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Placemaking with purpose: Sustainable community planning and tourism geography in the Asian context
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Placemaking with purpose: Sustainable community planning and tourism geography in the Asian context

  • 09:00–09:55 UK time55 minutes
  • Online, on Zoom, inside ScholardemiaRegister, then join on this page from 08:50. How to join
  • T. C. Chang and CB RamkumarConvened by Prof. Eugenia Wickens

This webinar explores how spatial evidence and community planning can support liveable tourism destinations across diverse Asian settings.

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Speaker update, 2 October 2026: Confirmed speakers: T. C. Chang and CB Ramkumar.
Land use, transport, public space, heritage and access to everyday services determine how tourism becomes part of a place. This webinar applies geographical analysis and community planning to varied Asian contexts. It examines how spatial evidence can reveal relationships among visitor activity, local livelihoods and environmental limits. The session will avoid treating Asia as a single tourism model by recognising differences in governance, development patterns, culture, ecology and the scale at which tourism is experienced.
Panellists will compare fragile coastal areas, mountain settlements, historic urban districts and expanding cities. The discussion will use mapping to examine displacement, concentrated visitor activity, environmental exposure and community access to public resources. It will consider how infrastructure and property investment change the distribution of opportunity and risk. Attention will also be given to informal economies and uses of space that may be absent from official datasets but remain essential to the social and economic life of a destination.
Participants will learn to combine spatial data with community knowledge when identifying planning priorities. They will consider accessibility, land tenure, public space, heritage protection and ecosystem capacity within a shared analytical framework. The webinar will also address participation in planning and the authority required to influence investment decisions. Delegates will leave with methods for developing community-led spatial plans that protect livelihoods and cultural meaning while supporting ecological stability, and for comparing destinations without erasing the distinct histories and institutions that shape each place. This approach places spatial justice alongside commercial feasibility in destination planning decisions.

How to join

This webinar runs on Zoom. You join it here on Scholardemia, where the meeting opens inside the page with the chat, questions and polls beside it. You do not need a Zoom account or a Zoom link.

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  2. Come back on the dayThe room opens at 08:50 on Friday 7 May. We email you reminders with the Join button 24 hours and 1 hour before.
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T. C. Chang

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CB Ramkumar

Founder · HotelBFF

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Placemaking with purpose: Sustainable community planning and tourism geography in the Asian context

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This webinar explores how spatial evidence and community planning can support liveable tourism destinations across diverse Asian settings.

  • 09:00–09:55 UK time08:00 UTC
  • Online, on Zoom, inside Scholardemia · 55 minutesRegister, then join on this page from 08:50. How to join
  • T. C. Chang and CB RamkumarConvened by Prof. Eugenia Wickens

About this webinar

Speaker update, 2 October 2026: Confirmed speakers: T. C. Chang and CB Ramkumar.
Land use, transport, public space, heritage and access to everyday services determine how tourism becomes part of a place. This webinar applies geographical analysis and community planning to varied Asian contexts. It examines how spatial evidence can reveal relationships among visitor activity, local livelihoods and environmental limits. The session will avoid treating Asia as a single tourism model by recognising differences in governance, development patterns, culture, ecology and the scale at which tourism is experienced.
Panellists will compare fragile coastal areas, mountain settlements, historic urban districts and expanding cities. The discussion will use mapping to examine displacement, concentrated visitor activity, environmental exposure and community access to public resources. It will consider how infrastructure and property investment change the distribution of opportunity and risk. Attention will also be given to informal economies and uses of space that may be absent from official datasets but remain essential to the social and economic life of a destination.
Participants will learn to combine spatial data with community knowledge when identifying planning priorities. They will consider accessibility, land tenure, public space, heritage protection and ecosystem capacity within a shared analytical framework. The webinar will also address participation in planning and the authority required to influence investment decisions. Delegates will leave with methods for developing community-led spatial plans that protect livelihoods and cultural meaning while supporting ecological stability, and for comparing destinations without erasing the distinct histories and institutions that shape each place. This approach places spatial justice alongside commercial feasibility in destination planning decisions.

How to join

This webinar runs on Zoom. You join it here on Scholardemia, where the meeting opens inside the page with the chat, questions and polls beside it. You do not need a Zoom account or a Zoom link.

  1. RegisterFree, with your Scholardemia account.
  2. Come back on the dayThe room opens at 08:50 on Friday 7 May. We email you reminders with the Join button 24 hours and 1 hour before.
  3. Press JoinSign in with the same account. The meeting opens here, with questions, polls and the group chat beside it.

Use an up-to-date Chrome, Edge, Safari or Firefox. Allow sound when your browser asks, and use headphones if you can.

Speakers and convenor

Prof. T. C. Chang

Presenter

National University of Singapore

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CB Ramkumar

Presenter

Founder · HotelBFF

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Prof. Eugenia Wickens

Convenor

OTS Academy

United Kingdom

Professor Eugenia Wickens edits the Journal On Tourism & Sustainability (JOTS) and the Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Education (JTHE), and chairs Scholardemia webinar sessions. Her research covers tourist experience and typologies, tourism routes and rural development, volunteer tourism, and event and cultural tourism. Formerly Reader in Tourism at Buckinghamshire New University, she has helped plan tourism education in Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Serbia, Greece, Ireland and Turkey.

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Prof. Eugenia Wickens

Convenor

OTS Academy

United Kingdom

Professor Eugenia Wickens edits the Journal On Tourism & Sustainability (JOTS) and the Journal of Tourism and Hospitality Education (JTHE), and chairs Scholardemia webinar sessions. Her research covers tourist experience and typologies, tourism routes and rural development, volunteer tourism, and event and cultural tourism. Formerly Reader in Tourism at Buckinghamshire New University, she has helped plan tourism education in Malaysia, Cambodia, Laos, Nepal, Serbia, Greece, Ireland and Turkey.

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