Situating Asian Tourism Ontologies, Epistemologies and Methodologies: From Colonialism to Neo-colonialism

Abstract

Over the years, there has been persistent academic arguments on the Eurocentric nature of the social sciences, and with it, the tourism academia has also been recently bought into the spotlight, highlighting the many ways Eurocentric ideologies subjugate the way tourism knowledge is produced and disseminated globally. In this chapter, I attempt to locate Asian ontologies, epistemologies and methodologies in tourism knowledge production from colonialism (the birthplace of Eurocentrism) to neo-colonialism to bring to attention some persistent ideologies that yet linger in the Asian tourism academia.