Abstract

What does the advent of an ‘Asian Century’ portend for critical tourism geographies? This commentary argues that two recent developments have made a critical reckoning with the Asian Century more pressing than ever. First, the Asian Century is in danger of being eclipsed by the deteriorating relationship between China and the United States. And second, the COVID-19 pandemic has created unprecedented challenges for tourism throughout the world and threatens to fundamentally upend travel as we’ve known it for the foreseeable future. These two developments suggest a pressing need not just for a decentering of Eurocentric approaches in tourism scholarship - as has long been argued by critical tourism scholars - but for a more thorough unraveling of the politics of knowledge in tourism scholarship.

摘要

“亚洲世纪”的到来对重要的旅游地区意味着什么？这篇评论认为，最近的两项发展使得对亚洲世纪的批判性思考比以往任何时候都更加紧迫。首先，亚洲世纪有被中美关系恶化所黯然失色的危险。其次，COVID-19 大流行给全世界的旅游业带来了前所未有的挑战，并有可能从根本上颠覆我们在可预见的未来所知道的旅行。这两个发展表明，迫切需要不仅在旅游学术中分散以欧洲为中心的方法——正如批判性旅游学者长期以来所争论的那样——而且迫切需要更彻底地揭示旅游学术中的知识政治。