Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2023.2178926
Marcelo Royo Vela, Alexis Garzón Paredes
ABSTRACT The research objective is to test the effects of heritage on the Tourist Destination Image formation. A multi-method quantitative approach applying surveys and neuromarketing were applied. Three different surveys were carried out in three different moments of the touristic visit to measure the heritage impact on the dynamics of destination image. Furthermore, a neuromarketing experiment using electroencephalogram and virtual reality were carried out to measure the emotional and cognitive responses to heritage and their effects on the TDI formation. Results show, either the surveys or the neuromarketing experiment, a clear emotional response to heritage that, indeed, has a positive effect in the cultural destination image. The conclusion suggests a line of research for the development and improvement of TDI models for cultural destinations which would incorporate the in situ emotional response in an appraisal approach to emotions.
{"title":"Effects of heritage on destination image: multi-method research based on an appraisal approach to emotional response in-situ","authors":"Marcelo Royo Vela, Alexis Garzón Paredes","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2023.2178926","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2023.2178926","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The research objective is to test the effects of heritage on the Tourist Destination Image formation. A multi-method quantitative approach applying surveys and neuromarketing were applied. Three different surveys were carried out in three different moments of the touristic visit to measure the heritage impact on the dynamics of destination image. Furthermore, a neuromarketing experiment using electroencephalogram and virtual reality were carried out to measure the emotional and cognitive responses to heritage and their effects on the TDI formation. Results show, either the surveys or the neuromarketing experiment, a clear emotional response to heritage that, indeed, has a positive effect in the cultural destination image. The conclusion suggests a line of research for the development and improvement of TDI models for cultural destinations which would incorporate the in situ emotional response in an appraisal approach to emotions.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":"18 1","pages":"531 - 555"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-03-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47326974","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-14DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2023.2178927
Guanda Wu, Shitian Chen, Yu-Hua Xu
ABSTRACT Cultural heritage tourism (CHT) has become increasingly popular among the general public, enriching tourists’ cultural experiences and realizing their generative needs. However, limited academic attention has been paid to the research on young people’s generative needs in CHT. Therefore, this study investigated college students’ generativity and developed an extended TPB model to explore the factors influencing their travel intention in CHT. Multiple linear regression analysis was performed on the questionnaire data of 233 college students. The results indicated that college students’ generativity, attitude towards CHT, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control all positively affected their intention to participate in CHT. The positive correlation between young people’s generativity and their travel intention in CHT has contributed to the existing literature on tourist behavior. Meanwhile, some practical implications were provided for tourism managers and marketers to attract the young generation to engage in CHT.
{"title":"Generativity and inheritance: understanding Generation Z’s intention to participate in cultural heritage tourism","authors":"Guanda Wu, Shitian Chen, Yu-Hua Xu","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2023.2178927","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2023.2178927","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Cultural heritage tourism (CHT) has become increasingly popular among the general public, enriching tourists’ cultural experiences and realizing their generative needs. However, limited academic attention has been paid to the research on young people’s generative needs in CHT. Therefore, this study investigated college students’ generativity and developed an extended TPB model to explore the factors influencing their travel intention in CHT. Multiple linear regression analysis was performed on the questionnaire data of 233 college students. The results indicated that college students’ generativity, attitude towards CHT, subjective norm, and perceived behavioral control all positively affected their intention to participate in CHT. The positive correlation between young people’s generativity and their travel intention in CHT has contributed to the existing literature on tourist behavior. Meanwhile, some practical implications were provided for tourism managers and marketers to attract the young generation to engage in CHT.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":"18 1","pages":"465 - 482"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"42318355","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-09DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2023.2169152
Zaid Alrawadieh, G. Prayag, Ziad Alrawadieh
ABSTRACT The emotional aspects of heritage experiences remain so far under-researched with the emotional accessibility at such sites ignored. Using cognitive appraisal theory (CAT) and reversal theory, this study evaluates the role of motivation, tourism impacts, emotional accessibility, and felt emotions in determining tourist satisfaction at heritage sites. Based on a sample of 1531 international visitors to Petra, this study confirms that tourist motivation affects perceived positive but not negative tourism impacts. Tourist motivation contributes positively toward visitors accessing their emotions (emotional accessibility) derived from the site visit. However, only positive tourism impacts contribute to emotional accessibility, and the latter informs both felt positive and negative emotions. Significant relationships exist between these factors and tourist satisfaction. Implications for cultural sustainability and tourist experience management at heritage sites are suggested.
{"title":"A cognitive appraisal perspective of emotional accessibility at heritage sites: empirical evidence from the UNESCO World Heritage Site of Petra","authors":"Zaid Alrawadieh, G. Prayag, Ziad Alrawadieh","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2023.2169152","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2023.2169152","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The emotional aspects of heritage experiences remain so far under-researched with the emotional accessibility at such sites ignored. Using cognitive appraisal theory (CAT) and reversal theory, this study evaluates the role of motivation, tourism impacts, emotional accessibility, and felt emotions in determining tourist satisfaction at heritage sites. Based on a sample of 1531 international visitors to Petra, this study confirms that tourist motivation affects perceived positive but not negative tourism impacts. Tourist motivation contributes positively toward visitors accessing their emotions (emotional accessibility) derived from the site visit. However, only positive tourism impacts contribute to emotional accessibility, and the latter informs both felt positive and negative emotions. Significant relationships exist between these factors and tourist satisfaction. Implications for cultural sustainability and tourist experience management at heritage sites are suggested.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":"18 1","pages":"145 - 163"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48761678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-08DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2023.2174440
Tony Yan, M. Hyman
ABSTRACT Political legitimacy-building and tourism studies help to explain how and why China’s governing regime advanced Red Tourism to justify and reinforce its governance and legitimacy. A historical analysis of multilevel Chinese sources shows that the expressivity and value-ladenness that characterize visits to select historical sites permit governing regimes to softly augment their political legitimacy via political identity formation, political meaning framing, and nationalistic mobilization.
{"title":"Softly enhancing political legitimacy via Red Tourism","authors":"Tony Yan, M. Hyman","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2023.2174440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2023.2174440","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Political legitimacy-building and tourism studies help to explain how and why China’s governing regime advanced Red Tourism to justify and reinforce its governance and legitimacy. A historical analysis of multilevel Chinese sources shows that the expressivity and value-ladenness that characterize visits to select historical sites permit governing regimes to softly augment their political legitimacy via political identity formation, political meaning framing, and nationalistic mobilization.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":"18 1","pages":"556 - 573"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"41751087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2022.2149336
Quang Dai Tuyen, W. Noseworthy
ABSTRACT This article details the perception of indigenous Cham communities in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) with regard to the concept of authenticity. Based upon a combination of historical and anthropological methods, including interviews conducted in the Cham and Vietnamese language, and participant observation, between 2012 and 2017, we found government officials have imposed their own concept of authenticity on indigenous heritage sites, favouring tourist development. This includes the apparently mundane use of joss-stick incense. Consequentially, members of the Cham community are distraught. Incensed over incense, in a sense, they contend this is a violation of their customary practices and therefore inauthentic. Hence, we argue that if indigenous culture is over commodified, without respect for what may appear to be simple regulations, tensions will emerge, creating the perception from within the community that outside forces are collaborating to lead to the destruction of the indigenous heritage site. An alternative approach is to view the concepts of living heritage as foundational in cases where indigenous heritage is promoted for the sake of tourists. This alternative approach would lead to a decrease in potential tensions, while balancing needs of the community and tourist industry.
{"title":"Authenticity and tourism development: the simple problem of incense at Cham living heritage sites in Vietnam","authors":"Quang Dai Tuyen, W. Noseworthy","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2022.2149336","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2022.2149336","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT This article details the perception of indigenous Cham communities in the Socialist Republic of Vietnam (SRV) with regard to the concept of authenticity. Based upon a combination of historical and anthropological methods, including interviews conducted in the Cham and Vietnamese language, and participant observation, between 2012 and 2017, we found government officials have imposed their own concept of authenticity on indigenous heritage sites, favouring tourist development. This includes the apparently mundane use of joss-stick incense. Consequentially, members of the Cham community are distraught. Incensed over incense, in a sense, they contend this is a violation of their customary practices and therefore inauthentic. Hence, we argue that if indigenous culture is over commodified, without respect for what may appear to be simple regulations, tensions will emerge, creating the perception from within the community that outside forces are collaborating to lead to the destruction of the indigenous heritage site. An alternative approach is to view the concepts of living heritage as foundational in cases where indigenous heritage is promoted for the sake of tourists. This alternative approach would lead to a decrease in potential tensions, while balancing needs of the community and tourist industry.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":"18 1","pages":"283 - 303"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46622767","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-06DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2023.2171297
Ellen J. Platts, H. Keifer, K. Samuels
ABSTRACT In this study, an input-output-based hybrid life cycle assessment method is used to calculate the carbon footprint of a tourist’s travel to sixteen United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites (WHS) including direct and indirect emissions. The carbon footprint of three trip styles (budget, mid-range expenses, and high-end) is calculated for each WHS, reflecting options available to heritage tourists. This study is part of a more extensive study that created a climate communication recognition scheme (CCRS) for UNESCO WHS to communicate information about climate change to potential tourists and heritage site managers, elaborating and extending upon communication tools such as environmental product information schemes, certifications, and ecolabels. The results are intended for educational purposes and contribute to a holistic approach to carbon management in heritage tourism. The results are available online as an ArcGIS StoryMap titled Climate Footprints of Heritage Tourism.
{"title":"Carbon footprints of travel to World Heritage Sites: communicating climate to potential tourists through a consumption-based life-cycle assessment","authors":"Ellen J. Platts, H. Keifer, K. Samuels","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2023.2171297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2023.2171297","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In this study, an input-output-based hybrid life cycle assessment method is used to calculate the carbon footprint of a tourist’s travel to sixteen United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) World Heritage Sites (WHS) including direct and indirect emissions. The carbon footprint of three trip styles (budget, mid-range expenses, and high-end) is calculated for each WHS, reflecting options available to heritage tourists. This study is part of a more extensive study that created a climate communication recognition scheme (CCRS) for UNESCO WHS to communicate information about climate change to potential tourists and heritage site managers, elaborating and extending upon communication tools such as environmental product information schemes, certifications, and ecolabels. The results are intended for educational purposes and contribute to a holistic approach to carbon management in heritage tourism. The results are available online as an ArcGIS StoryMap titled Climate Footprints of Heritage Tourism.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":"18 1","pages":"407 - 426"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46093678","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-02DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2023.2169614
Abhik Chakraborty, Takeshi Takenaka
ABSTRACT Sensitive natural environments of World Natural Heritage Sites (WNHS) are prone to damage from anthropogenic stressors including tourism. This article analyzes the case of Shiretoko Peninsula in Japan and identifies several challenges for natural heritage tourism. Shiretoko Peninsula is known for the connectivity between rich marine and terrestrial ecosystems symbolized by the formation of seasonal sea ice and the occurrence of several endangered species. However, the natural environment remains fragmented and visitor increase creates new pressure on the fragile ecosystems. Based on a visitor survey, multiple stakeholder interviews, and participant observation, this study identified problems such as low stakeholder awareness of ongoing environmental change and fragmentation of ecosystems in the WNHS area, emergence of tourism and ocular consumption of wildlife as novel stressors, lack of effective science communication skills in guides, and inadequate utilization of visitor centers. In addition, inadequate legal protection of endangered species, prevalence of a species control approach in the local management, and a lack of multilingual skills among local guides affect the site. This situation necessitates an open and critical dialogue between ecological experts, heritage managers, local inhabitants, and tourists, as well as a holistic understanding of the complex challenges affecting the natural environment of the place.
{"title":"Tourism and sustainability at a crossroads in Shiretoko UNESCO World Natural Heritage Site in Japan","authors":"Abhik Chakraborty, Takeshi Takenaka","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2023.2169614","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2023.2169614","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Sensitive natural environments of World Natural Heritage Sites (WNHS) are prone to damage from anthropogenic stressors including tourism. This article analyzes the case of Shiretoko Peninsula in Japan and identifies several challenges for natural heritage tourism. Shiretoko Peninsula is known for the connectivity between rich marine and terrestrial ecosystems symbolized by the formation of seasonal sea ice and the occurrence of several endangered species. However, the natural environment remains fragmented and visitor increase creates new pressure on the fragile ecosystems. Based on a visitor survey, multiple stakeholder interviews, and participant observation, this study identified problems such as low stakeholder awareness of ongoing environmental change and fragmentation of ecosystems in the WNHS area, emergence of tourism and ocular consumption of wildlife as novel stressors, lack of effective science communication skills in guides, and inadequate utilization of visitor centers. In addition, inadequate legal protection of endangered species, prevalence of a species control approach in the local management, and a lack of multilingual skills among local guides affect the site. This situation necessitates an open and critical dialogue between ecological experts, heritage managers, local inhabitants, and tourists, as well as a holistic understanding of the complex challenges affecting the natural environment of the place.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":"18 1","pages":"202 - 223"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-02-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44055320","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-02-01DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2023.2169151
K. Thirumaran, Zohre Mohammadi, Simona Azzali, Emiel L. Eijdenberg, Gerardine Donough-Tan
ABSTRACT The position of heritage hotels in place making narratives is not secure, given the challenges of new local developments and larger international forces. This research examines Singapore’s iconic luxury heritage hotel, Raffles Singapore, against the relatively new hotels, The Fullerton Hotel Singapore and Marina Bay Sands, to identify the nexus between the island city-state’s historical and contemporary position in the changing hospitality landscape, specifically addressing the concept of place making as a dynamic narrative. Applying sentiment analysis, 454 hotel guest reviews on internationally recognized travel websites were examined. The findings suggest that the dominance of a luxury heritage hotel in the narratives of place making can shift over time, subject to postmodern architectural developments in the hotel landscape and competition from other luxury heritage hotels with iconic and location histories. A key contribution to the hospitality discipline is the measurement of a luxury heritage hotel’s staying power through continuous place making amid glocal challenges. The significance of the findings should alert hospitality practitioners specializing in marketing to potential shifts arising from continuing new competitive narratives in place making.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-09DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2022.2161907
Anna Duda
ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to present photography as an effective method for exploring abandoned heritage sites. The example of Pripyat – a city a few kilometres away from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant – will show the attitude of tourists towards a place which today is of undoubted cultural and historical value, but which is also an abandoned place. By means of semiotic and hermeneutic analysis of the photographs taken by tourists, a picture of Pripyat will be outlined, which has started to function anew in the cultural space thanks to, among others, tourist representations. A tourist’s gaze on Pripyat was analysed through the lens of four categories: must-see places, tourist performativity behaviours, the acts and ruin photos. In addition, the article outlines the direct relationship between the tourist imagination, photography, and heritage. Through tourist photography, the heritage is ‘reframed’ and domesticated. Photography also takes an active part in the process of making heritage by fragmenting the world and often putting them into a completely new context and narration and an example is abandoned Pripyat.
{"title":"Tourist photography and heritage. The case of the abandoned city of Pripyat","authors":"Anna Duda","doi":"10.1080/1743873X.2022.2161907","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873X.2022.2161907","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to present photography as an effective method for exploring abandoned heritage sites. The example of Pripyat – a city a few kilometres away from the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant – will show the attitude of tourists towards a place which today is of undoubted cultural and historical value, but which is also an abandoned place. By means of semiotic and hermeneutic analysis of the photographs taken by tourists, a picture of Pripyat will be outlined, which has started to function anew in the cultural space thanks to, among others, tourist representations. A tourist’s gaze on Pripyat was analysed through the lens of four categories: must-see places, tourist performativity behaviours, the acts and ruin photos. In addition, the article outlines the direct relationship between the tourist imagination, photography, and heritage. Through tourist photography, the heritage is ‘reframed’ and domesticated. Photography also takes an active part in the process of making heritage by fragmenting the world and often putting them into a completely new context and narration and an example is abandoned Pripyat.","PeriodicalId":47192,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Heritage Tourism","volume":"18 1","pages":"384 - 400"},"PeriodicalIF":2.7,"publicationDate":"2023-01-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46740476","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2023-01-05DOI: 10.1080/1743873X.2022.2159417
Luis Alfonso Hortelano Mínguez, Jan Mansvelt Beck
ABSTRACT The aim of this article is to establish whether fostering rural tourism by reuse and promotion of heritage has been able to mitigate the demographic decline in a depopulating area of Spain. Two types of route-based tourism in the north-west of Castile are compared, namely the millenary pilgrimage route to Santiago de Compostela and the nineteenth-century Castile Canal. For three decades, public authorities have actively stimulated tourism along these routes in order to retain the population. The findings reveal that public-sector investments and promotion have contributed to the growth of tourism along both routes but have not stopped demographic decline. The lack of revitalisation of the countryside is the result of the preceding rural exodus that has destroyed village communities.
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