Research Progress, Theories Review and Trend Forecast on Placeness of Tourism Destination

Abstract

This paper systematically summarizes the related research achievements about concept connotation, theoretical framework, research progress and research contents of Tourism Destination. Based on characteristic analysis of these published articles, it gives prediction and suggestion on the future research trends in this area. It shows that placeness is the uniqueness of the specific place. Such uniqueness includes not only the characteristics of the place, but also the affections and meanings that people give to the place. As for the interaction between place and tourism, the research focus should gradually shift from the analysis on the importance of placeness to tourism to the impact of tourism activity to placeness. It has become a necessary stage that goes through placeness, then mobility, at last placelessness. Collision between tourism destinations and external factors is also constantly generating new localities, but this process is relatively slow. In the future research on reconstructing palaceness of tourism destination, more case studies on specific types of tourism destinations is expected. Moreover, it will be new perspective that exploring connotation, influence, trend and reconstruction of palaceness of tourism destination based on human-earth interaction, host-guest interaction. Keywords—Placeness; Mobility; Placelessness; Theories Review; Trend Forecast