CE QU

Ce Qu, Ph.D., served as an Assistant Professor at Ningbo University, China, from September 2018 to September 2022. She is currently the Principal Investigator of a research project focused on local residents' cultural capital and sustainable livelihoods at agricultural heritage tourism sites. Her research interests include sustainable heritage tourism, critical heritage studies, and tourist experiences. She is skilled in employing ethnography and questionnaires for data collection in tourism research and proficient in process research, grounded theory, discourse analysis, and statistical methods for data analysis.

Expertise: Heritage Tourism, Tourism Sustainability, Critical Heritage Studies, Community’s Heritage Discourse and Tourism Participation, Tourist’s Experience

Contact: quce052989@gmail.com

 Selected Publications

•       Qu, C., Timothy, D. J., Wang, Z., & Su, Y. (2024). Bottom-up heritage conservation, tourists’ demand and homestays as purveyors of cultural authenticity. Tourism Recreation Research, 1–16.

•       Qu, C., Zhang, C., Shen, S., & Olsen, D. H. (2022). Heritage conservation and communities’ sense of deprivation in tourism: the case of the Hani community in Yunnan, China. Tourism Geographies, 25(2–3), 881–898.

•       Qu, C., Timothy, D. J., & Zhang, C. (2019). Does tourism erode or prosper culture? Evidence from the Tibetan ethnic area of Sichuan Province, China. Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change, 17(4), 526–543.