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Book SynopsisThis book analyses the ways in which crises, including COVID-19, can be managed within the tourism and hospitality industries in Asia, in ways that support the future of these industries and help to make them more resilient. This book supports efforts to develop a new direction for the tourism and hospitality industry by considering their development holistically in the context of sustainable development. Going further, this book highlights actions to make the tourism system more resilient to external shocks and crises. Readers of this book will get insights into the economic, social, technological, and environmental implications of crises on the tourism and hospitality industry in Asia, including issues within the food and beverage industry in the Asian post-COVID-19 period. This book has three major objectives: to explore the crisis context of Asian tourism and hospitality, to present multiple cases from countries in Asia, and finally to envisage the paths to make the Asian tourism system more resilient, through the discussion of new trends and issues emerging following the pandemic. This book examines the economic, social, environmental, and technological implications of crises on the Asian tourism and hospitality industry and discusses the various ways of managing these crises more efficiently, contributing new knowledge to the industry. In its wider context, this book covers tourism management, crisis management, and destination management. At the more micro level, themes explored include tourism economics, marketing management, hospitality management, food and beverage management and tourism technology.Table of ContentsIntroduction (Azizul Hassan et al)The Crisis ContextChapter 1. Crisis, Resilience and Recovery in Tourism and Hospitality: A Synopsis (Mohammed Ghanim Ahmed et al)Chapter 2. Community Resilience and Crisis Management: Stakeholders Perspective of the Tourism Industry (Bindi Varghese and Joseph Chacko Chennattuserry)Chapter 3. Corporate Social Responsibility in Tourism Post COVID-19 Pandemic: A Paradigm Shift (Samik Ray)Chapter 4. Effects of COVID-19 on Consumer Behavior in the Tourism Industry (K. N. Lokesh Kumar and G. K. Jaya Bharath Reddy)Chapter 5. Pandemic Crisis and Prospects of Tourism along the BCIM Economic Corridor (Saleh Shahriar)Chapter 6. Impact of COVID-19 Pandemic on the Tourism and Hospitality Industry of Pakistan: An Insight from Techno and Social-Economics Crisis Perspective (Muhammad Saeed Meo et al)Chapter 7. Indian Medical Tourism: Post COVID-19 Planning and Reviving Approaches (Hafizullah Dar and Kirti Kashyap)Chapter 8. Disrupted Diners: Impacts of COVID-19 on Restaurant Service Systems and Technological Adaptations (Priyakrushna Mohanty et al)Chapter 9. Impact of COVID-19 Outbreak on Smallholder Producers of Farming Products Supply to Tourism Business in Sri Lanka (Musthapha Mufeeth and Kaldeen Mubarak)Resilience and Recovery in the Post COVID-19 PeriodChapter 10. Pandemic, Tourism and Economic Crisis: An Analysis of Performance of the Bangladesh Parjatan Corporation (Shuvra Chowdhury et al)Chapter 11. Does Tourism and Hospitality Workplace Fun Influence Employee Deep Acting in a Moderated Situation? (Md. Aftab Uddin et al)Chapter 12. COVID-19 Effects, Challenges and Recovery of Rural Tourism in Iran (Mana Khoshkam and Roya Rahimi)Chapter 13. Role of Tourist Guides in Destination Recovery Process through Cultural Tourism Product Development in Post COVID-19 Period (Gül Erkol Bayram et al)Chapter 14. How to Make Place Branding Content Viral in Pre and Post-Pandemic Situations through Instagram? (Gourav Roy and Varsha Jain)Chapter 15. Influence of Ethnic Foods on Culture and Post COVID-19 (Nishi Priya et al)Chapter 16. Effects of COVID-19 and Recovery Process in the Turkish Tourism Industry (Elham Anasori and Kemal Gürkan Küçükergin)Chapter 17. The Impact of COVID-19 on Malaysia’s Hospitality and Tourism Industry: Any Recovery Measures for Transformation? (Velan Kunjuraman and Nitanan Koshy Matthew)Chapter 18. Short and Long Term Recovery of Tourism as a Way out of COVID-19 Crisis: The Case of Turkey (Selcen Seda Türksoy)Chapter 19. Digital Acceptance and Resilience in Rural Tourism Destination: A Case of Bali (I Gede Gian Saputra and Putu Diah Sastri Pitanatri)The Future AheadChapter 20. The Future of Post-Pandemic Tourism and Hospitality Industry: A Comprehensive Assessment (Hande Uyar Oğuz)Chapter 21. Rerouting Tourism and Hospitality in Crisis: A Systematic Literature Review and Future Research Directions (Rokibul Hossain et al)Conclusion (Azizul Hassan et al)

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Book SynopsisForced labour, encompassing various types of coercive practices and rights violations, is an entrenched problem in Malaysia. Recent years have seen more decisive and concerted efforts to resolve the problem and repair Malaysia's damaged reputation, but the country's forced labour woes escalated amid COVID-19, with exposés and trade embargoes in 2020–21.Most consequentially, the US has imposed withhold release orders (WROs) on major rubber glove manufacturers and palm oil producers. For two consecutive years, 2021–22, Malaysia has occupied the lowest Tier 3 in the US Trafficking in Persons report. In November 2021, the country's National Action Plan on Forced Labour (NAPFL), formulated through tripartite engagements with the participation of the International Labour Organization, was launched, with the third National Action Plan on Trafficking in Persons (NAPTIP 3.0) operating in tandem.The NAPFL outlines strategies and integrated measures for eventually eliminating forced labour by 2030, which requires systemic solutions commensurate with the magnitude of underlying problems. Forced labour has persisted despite the official termination of labour outsourcing and increased intergovernmental bilateral initiatives to better manage foreign worker flows. Continual challenges in the labour supply industry and the administrative system, including the problematic overlapping powers of the Ministry of Home Affairs and Ministry of Human Resources, complicate the creation and implementation of a more just, effective and accountable migrant worker system.Government-to-government (G2) agreements, through Memorandum of Understanding, have become the established platform, but are marred by inconsistency and lack of transparency. The new government of Malaysia will need to address deep-seated issues and confront vested interests, domestically and in the labour source countries, to realize the aspiration of eliminating forced labour by 2030.

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Book SynopsisFounded in 1906, the Singapore Chinese Chamber of Commerce and Industry is a leading cultural and economic organization dedicated to promoting the interests of the Chinese business community. The first extended history of the Chamber, Sikko Visscher's ""The Business of Politics and Ethnicity"" describes its changing relationship with the state and with businesses in the region. Some of the wealthiest and most influential businessmen in Singapore and Malaysia have served as leaders of the Chamber. Drawing on archival materials and extensive interviews, Visscher provides lively biographical sketches to illustrate the circumstances and personal values that propelled these and other leading Chinese businessmen to success and to prominence. He also examines Chinese business practices, considering cultural elements as well as state and market forces, and highlights unique features of the Chinese experience in Singapore. By viewing Singapore from the perspective of a well established non-governmental organization as it struggled, negotiated, and cooperated with the state, this book offers an alternative to conventional political histories.

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Book SynopsisThis volume of collected essays by Somboon Siriprachai offers a critical assessment of Thai industrialisation with a focus on industrial policy, rent seeking and income inequality. An economist by training, Somboon saw the Thai state as authoritarian rather than developmental, and criticised the adoption of policies that were oriented toward increasing government revenue instead of nurturing industrial development. While these policies achieved growth, they did not strengthen Thailand's technological ability and industrial skills, or promote research and development. Somboon disputed the World Bank's classification of Thailand as a Newly Industrialising Economy (NIE), backing his argument with empirical evidence and comparisons with Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. The success of these East Asian countries, he suggested, rested on the competence of the state to direct the accumulation process rather than reliance on any particular strategy for industrialisation. Arguing that growth of industrial productivity is the key to a country's living standard and its ability to compete in the world market, he argued that government intervention was essential to successful late-comer industrialisation. Combining institutional economics with a historical perspective, Somboon's work provides a unique analysis of the transition of the Thai economy from around the mid-nineteenth century until 2000. His essays are a unique and valuable contribution not only to Thai studies but also to the study of economic development of late-comer countries and the role of the state in that process.

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Book SynopsisMalaysia’s rubber manufacturing sector is a prime example of an industry based on a locally produced agricultural resource. In Rubber Manufacturing in Malaysia, C.C. Goldthorpe draws on industrial policy theory along with many years of practical experience to examine the growth of rubber manufacturing in Malaysia. Over the past century, a series of technological discoveries resulted in the worldwide rise of a rubber production industry that manufactures tyres for motor vehicles, engineering components, household gloves and medical products. Goldthorpe argues that the production of rubber goods has played a significant part in the transformation of the country from primary commodity producer to newly industrialized economy, a position he supports by tracing the historical development of rubber-based industrial production and the effects of government policies promoting industrialization.Taken as a whole, the rubber industry is vertically integrated, with locally produced natural and synthetic rubbers used by the rubber manufacturing sector to produce latex products and general rubber goods for export markets.

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Book SynopsisLeadership is an integral part of what doctors do.All physicians lead, not just those with official leadership titles, such as CMO or Chief of Surgery. If leadership can be defined as influencing thought and behavior to achieve desired results, then clearly it isn't something physicians work toward only as a later-career goal. Leadership is a skillset physicians practice every day. Whether persuading a patient to stop smoking, a lab to return speedy results, or a surgical team to understand what needs to happen in the OR, physicians lead. Leadership is baked into the job.In fact, we already look to physicians as leaders. We expect them to make critical healthcare decisions, inspire treatment teams, influence patients' behaviors, communicate impeccably, and be exemplars of professional conduct. Few roles in society carry more built-in leadership expectations then that of physician.And yet, most physicians receive little focused training in leadership. While clini

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