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New Strategy Network of China-ASEAN Tourism Cooperation: Change and Response of South Korea’s Tourism Industry After COVID-19

  • Asia Review
  • Abbr : SNUACAR
  • 2022, 12(3), pp.237~283
  • Publisher : 아시아연구소
  • Research Area : Social Science > Social Science in general
  • Received : September 26, 2022
  • Accepted : November 30, 2022
  • Published : December 31, 2022

Hye-Young Jung 1

1건국대학교 KU중국연구원

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ABSTRACT

COVID-19, which occurred at the time of the new strategic tourism network cooperation between China and ASEAN, caused a complete break in the tourism network between the countries. While each ASEAN country is nervous about the U.S.-China strategic confrontation and the strengthening of the political alliance network, they are considering restoring the network disconnected between individual countries to restore the tourism economy. Tourism exchanges between ASEAN countries and China have shown a movement to seek mutual exchange amid the uncertainty of the US-China conflict, the development of digital technology in the tourism industry, and the spread of infectious diseases. This is due to the rise of China in Southeast Asia and geopolitical economic factors that have expanded the scale of people-to-people exchanges and tourism industry exchanges. The tourism industry in Southeast Asia has already driven the development of the tourism economy by one leap from Chinese visits, and the industrial power obtained from this has created a new and broader tourism cooperation network. The recovery of the tourism industry, which has been hit hard by COVID-19, and the reconstruction of the network will be accompanied by a multi-layered network in a new area beyond the meaning of the simple restoration of the tourism cooperation network. This study focuses on the disconnecting and restoring of tourism networks between ASEAN and China and analyzes the factors influencing the restoration of tourism networks and the cooperation of the tourism economy between China and ASEAN. In detail, a study was conducted on the political network, economic network, technical network, and medical and health cooperation from the changing tourism industry in the ASEAN region. To strengthen the competitiveness of the South Korean tourism industry, implications for the innovation task were obtained for the tourism industry.

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This paper was written with support from the National Research Foundation of Korea.