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.
{"title":"Dwelling on the move: Negotiating home and place with resident communities","authors":"A. Russo","doi":"10.1177/14687976231168940","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1177/14687976231168940","url":null,"abstract":"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.","PeriodicalId":47199,"journal":{"name":"Tourist Studies","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.4,"publicationDate":"2023-04-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46504847","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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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Pub Date : 2023-02-14DOI: 10.1177/14687976231154287
Chin-Ee Ong, Simin Xu, X. Yang
This paper analyses the precarity of tourism in viral pandemic times through an analysis of animal-human relations in China’s panda and valley tourism at Dajiuzhai. Drawing on a tour to Dajiuzhai to see giant pandas and the valleys of Jiuzhai, which was disrupted midway by increased viral infections, we trace ethnographically how disruptions in tourism emerge in the micro-setting of a single viral-hit tour and highlight the roles of natural agents, pandas, valleys and virus play, alongside humans in tourism’s fluid assemblages. Desire/wish to encounter pandas motivated the formation of a fluid constellation of tourism objects, species and humans, which was aligned towards the goal of a stable tourism experience but persistently disturbed. Animal-human relation-based tourism assemblage at Dajiuzhai was found to be a fluid spatiality that coped with Covid-19 disruptions through responses at attractions involving health checks and declarations but remained precarious despite its transformational potentialities.
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Pub Date : 2023-01-30DOI: 10.1177/14687976231152705
Xiang Huang, Qingming Cui, Zhao Chen
Trust building is a core issue in couchsurfing; however, existing research has mainly focused on trust formation in Western culture and ignored other cultural contexts. This article examines couchsurfing practices in China and explores the influence of Chinese guanxi on trust formation. The results show that the general process of trust building between Chinese couchsurfers is similar to that of Western surfers, but there are also some important cultural differences, including the mandatory identity authentication required by the Chinese couchsurfing website, which builds trust in the social system. In China, gift-giving practices and social gatherings are also important in building guanxi to gain lasting trust. Finally, the guanxi between friends and acquaintances can greatly facilitate surfers’ ability to find accommodation resources and build trust. Guanxi generates a novel trust formation model based on personal networks in shared hospitality in contrast to the much-researched system trust and interpersonal trust.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.1177/14687976221144335
Xuan Dong, T. Nguyen
Power to influence is essential to encourage stakeholder involvement in tourism development, yet little is known about how power can affect stakeholder involvement in achieving sustainable tourism. This paper reports a qualitative case study to explore power relations between stakeholders concerning the sustainability of tourism destinations. The data collection involves document analysis and interviews with tourism stakeholders in Da Nang, a flagship tourist destination in central Vietnam. Our findings revealed the influence of the local community and public opinion on the change of government decisions related to a new tourism development plan. The combination of top-down influence (exercised by the central government) and bottom-up influence (manifested by the local community) forced the Da Nang government to consider the community’s voice. This research contributes to the tourism literature on community involvement in sustainable tourism by providing an understanding of reshaping power relations to increase the power balance between stakeholders. The finding recommends practical implications for destination governance in achieving environmental sustainability by involving the local community and mobilising public actions.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-28DOI: 10.1177/14687976221143243
Jiange Deng
Martial arts tourism is a burgeoning form of tourism typified by Western ‘martial arts pilgrims’ travelling to Asian ‘martial arts cradles’ for leisure-based learning, training and spectatorship. Despite its growing economic and cultural significance, research on martial arts tourism as a sociocultural practice is scant. This study argues that the intrinsic relationship of martial arts to masculinities and Asian-ness offers the opportunity to study the self-representation of ‘Asian masculine landscapes’ (AMLs) in tourism. By comparing eight destination websites in Thailand and China, this study conceives AMLs as the creative appropriation, transmogrification and hybridisation of divergent images of masculinities circulated at different scales. This conceptualisation speaks to a cultural complexity framework that moves beyond the deterministic and unidirectional paradigm of self-Orientalism by highlighting the productive role of Asian destination ‘image-makers’ as both cultural remediators and improvisers occupying the intermediary position between the homogenising and heterogenising discourses of transnational masculinities.
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Pub Date : 2022-12-01Epub Date: 2022-10-27DOI: 10.1177/14687976221131894
Jill Nh Bueddefeld, Bruce Erickson
Within nature-based tourism research, authenticity has received a great deal of attention in relation to existential authenticity and in examining the authenticity of experiences. Yet very little research exists that explores the ways in which tourists perceive wildlife as more or less authentic, as objects in nature-based tourism discourses. This qualitative case study research explores visitors' perspectives in relation to polar bear tourism in Churchill, Manitoba (in situ) and at the Assiniboine Park Zoo's 'Journey to Churchill' exhibit (ex situ) in Winnipeg, Manitoba. The 'Journey to Churchill' exhibit was built with the intention of representing aspects of the landscape, wildlife and town-site found in and around Churchill, Manitoba. These two sites provide a unique opportunity to compare in situ and ex situ nature-based tourism experiences, since the sites have similar elements such as wildlife species, landscape features and other contextual factors (such as environmental issues and cultural influence). The findings from this research suggests that perceived authenticity of the polar bears, more than the experience, contributes to the construction of learning experiences about climate change. We review the work of authenticity in nature-based tourism and suggest a rethinking of the work of authenticity for both educators and operators in nature tourism. This research has important implications for better understanding how visitors construct their perceptions of authenticity of wildlife and the implications for the ways in which wildlife tourism experiences and authenticity narratives are constructed in Anthropocene tourism.
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Pub Date : 2022-10-10DOI: 10.1177/14687976221129644
Lianping Ren
This study adopted an interpretive approach in understanding the development of the package tour industry in China and the Chinese tourists’ behavioral changes in consuming package tours, via two data sources—in-depth interviews with senior tour guides and tour operators, and content analysis of OP task sheets collected over a span of 30 years’ time. The findings revealed that substantive changes had taken place in all aspects including group structure, destination selection, itinerary, core tourist activities, supporting arrangement, personnel, and peripheral items of the package tours. The result has also shed light on the future trends and the challenges ahead, especially in the post-COVID era. Implications to tour operators and tourism marketers are discussed.
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