd edition (Pearson/Prentice Hall
Inc.) in 2008. He has also published many refereed articles in several research
journals and five books/chapters, as well as other publications, and has given
more than 70 presentations at international hospitality conferences. Dr. Zhao
viii About the Editor
has guided and mentored graduate students in research, which has resulted
in many publications in high-ranking academic journals and presentations at
international conferences.
Dr. Zhao’s industry experience includes pro-bono consulting activities
in China, giving hotel management seminars and presentations in China,
working as a foodservice manager during the 1996 Atlanta and 2004 Athens
Olympic Games, and working as Training Manager for the 2008 Beijing
Olympic Catering Project, in which he was in charge of recruiting and train-
ing 7,000 temporary employees. He also worked as a human resource expert
for the 2010 Guangzhou Asian Games. He has worked with the Great Miami
Convention & Visitors Bureau to conduct research.
Dr. Zhao earned his bachelor’s degree in English at the Beijing Second
Foreign Language Institute in 1979 and remained to teach at the institute
until 1987. After he came to the United States in fall of 1987, he completed
his Master degree at Indiana University of Pennsylvania in 1988. He earned
his PhD degree in Hospitality and Tourism Management at Virginia Poly-
technic Institute and State University in 1994.
ADVANCES IN HOSPITALITY AND
TOURISM BOOK SERIES
BY APPLE ACADEMIC PRESS, INC.
Editor-in-Chief:
Mahmood A. Khan, PhD
Professor, Department of Hospitality and Tourism Management,
Pamplin College of Business,
Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University,
Falls Church, Virginia, USA
Email: [email protected]
Books in the Series:
Food Safety: Researching the Hazard in Hazardous Foods
Editors: Barbara Almanza, PhD, RD, and Richard Ghiselli, PhD
Strategic Winery Tourism and Management: Building Competitive
Winery Tourism and Winery Management Strategy
Editor: Kyuho Lee, PhD
Sustainability, Social Responsibility and Innovations in the
Hospitality Industry
Editor: H. G. Parsa, PhD
Consulting Editor: Vivaja “Vi” Narapareddy, PhD
Associate Editors: SooCheong (Shawn) Jang, PhD,
Marival Segarra-Oña, PhD, and Rachel J. C. Chen, PhD, CHE
Managing Sustainability in the Hospitality and Tourism Industry:
Paradigms and Directions for the Future
Editor: Vinnie Jauhari, PhD
Management Science in Hospitality and Tourism: Theory, Practice,
and Applications
Editors: Muzaffer Uysal, PhD, Zvi Schwartz, PhD, and
Ercan Sirakaya-Turk, PhD
