Pub Date : 2023-08-04DOI: 10.1177/14687976231189833
Jiayu Wu, Juan Tang, Elizabeth Agyeiwaah
With much academic attention to experiential learning in on-site tourism experiences, the benefits of Zen meditation tourism on Generation Z after their re-entry into daily secular life remains largely unexplored. Drawing on experiential learning theory, this study explores the benefits experienced by participants after Zen meditation tourism in three stages including reflection, learning results, and active experimentation. Employing phenomenology-based ethnography, six consecutive rounds of online face-to-face interviews were conducted with 12 informants who were continuously traced after attending a Zen camp. The study findings revealed long-term positive benefits in three aspects of this generational cohort. First, Zen practices tend to be fading yet abiding after the Zen camp which continues sporadically into daily life. Second, socialisation is continuously progressive; but self-growth is complicated and unstable. Theoretical and practical implications of these novel findings are discussed.
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Pub Date : 2023-08-02DOI: 10.1177/14687976231189834
Alexandra Witte
This article examines how various stakeholders’ practices on the ground mobilise and immobilise the Chamagudao’s heritage as a historic trade and caravan route. The research is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Yunnan, China, following movements of tourists, guides, residents and information on the remaining trails of the Chamagudao. It outlines how nodes, constructed by state actors and touristic media, rather than the lines of mobile heritage primarily constitute the Chamagudao, and the implications for tourists’ awareness and understanding of the Chamagudao as mobile heritage. Explicitly mobile practices occurring along its trajectories are challenging the nodal interpretations of this historic route. The article offers a mobile perspective on assessing the opportunities and challenges faced by tourism routes in China in the governments bid to develop these as mobile heritage destinations.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-14DOI: 10.1177/14687976231177963
M. Ord, Adam Behr
Since becoming a UNESCO ‘City of Music’ in 2008, Glasgow has sought to develop the tourism potential of its music scene. As potential beneficiaries, accommodation providers have facilitated the development of music tourism initiatives within the city, strategically positioning themselves as ambassadors for the city’s music. This article considers how three Glasgow hotels ‘curate’ the musical life of the city, presenting themselves as facilitators of cultural experiences rather than mere service providers. We draw on interviews alongside an analysis of marketing discourse to show how this approach is reflected in the physical space of hotels, recruitment practices, and the language of promotional materials. Arguing that the packaging of musical experience often implies an instrumentalist understanding of music’s cultural value, we consider what it means for music to be re-imagined as an ‘experience’, and how music’s value as a resource for self-construction is articulated within the discourse of contemporary tourism.
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Pub Date : 2023-06-01Epub Date: 2023-05-02DOI: 10.1177/14687976231169559
Bente Heimtun, Arvid Viken
COVID-19 effectively stopped tourism mobilities for a time. Theoretically, this qualitative study draws on the notion of responsibility, as in responsibility to act and responsibility to Otherness. We explore how, during the pandemic, Norwegian tourists dealt with infection preventive measures, how they changed travel habits and how the pandemic transformed their thinking on tourism and climate change. The tourists were loyal citizens adhering to the authorities' measures and refrained from international holidays, thereby taking responsibility for the governmentally enforced dugnad (collective efforts). This temporal change in travel habits, however, was not expected to become the new normal, as warmer, southern destinations were still desired. Culturally embedded neoliberal values of freedom of movement were, for most of these tourists, stronger than the threat of climate crisis. Fatalistically, we conclude that COVID-19 did not have the power to transform their mind-sets regarding responsible tourism futures and free them from neoliberal shackles.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-25DOI: 10.1177/14687976231171713
Susan Frohlick, Celeste Macevicius
This paper explores quests for silence in tourism in English-language online media. We offer a reading of media forms all articulating a soundscape of silence: a preferred sonic environment for tourists’ health and well-being. A relational and reflexive approach allows us to interrogate these taken-for-granted desired silences, and to emplace ourselves in the analysis. Using critical discourse analysis, we try to listen to the sounds produced in the texts, and to write with, and about, the sounds that resonate with us, to disrupt the naturalization implicit to the silent tourism soundscapes. Such calls for silent tourism use vocabularies that reproduce a universalistic aurality and binaries of wanted/unwanted, silence/noise, nonhuman/human, good/bad that moralize and objectify. Relational ontology and feminist critiques of “soundscape” help us to rethink silent tourism as ways of knowing. Ultimately, in the media we reflect on and are not separate from sonic ways of knowing seem very much entangled with wealth, privilege, individualism, and settler positionalities.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-21DOI: 10.1177/14687976231168941
Mariana Carvalho, E. Kastenholz, M. J. Carneiro, L. Souza
Gastronomy has become a distinctive tourism product with the potential of contributing to visitors’ engaged immersion in destinations. Few studies have reflected on visitors’ perceptions of participation in food tour experiences, and research on co-creation in food tours is even more scarce. This study analyses co-creative tourism experience dimensions, previously identified in the literature, through a passive netnography, involving 658 online tourist reviews on TripAdvisor of a food tour experience in Lisbon, to understand how value was co-created by comparing the perceptions of visitors and the service provider. Interview-based data were subject to content analysis. Results showed that “aesthetics/sense,” “feel,” “thinking/education,” “relate,” and “personalization” were the most reported dimensions in tourists’ discourse, which was confirmed by the service provider. The present study provides insights to destination management organizations, marketers and entrepreneurs in creating opportunities for and designing appealing co-creative food experiences.
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Pub Date : 2023-05-09DOI: 10.1177/14687976231169412
Q. Guo, Tong Wen, Bo Zhang, J. Li
Given both the popularity of street vendors and the government resistance to them in tourism governance, we interview vendors between September 2014 and May 2021 to gain insights into the interactions and conflicts between vendors, local enterprises and government departments in Canton, China. We derive a theory of ‘He Wei Gui’ from Chinese Confucian culture and adopt discourse analysis to investigate how informal tourism photography vendors in the Canton Tower Scenic Area resolve their conflicts. We argue that photography vendors have developed a harmonious but fragile coexistence through the use of measures such as fuzzification of public space, flexible industry regulations, output of emotional capital and normalised ways, thereby demonstrating the business acumen of little people. In contrast to the existing trend of ‘rigid governance’, the authors suggest applying ‘flexible management’ in the informal economy and tourism governance, and giving prominence to the principal role of informal operators or little people. In addition, this flexible management reflects the tacit consent from all the stakeholders, the active suing for nonviolent solution from the vulnerable and the willingness of modifying or even creating rules for balancing the distribution of the interests from the dominant stakeholder. The key to this flexible management is that authorities take the investment of emotional capital of the vulnerable groups into consideration. This leads to fuzzy governance which blurs and integrates emotions into the rules, making it possible to solve the conflicts in a more flexible way.
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Pub Date : 2023-04-28DOI: 10.1177/14687976231168940
A. Russo
This paper explores how places are culturally constructed through the practices, bodily performances and memories of dwelling in the context of places that stand out as destinations of temporary mobilities. To do this, I narrate my own personal experiences of finding my way and respectively make or contest personal roots, in two autoethnographic accounts of my city of origin, Venice, where I return occasionally, and in Barcelona, where I settled in the 2000 decade. In these memoirs, I excavate on the nexa between domestic home spaces and public life in the urban space, focusing especially on my experiences of homing, on the assemblage of domestic spaces as unfolding in a negotiation between my old and new self, my family (past and present), and other place users, including friends and passers-by in the spaces in questions. My own navigation and mooring in those cities is analysed as a collective, relational process that calls in affinity and distancing, serendipitous engagements and purposeful disengagements. In this way I hope to shed more light on the cultural construction of two cities that stand out as ‘touristed’ places, and contribute to debates on translocal urbanism and the need for an embodied, grounded understanding of the social and cultural evolution of cities.
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Pub Date : 2023-03-01DOI: 10.1177/14687976231157932
Chin-Ee Ong, Susan Frohlick
Prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, tourism economies in Asia were booming in ways unimagined previously. References to ‘The Asian Century’, a term invented by former Chinese leader Deng Xiaoping to proclaim the foreseeable economic triumph of the continent, signalled the traction gained by tourism research on Asia in terms of the quantity of articles published in international as well as domestic platforms (Sin et al., 2021). ‘Asia’ is a tricky term. The cultural and economic diversity of Asia and its imprecise and contested borders make definitions a daunting task, yet shared challenges and opportunities do unite Asia as a constellation of peoples and places. While the coronavirus disease in 2020 put a stop both to the momentum of Asian tourism and tourism research underway at the time, in 2023 at Tourist Studies we now see possibilities emerging from the painful shadows of the pandemic – possibilities to build back the scholarship theoretically, methodologically and empirically. Tourism scholarship in Asia started off on the backs of Anglo-western concepts and methodologies (Winter, 2009). On top of cultural and societal mismatches between the 1157932 TOU0010.1177/14687976231157932Tourist StudiesOng and Frohlick editorial2023
在新冠肺炎大流行之前，亚洲旅游经济以前所未有的方式蓬勃发展。“亚洲世纪”是中国前领导人邓小平为宣布亚洲大陆可预见的经济胜利而发明的一个术语，从国际和国内平台上发表的文章数量来看，它标志着亚洲旅游研究的吸引力（Sin et al.，2021）“亚洲”是一个棘手的术语。亚洲的文化和经济多样性及其不精确和有争议的边界使定义成为一项艰巨的任务，但共同的挑战和机遇确实将亚洲作为一个民族和地区团结在一起。虽然2020年的冠状病毒疾病阻止了亚洲旅游业和当时正在进行的旅游研究的势头，但在2023年的旅游研究中，我们现在看到了从疫情的痛苦阴影中出现的可能性——从理论、方法和经验上重建学术的可能性。亚洲的旅游学术起步于英美概念和方法论（Winter，2009）。除了1157932 TOU0010.1177/14687976231157932 Tourist StudiesOng和Frohlick编辑2023之间的文化和社会不匹配
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