RESEARCH
Here is a list of my publications on tourism and place branding. Most of the journal articles and book chapters are available for download at Researchgate and Academia.edu.
Or I will give you the electronic copy if you send in your request. Your comments are always welcomed. Your comments are always welcomed.
Books
Ooi, Can-Seng; de Waegh, Roxane; Trifan, Cristina Alexandra; and Zhang, Yunzi (eds.) 2023.
Islands and Resilience: Experiences from the Pandemic Era. Singapore: Springer Nature. 65-80. DOI:10.1007/978-981-19-9964-2
Ooi, Can-Seng and Hardy, Anne (eds). 2020. Tourism in Tasmania. Hobart: Forty South. Free download.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2002. Cultural Tourism and Tourism Cultures: The Business of Mediating Experiences in Copenhagen and Singapore.
Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press.
Read the review in Tourist Studies
Ooi, Can-Seng; Philpott, Carolyn; Hardy, Anne; Leane, Elizabeth; Marx, Katie; and Nielsen, Hanne. 2025. "How accessible is Antarctic expedition cruise tourism to visitors with specific needs?",
Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism. DOI: /10.1080/15022250.2025.2464630. Free Open Access.
Hardy, A.; Leane, E.; Marx, K.; Philpott, C;; Ooi, C.-S.; Nielsen, H. 2025. "Knowledge building in Antarctic fieldwork practice: challenges and opportunities for managing social science research teams",
In Varnajot, A.; Vereda, M.; and Ioannides, D.(eds.) Polar Tourism and Communities: Experiences, Knowledge Building, Challenges and Opportunities. Wallingford: CABI.
pp. 88-101. DOI: 10.1079/978180062443.0006.
Ooi, Can-Seng; and Shelley, Becky. 2024. "Negotiating entanglements and the emotion market: Tourism and society relations in Tasmania",
Tourism Culture and Communication, Vol. 24, No. 2, 119-132. DOI: 10.3727/109830423X16969739300629. Access.
Mir, Md Azmain Muhtasim; Shelley, Becky; and Ooi, Can-Seng. 2024. "Uses of tourism resources for educational and community development: A systematic literature review and lessons",
Tourism Management Perspectives, ahead-of-print. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2024.101278. Free Open Access.
Long, Fei; Dahles, Heidi; Ong, Chin Ee; Ooi, Can-Seng; and Sin, Harng Luh. 2024. "Chinese outbound tourists and the changing political economies of Cambodia, Malaysia, and Singapore",
Journal of China Tourism Research. ahead-of-print. DOI: 10.1080/19388160.2024.2333909. Free Open Access.
Stoeckl, Natalie; Adams, Vanessa; et al. 2024. "The value of Antarctic and Southern Ocean ecosystem services",
Nature Reviews Earth and Environment, Vol. 5, 153-155. DOI: 10.1038/s43017-024-00523-3. Access.
Mir, Md Azmain Muhtasim; Ooi, Can-Seng; and Shelley, Becky. 2024. "Tourism development, educational attainment, and the achievement of Sustainable Development Goals in the West Coast of Tasmania",
In Boluk, Karla A.; Higgins-Desbioless, Freya; and Akhoundoghli, Mahshad (eds.) The Elgar Companion to Tourism and the Sustainable Development Goals. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. pp. 284-300. DOI: 10.4337/9781802203219.00028.
Muldoon, Meghan; Tzanelli, Rodanthi; Ooi, Can-Seng; Coulter, Myra; and Lapointe, Dominic. 2024. "Entangling with Keith Hollinshead's Work: A Tribute",
Tourism Culture and Communication, Vol. 24, No. 2, 155-158. DOI: 10.3727/109830423X17010324827212. Free Open Access.
Ooi, Can-Seng and Tøttenborg, Alberte. 2024.
"Interventions in the tourism market: Challenges, opportunities and the moral limits of the tourism market". In Isaac, Rami K.; Nawijn, Jeroen; Farkić, Jelena and Klijs, Jeroen (eds).
Tourism Interventions: Making or Breaking Places. London: Routledge. 184-196.
Gerke, Maree; Ooi, Can-Seng; and Dahles, Heidi. 2024. "Regenerative practices and the local turn: food tourism in rural regional context". In Park, Eerang and Kim, Sangkyun(eds.)
Handbook on Food Tourism. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 117- 132.
Gerke, Maree; Adams, Matt; Ooi, Can-Seng;and Dahles, Heidi. 2023. "Entrepreneuring for regenerative tourism: Doing business differently in Tasmania's regional hospitality industry",
Journal of Sustainable Tourism, ahead-of-print. DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2023.2273757. Free Open Access.
Long Fei; Ooi, Can-Seng; Gui, Ting; and Ngah, Abdul Hafaz. 2023. "Restaurant food waste among Chinese consumers in a group context: an extended value-attitude-behaviour (VAB) hierarchy with information publicity",
British Food Journal, ahead-of-print. DOI: 10.1108/BFJ-02-2023-0109. Access.
Steriopoulos, Effie; and Ooi, Can-Seng. 2023. "Transformative service research approaches for visitor experiences in major sporting events",
International Journal of Event and Festival Management, Vol. 14, No. 2, 189-204. DOI: 10.1108/IJEFM-04-2022-0029. Access.
Sou, Gemma; Ooi, Can-Seng; and Zhang, Yunzi. 2023. "Resilience and resistance".
In Ooi, Can-Seng; de Waegh, Roxane; Trifan, Cristina Alexandra; and Zhang, Yunzi (eds.)
Islands and Resilience: Experiences from the Pandemic Era. Singapore: Springer Nature. 53-64. DOI:10.1007/978-981-19-9964-2_4
Movono, Apisalome; Ooi, Can-Seng; Hardy, Anne; Muslin, Marta; and Cole, Stroma. 2023. "Wayfinding Resilience".
In Ooi, Can-Seng; de Waegh, Roxane; Trifan, Cristina Alexandra; and Zhang, Yunzi (eds.)
Islands and Resilience: Experiences from the Pandemic Era. Singapore: Springer Nature. 65-80. DOI:10.1007/978-981-19-9964-2_5
Zhang, Yunzi; Ooi, Can-Seng; Sou, Gemma; Steenbergen, Dirk J.; and Trifan, Cristina Alexandra Trifan. 2023. "Situating Resilience".
In Ooi, Can-Seng; de Waegh, Roxane; Trifan, Cristina Alexandra; and Zhang, Yunzi (eds.)
Islands and Resilience: Experiences from the Pandemic Era. Singapore: Springer Nature. 1-15. DOI:10.1007/978-981-19-9964-2_1
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2023. "The local turn in tourism: Place-based realities, dangers and opportunities". In Higgins-Desbiolles, Freya and Bigby, Bobby Chew (eds.) The Local Turn in Tourism: Empowering Communities.
Bristol: Channel View Publications. 113-127.
Tøttenborg, Alberte; Ooi, Can-Seng and Hardy, Anne. 2023. "Place branding through public management lenses: supplementing the participatory agenda",
Place Branding and Public Diplomacy. Vol. 19, 114-127. DOI: 10.1057/s41254-021-00252-0. Access.
Blackwood, Gemma; Hardy, Anne; Dodd, Bill; Ooi, Can-Seng; and Williams, Kathleen. 2023. "Natural disaster on Instagram: Examining representations of the 2018-2019 Tasmanian fires",
Annals of Tourism Research Empirical Insights, Vol. 4, No. 1, 100082. DOI: 10.1016/j.annale.2022.100082. Free Open Access.
Hardy, Anne; Ma, Yue; Toettenborg, Alberte; Mccaughan, Louisa; Perkins, Rachel; Lindgaard Andersen, Line; and Ooi, Can-Seng. 2023.
"The role of online tourism education and its impact on student wellbeing during a 'COVID-pause'",
Journal of Applied Learning and Teaching. Vol. 6, No. 1. DOI: 10.37074/jalt.2023.6.1.16. Free Open Access.
Ooi, Can-Seng; Ek, Richard; and Larson, Mia. 2023. "Nordic noir and miserable landscape tourism". In Champion, E.; Lee, C.; Stadler, J.; and Peaslee, R.M. (eds.) Screen Tourism and Affective Landscapes: The Real, the Virtual, and the Cinematic.
London: Routledge. 136-157. DOI: 10.4324/9781003327585-9
Osanami Törngren, Sayaka; and Ooi, Can-Seng. 2023. "Representing Sweden: packaging Swedish identity through curators of Sweden",
Identities: Global Studies in Culture and Power. Vol. 30, No. 3, 432-451. DOI: 10.1080/1070289X.2022.2076423. Free Open Access.
Gerke, Maree; Ooi, Can-Seng; and Dahles, Heidi. 2023. "Bourdieu on Tasmania: How theory of practice makes sense of the emergence of regenerative tourism".
In Çakmak, Erdinç; Isaac, Rami K. and Butler, Richard (eds.) Changing Practices of Tourism Stakeholders in COVID-19 Affected Destinations.
Bristol: Channel View Publications. 121-141.
Tøttenborg, Alberte; Ooi, Can-Seng and Hardy, Anne. 2022. "Giving and taking ownership of a destination brand: mechanisms of stakeholder engagement",
Journal of Place Management and Development, Vol. 15, No. 4, 511-532. DOI: 10.1108/JPMD-12-2020-0124. Access.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2022. "Tourist experiences as attention products". In Sharpley, R. (ed.) Routledge Handbook of the Tourist Experience.
London: Routledge. 113-127. DOI: 10.4324/9781003219866-11.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2022. "Sustainable tourism and the moral limits of the market". In Balasingam, Ann Selvaranee and Ma, Yue (eds.) Asian Tourism Sustainability.
Singapore: Springer Nature. 177-197. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-5264-6_10.
Long, Fei; and Ooi, Can-Seng. 2022. "Sustainability and the tourist wall: The case of hindered interaction between Chinese visitors with Malaysian society". In Balasingam, Ann Selvaranee and Ma, Yue (eds.) Asian Tourism Sustainability.
Singapore: Springer Nature. 81-99. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-16-5264-6_5.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2022. "Soft power in tourism". In Jafari, J. and Xiao, H. (eds.) Encyclopedia of Tourism.
Springer Nature. 113-127. DOI:10.1007/978-3-319-01669-6_184-2. Access.
Long Fei; Ooi, Can-Seng; Gui, Ting; and Ngah, Abdul Hafaz. 2022. "Examining young Chinese consumers' engagement in restaurant food waste mitigation from the perspective of cultural values and information publicity",
Appetite, Vol. 175, 106021. DOI: 10.1016/j.appet.2022.106021. Access.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2022. "Book review: Buddhist tourism in Asia", Pacific Affairs, Vol 95, No. 2, 329-331.
Free Open Access.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2021. "Gay tourism: A celebration and appropriation of queer difference". In Vorobjovas-Pinta, O. (ed.) Gay Tourism: New Perspectives. Bristol: Channel View Publications. 15-33.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2021. "How masculinity creeps in: Awkward field encounters of a male researcher". In Porter, A.B.; Schanzel, H.A.; and Cheer, J.M. (eds.)
Masculinities in the Field: Tourism and Transdisciplinary Research. Bristol: Channel View Publications. 85-98.
Ma, Yue; Ooi, Can-Seng and Hardy, Anne. 2021. "Cultural complexity and situated mediation: Chinese visitors at Port Arthur Historic Site",
Journal of China Tourism Research, Vol 17, No. 4, 532-548. DOI: 10.1080/19388160.2021.1971134. Access.
Caprioli, Laura; Larson, Mia; Ek, Richard and Ooi, Can-Seng. 2021. "The inevitability of essentializing culture in destination branding: The cases of fika and hygge",
Journal of Place Management and Development, Vol. 14, No. 3, 346-361. DOI: 10.1108/JPMD-12-2019-0114. Free Open Access.
Winner of the 2022 Literati Outstanding Paper Award
Shelley, Becky; Ooi, Can-Seng; and Denny, Lisa. 2021. "The dialogic negotiation of justice", Journal of Sustainable Tourism, Vol. 29, No. 2-3, 488-502.
DOI: 10.1080/09669582.2020.1727487. Access.
Tarulevicz, Nicole; and Ooi, Can-Seng. 2021. "Food safety and tourism in Singapore: Between microbial Russian roulette and Michelin stars", Tourism Geographies, Vol. 23, No. 4, 810-832. DOI: 10.1080/14616688.2019.1654540.
Access.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2021. "Book review: Ideas of the city in Asian settings", Pacific Affairs, Vol 94, No. 3, 579-581.
Access.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2021. "Book review: Tourism and monarchy in Southeast Asia", Journal of Southeast Asian Studies, Vol 52, No. 3, 558-559. DOI: 10.1017/S0022463421000667
Access.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2020. "Sensitive and sensible tourism development: Frameworks to further the conversation".
In Ooi, Can-Seng and Hardy, Anne (eds). 2020. Tourism in Tasmania. Hobart: Forty South. 9-22. Free download.
Shelly, Becky; and Ooi, Can-Seng. 2020. "Tourism serving the community: Case of The Children's University Tasmania".
In Ooi, Can-Seng and Hardy, Anne (eds). 2020. Tourism in Tasmania. Hobart: Forty South. 209-219. Free download.
Denny, Lisa; Shelly, Becky; and Ooi, Can-Seng. 2020. "State of the tourism workforce in Tasmania".
In Ooi, Can-Seng and Hardy, Anne (eds). 2020. Tourism in Tasmania. Hobart: Forty South. 220-232. Free download.
Hardy, Anne; and Ooi, Can-Seng. 2020. "Tasmania: The state of the state".
In Ooi, Can-Seng and Hardy, Anne (eds). 2020. Tourism in Tasmania. Hobart: Forty South. 1-6. Free download.
Ooi, Can-Seng; and Hardy, Anne. 2020. "Tourism: Moving forward together".
In Ooi, Can-Seng and Hardy, Anne (eds). 2020. Tourism in Tasmania. Hobart: Forty South. 235-239. Free download.
Ek, Richard; Hardy, Anne; Larson, Mia; and Ooi, Can-Seng. 2020. "The emotional labor of the co-created tourism experience". In Dixit, Saurabh Kumar (ed.)
The Routledge Handbook of Tourism Experience Management and Marketing. London; Routledge. 550-559.
Ma, Yue; Hardy, Anne; and Ooi, Can-Seng. (2020). "Researching Chinese Tourists on the Move", Journal of China Tourism Research, Vol. 16, No. 2, 214-229. DOI: 10.1080/19388160.2019.1607794.
Access.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2019. "Asian tourists and cultural complexity: Implications for practice and the Asianisation of scholarship", Tourism Management Perspectives,
Vol. 31, 14-23. DOI: 10.1016/j.tmp.2019.03.007. Access.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2019. "Changing role of tourism policy in Singapore's cultural dynamics and development: From explicit to insidious", Tourism Culture and Communication.
Vol. 19, No. 4, 231-242. DOI: 10.3727/194341419X15542140077648.
Access.
Denny, Lisa; Shelly, Becky; and Ooi, Can-Seng. 2019. "Education, jobs and the political economy of tourism: Expectations and realities in the case of Tasmania",
Australasian Journal of Regional Studies. Vol. 25, No. 2, 282-305.
Free Open Access.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2019. "Singapore: Creating an ever-changing place product". In Hoyne, Andrew (ed.) The Place Economy, Volume 2.
Sydney: Hoyne. 118-128.
Ooi, Can-Seng; and Tarulevicz, Nicole. 2019. "From third world to first world: Tourism, food safety and the making of modern Singapore".
In Park, Eerang; Kim, Sangkyun; and Yeoman, Ian (eds.) Food Tourism in Asia. Singapore: Springer. 73-88. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-13-3624-9_6
Ooi, Can-Seng; and Shelley, Becky. 2019. "The Children's University Tasmania: The transformative power of tourism".
In Jamal, T. Justice and Ethics in Tourism. London: Routledge. 222-228.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2018. "Global City for the Arts: Weaving tourism into cultural policy". In Chong, Terence (ed.)
The State and the Arts in Singapore: Policies and Institutions, Singapore: World Scientific. 165-179. DOI: 10.1142/9789813236899_0008. Access.
Ma, Yue; Ooi, Can-Seng; and Hardy, Anne. 2018. "Chinese traveling overseas and their anxieties". In Yang, E. and Khoo-Lattimore, C. (eds.)
Asian Cultures and Contemprary Tourism, Singapore: Springer. 201-220. DOI: 10.1007/978-981-10-7980-1_11. Access.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2019. "Production and consumption of stories, images and fantasies: heritage, screen and literary tourism", Annals of Leisure Research,
Vol 22, No. 3, 408-410. DOI: 10.1080/10286632.2015.1084301.
Access.
Ooi, Can-Seng; and Strandgaard Pedersen, Jesper. 2017. "In search of Nordicity: How New Nordic Cuisine shaped destination branding in Copenhagen",
Journal of Gastronomy and Tourism, Vol. 2, No. 4, 217-231. DOI: 10.3727/216929717X15046207899375.
Access.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2017. "The global art city". In Hannigan, J. and Richards, G. (eds.) The SAGE Handbook of New Urban Studies, Thousand Oaks: SAGE. 207-216.
Ooi, Can-Seng, and Strandgaard Pedersen, Jesper. 2017. "Tourism, place branding and the local-turn in food: The New Nordice Cuisine". In Wagner, D., et al. (eds.)
Kulinarischer Tourismus und Weintourismus: Culinary and Wine Tourism Conference 2015, Wiesbaden: Springer. DOI: 10.1007/978-3-658-13732-8_8. Access.
Budeanu, Adriana; Miller, Graham; Moscardo, Gianna; and Ooi, Can-Seng. 2016. "Sustainable Tourism, Progress, Challenges and Opportunities",
Journal of Cleaner Production, Vol. 111, 285-294. DOI: 10.1016/j.jclepro.2015.10.027.
Access.
Coca-Stefaniak, A. et al. 2016. "Editorial", International Journal of Tourism Cities, Vol. 2, No. 4, 273-280. DOI: 10.1108/IJTC-10-2016-0041.
Access.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2015. "Cultural tourism". In Dahlgaard-Park, Su Mi (ed.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Quality and the Service Economy, London: SAGE. 108-110.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2015. "Destination marketing". In Dahlgaard-Park, Su Mi (ed.) The SAGE Encyclopedia of Quality and the Service Economy, London: SAGE. 154-156.
Lai, Shevren; and Ooi, Can-Seng. 2015. "Branded as a World Heritage city: The politics afterwards", Place Branding and Public Diplomacy,
Vol. 11, No. 4, 276-292. DOI:10.1057/pb.2015.12
Access.
Gulrud, Natalie Marie; and Ooi, Can-Seng. 2015 "Manufacturing green consensus: Urban greenspace governance in Singapore". In Sandberg, L. Anders; Bardekjian, Adrina; and Butt, Sadia (eds.) Urban Forests, Trees, and Greenspace: A Political Ecology Perspective,
New York: Routledge. 77-92.
Ooi, Can-Seng; Håkanson, Lars; and LaCava, Laura. 2014. "Poetics and politics of the European Capital of Culture project",
Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences, Vol 148, 420-427. DOI: 10.1016/j.sbspro.2014.07.061. Download.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2014. "Accentuating complexity and ambiguity: Dialogism and its methodological implications".
In Meged, J.W.; Blichfeldt, B.S.; Hansen, L.A.; and Hvass, K.A. (eds.) Tourism Methodologies - New Perspectives, Practices and Proceedings.
Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press. 155-174.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2014. "The making of the copy-cat city: Accreditation tactics in place branding".
In Berg, P.O. and Björner, E. (eds.) Branding Chinese Mega-Cities: Policies, Practices and Positioning. Cheltenham: Edward Elgar. 232-248.
Ooi, Can-Seng and Lai, Shevren. 2014. "Creative heritage: Melaka and its past". In L. Marques and G. Richards (eds)Creative districts around the world. Breda:
CELTH/NHTV. 164-169. [A creative commons open-access book]
Ooi, Can-Seng and Munar, Ana María. 2013. "Digital social construction of a tourist site: Ground Zero". In Munar, Ana María; Gyimöthy, Szilvia; and Cai, Liping (eds).
Tourism Social Media: Transformations in Identity, Community and Culture. Bingley: Emerald. 159-175.
Ren, Carina; and Ooi, Can-Seng. 2013. "Auto-communicating micro-Orientalism: articulating 'Denmark' in China at the Shanghai Expo".
Asia Europe Journal. Vol 11, No. 2, 129-145. DOI: 10.1007/s10308-013-0346-6.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2013."Tourism policy challenges: Balancing acts, co-operative stakeholders and maintaining authenticity". In M. Smith and G. Richards (eds). Routledge Handbook of Cultural Tourism. New York: Routledge. 67-74.
Munar, Ana Maria; and Ooi, Can-Seng. 2012. "The truth of the crowds: social media and the heritage experience". In L. Smith, E. Waterton and S. Watson (eds).
The Cultural Moment in Tourism. New York: Routledge. 255-273.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2011. "Branding and the accreditation approach: Singapore". In Morgan, Nigel; Pritchard,
Annette; and Pride, Roger (eds). Destination Brands: Managing Place Reputation, 3rd edition. Oxford: Elsevier. 185-196.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2011. "Paradoxes of city branding and societal changes". In Dinnie, Keith (ed.) City Branding: Theory and Cases. Hampshire, UK: Palgrave Macmillan. 54-61.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2010. "Political pragmatism and the creative economy: Singapore as a City for the Arts", International Journal of Cultural Policy, Vol. 16, No. 4, 403-417. Link.
Ooi, Can-Seng and Strandgaard Pedersen, Jesper. 2010. "City branding and film festivals: Re-evaluating stakeholders' relations", Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, Vol. 6, 4, 316-332.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2010. "Histories, tourism and museums: Re-making Singapore". In Hitchcock, Michael; King, Victor T. and Parnwell, Michael (eds) Heritage Tourism in Southeast Asia. Copenhagen: NIAS Press. 83-102.
Ooi, Can-Seng and Birgit Stoeber. 2010. "Authenticity and Place Branding: The Arts and Culture in Branding Berlin and Singapore". In Britta Timm Knudsen and Anne Marit Waade (eds.), Re-Investing Authenticity: Tourism, Places and Emotions. Bristol: Channel View Publications. 66-79.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2009. "The Orient responds: Tourism, orientalism and the national museums of Singapore", Ratasatra San [Bulletin of the Faculty of Political Sciences, Thammasat University]. Vol. 30, No. 2 (May - August), 113-155. (in Thai, translated by Chewasit Boonyakiet)
Stoeber, Birgit and Can-Seng Ooi. 2009. "Kreatives Singapour" [Creative Singapore]. In Lange, B.; Kalandides, A.; Stoeber, B. and Wellmann, I. (eds.) Governance der Kreativwirtschaft [Governing the Creative Industries]. Bielefeld: Transcript. [in German]
Ooi,
Can-Seng. 2008. "Reimagining Singapore as a creative nation: The
politics of place branding", Place Branding and Public Diplomacy, Vol. 4, 287-302.
Ooi,
Can-Seng. 2008. "The Danish seduction of the China outbound tourism market: new issues for tourism research". In Worm, V. (ed.)
China - Business Opportunities in a Globalizing Economy. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press. 171-191.
Ooi,
Can-Seng. 2008. "Strategier for markedsfoering af steder: En sammenligning af Danmark og Singapore". In Lorenzen, M; Kristensen, T.;
Skov, L. og Pedersen, J.S. (red.) Naar Oplevelser Moeder Oekonomi: Kreative Virksomheder, Brancher og Steder. Aarhus: Klim. 249-263. [in Danish].
Ooi,
Can-Seng. 2007. "The creative industries and tourism in Singapore". In Greg Richards and Julie Wilson (eds.) Tourism, Creativity and Development. London: Routledge. 240-251.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2007. "Fra ignorant til intelligent turist: Decentering og recentering af kulturer" [From ignoramous to intelligent tourist: Decentering and recentering of culture]. In Soerensen, A. (ed.) Grundbog i turisme [Essential Readings for Tourism Studies].
Copenhagen: Frydenlund. 69-81. (in Danish, translated by Anders Soerensen)
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2006. "Dialogic heritage: Time, space and visions of the National Museums of Singapore", Thammasat University Archives Bulletin, 9, 56-71. (in Thai, translated by Chewasit Boonyakiet)
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2005. "The Orient responds: Tourism, Orientalism and the national museums of Singapore", Tourism, Vol. 53 No. 4, 285-299.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2005."State-civil society relations and tourism: Singaporeanizing tourists, touristifying Singapore", SOJOURN: Journal of Social Issues in Southeast Asia, Vol. 20, No. 2, 249-272. Download.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2005. "A theory of tourism experiences". In O'Dell, T. and Billing, P. (eds) Experiencescapes: Culture, Tourism and
Economy, Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press. 51-68.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2004. "Brand Singapore: The hub of New Asia". In Morgan, N., Pritchard, A. and Pride, R. (eds) Destination Branding,
2nd edition.Oxford: Elsevier Butterworth Heinnman. 242-260.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2004. "Tourism experiences as attention products". In Kylaanen, M (ed.) Articles on Experiences.
Rovaniemi Finland: The Experience Institute.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2004. "The poetics and politics of
destination branding:Denmark", Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, Vol. 3, No. 2, 107-128.
Ooi, Can-Seng; Tatjana Pejic Kristensen and Zdenka Lomanova Pedersen. 2004. "Re-imag(in)ing place: From Czechoslovakia to the Czech Republic
and Slovakia", Tourism, Vol. 52, No. 2, 151-163.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2003. "Identities, museums and tourism in Singapore: think regionally, act locally", Indonesia and the Malay World,
Vol. 31, No. 2. 80-90.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2002. "Contrasting strategies: tourism in Denmark and Singapore", Annals of Tourism Research, Vol. 29, No. 3, 689-706.
Ooi,
Can-Seng. 2001. "Dialogic heritage: time, space and visions of the National Museum of Singapore" In Teo, Peggy; Chang, T.C. and Ho, K.C.
(eds.) Interconnected
Worlds: Tourism in Southeast Asia.Amsterdam: Elsevier. 171-188.
Ooi, Can-Seng.
2001. "Decoding and manufacturing cultures: interpreting Singapore for tourists", CAUCE: A Journal of Philology, Vol. 24,617-635. Download.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2001. "Tourist historical products: packaged past of Denmark and Singapore", Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, Vol. 1, No. 2, 113-132.
Working papers
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2013. Why are cities becoming alike when each city is branded as different?.
Center for Leisure and Culture Services Working Paper Series, May 2013. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School. 17pp. Download.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2013. How to capture and present complexity, ambivalence and ambiguity: Applying dialogism in social science research.
Center for Leisure and Culture Services Working Paper Series, April 2013. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School. 13pp. Download.
Ren, Carina and Ooi, Can-Seng. 2012.
Auto-communication and Micro-orientalism at the Shanghai Expo 2010 - Performing and regulating 'Danishness'. Center for Leisure and Culture Services Working Paper Series, December 2012.
Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School. 26pp. Download.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2012.
Good tourism policies: Walking the tight rope. Center for International Business and Emerging Markets Working Paper Series, January 2012. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School. 11pp. Download.
Munar, Ana Maria and Ooi, Can-Seng. 2012. What social media tell us about the heritage experience. Center for Leisure and Culture Services Working Paper Series, April 2012.
Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School. 18pp.Download.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2010. Branding Cities, Changing Societies. Creative Encounters Working Paper #45. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School. 17pp. Download.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2009. Familiarity and uniqueness: Branding Singapore as a revitalized destination.
Creative Encounters Working Paper #36. Copenhagen: Imagine.. Creative Industry Research Centre. 18pp. Download.
Ooi, Can-Seng and Jesper Strandgaard Pedersen. 2009.
City Branding and Film Festivals: The case of Copenhagen. Creative Encounters Working Paper #28. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School. 43pp. Download.
Ooi, Can-Seng and Birgit
Stoeber. 2008. Authenticity in Context. Creative Encounters Working Papers #6. Copenhagen: Imagine.. Creative Industry Research Centre. 19pp. Download .
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2007. Chinese
Tourists in Denmark. Creative Encounters Working Papers #5.
Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School. 19pp. Download.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2006. Tales
from Two Countries: The Place Branding of Denmark and Singapore, Copenhagen Discussion Papers 9-2006, Copenhagen: ARC, CBS. 32pp. Download
.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2006. Tourism
and the Creative Economy in Singapore, INT Working Paper,
Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School. 19pp. Download
.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2005. "Orientalist tourist images and their consequences: Towards a critical analysis", Embodying Tourism Research:
Advancing Critical Approaches Conference Working Papers, Dubrovnik, Croatia 30 June-3 July 2005. 149-157.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2005. Orientalist
Imaginations and Touristification of Museums: Experiences from Singapore,
Copenhagen Discussion Papers 1-2005, Copenhagen: Asia Research Centre,
Copenhagen Business School. 23pp. Download
.
Ooi, Can-Seng; Tatjiana
Pejic Kristensen and Zdenka Lomanova Pedersen. 2004. Emerging
Place Image: From Czechoslovakia to the Czech Republic and Slovakia. INT
Working Paper, Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School. 30pp. Download
.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2004. "The orientalist tourist gaze
and its consequences". Paper presented at the 6th
ASEAN Inter-University Conference, Penang, Malaysia, May 2004.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2003. Crafting Tourism Experiences:
Managing the Attention Product", Experiencing an Adventure:
Proceedings from the 12th Nordic Symposium in
Tourism and Hospitality Research .Stavanger, Norwegian School
of Hotel Management.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2002. "The poetics and politics of
branding Denmark". Paper presented at the 11th Nordic Symposium in
Tourism and Hospitality Research, Gotenberg, Sweden, November 2002.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2002. "Mediated experiences and the
dynamics of cultural consumption". Paper presented at Tourism Research
2002, Cardiff, September 2002
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2001. "Dialogic of balance: tourism,
culture and politics". Paper presented at the 5th
ASEAN Inter-University Conference, Singapore, 23-25 May 2001.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2001. "A nice and cosy place: the
brand strategy Denmark". Paper presented at the first Danish-Anglo
seminar on tourism research, Beamish Open Air Museum, September.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2000. "Dialogic tourism: when
leisure business becomes part of local culture". Paper presented at the
Leisure Studies Association 2000 Conference, Glasgow, UK.
Ooi, Can-Seng. 1999. "Constructing a Southeast
Asian heritage". Paper presented at the 4th
ASEAN Inter-University Conference, Pattani, Thailand, June.
Ooi, Can-Seng and Esben Karmark. 1998. "History in
identity: the past tells of the present and future". IKL Occasional
Paper 53. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School.
Others
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2007. "Authenticity and the Art of
Branding Places", Lilje-Rapporten: Dansk Oplevelsesoekonomi, Nr. 5
(Vinter 07/08): 4-5 (Newsletter of the Danish Experience Economy
Network)
Ooi, Can-Seng. 2001. Mediated cultures:
production and consumption of Copenhagen and Singapore. Ph.D.
Series 1.2001. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School.
