{"id":10151,"date":"2023-10-25T18:13:02","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T10:13:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.iftm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/?p=10151"},"modified":"2024-01-09T09:32:49","modified_gmt":"2024-01-09T01:32:49","slug":"prof-chin-ee-ong-is-back-at-iftm-sharing-his-cultural-heritage-knowledge-after-more-than-a-decade-outside-macao","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.utm.edu.mo\/NewsPortal\/prof-chin-ee-ong-is-back-at-iftm-sharing-his-cultural-heritage-knowledge-after-more-than-a-decade-outside-macao\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof. Chin-Ee Ong is back at IFTM sharing his cultural heritage knowledge, after more than a decade outside Macao<\/strong>"},"content":{"rendered":"\u4e2d\u6587\u6458\u8981 \/ Summary in Chinese<\/span>\n\n\n\n
Recently appointed to a second stint at IFTM, Prof. Chin-Ee Ong talks about his work over the years, including his latest research focus: \u2018plasmatic thinking\u2019 and tourism. The Singaporean scholar also explains why he chose to return to the Institute<\/em><\/em><\/h5>\n\n\n\n

Much has changed at IFTM since Prof. Chin-Ee Ong last lectured at the Institute in 2012. The Taipa Campus has been established, several postgraduate degrees are being offered, and the student body has grown. Nevertheless, the Singaporean academic still considers IFTM \u2018home\u2019.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He returned to the Institute in September as Professor of Cultural and Tourism Management. Prof. Ong says in his years away, he not only gained additional academic experience, but also improved his research skills. He now plans to put all that at IFTM\u2019s service.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His debut on the Mong-H\u00e1 Campus was in 2006 to teach undergraduate courses for the Heritage Management Programme, now the Cultural and Heritage Management Programme. Prof. Ong remembers his initial spell at the Institute as a wonderful opportunity to learn. It was about \u201cgrowing up to be a better person, and not just in terms of career advancement as an academic,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

From IFTM, he moved to Wageningen University, in the Netherlands, where he lectured for more than 3 years, and had the chance to collaborate with world-renowned scholars in the fields of cultural geography and tourism. From 2015 to 2019, he taught human geography at the National University of Singapore. He then became an associate professor of Tourism Management at Sun Yat-sen University in Guangdong province, Mainland China, before returning to IFTM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Institute provides \u201ca full challenge\u201d, enabling him to pursue various projects, not only about the Guangdong-Hong Kong-Macao Greater Bay Area, but also China as whole, as well as local Macao studies, says Prof. Ong, explaining why he chose to return to IFTM.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cultural geography is his speciality. He obtained his PhD in Tourism Management from the University of Waikato in New Zealand. Instead of looking at tourism from just a marketing or business-related perspective, Prof. Ong\u2019s focus is more linked to the social sciences. \u201cIt is a mix of tourism studies and cultural studies,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scholar argues that tourism and culture go hand in hand. It is a principle he aims to impart to his undergraduate students, using regional examples in addition to local case studies.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI would like students to show me things that they find interesting\u201d in relation to Macao, Prof. Ong says. \u201cI\u2019ll also show them some locations that are worth looking into, like the shipyards in Lai Chi Vun.\u201d After that, \u201cwe can converse,\u201d to develop a relationship of mutual educational benefit, says the academic.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

He\u2019s a prolific researcher. One of his latest efforts is titled \u201cPlasmatic thinking and tourism: Plasmatic modernity\u201d. The paper, published in September, focuses on tourism in Macao.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u2018Plasmatic thinking\u2019 is a new conceptual framework proposed by Prof. Ong. According to him, it \u201cchallenges the static and stable view of our material and social worlds.\u201d Prof. Ong says this approach \u201cstresses the need to illuminate the \u2018charges\u2019 that initiate and hold social and material situations together.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scholar leads a busy academic life, including serving as editor-in-chief for the scholarly journal Tourist Studies. He is also a coordinator for the Heritage Tourism and Education Group at the Association of Leisure and Tourism Education (ATLAS).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Additionally, Prof. Ong is the Reviews Editor for social science-based academic journal Hospitality and Society. He is also on the editorial board of various tourism-related journals.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The scholar was an editor for the book \u201cTheming Asia: Culture, Nature and Heritage in a Transforming Environment\u201d, published by Routledge in 2018. It examines theming, theme parks and themed spaces in the contemporary Asian tourism market, from theoretical, thematic, and empirical standpoints. It draws on case studies from Mainland China, the Hong Kong region, Japan, Kazakhstan, Malaysia, and Singapore.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Prof. Ong also serves as visiting professor at Xinjiang University\u2019s School of Tourism Management, in Xinjiang Uygur Autonomous Region, Mainland China.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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