{"title":"Sensory therapeutic assemblages in tourism: Qi and the health of snowbirds in China","authors":"Ke Wang , Qingming Cui , Honggang Xu","doi":"10.1016/j.annals.2024.103727","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Individuals can cultivate novel sensory connections with places through tourism mobility, thereby obtaining health benefits. However, there is limited research on how the senses interact with other socio-material elements to enhance tourists' health. This study draws on assemblage theory to examine the health of snowbirds (<em>Houniao</em>) who regularly travel to Sanya city from north China in winter. The findings reveal that <em>Qi</em> is a vital component that associate senses (vision, touch and smell), destination elements (air, climate, landscape, people), body organs, and emotions to constitute sensory therapeutic assemblages to heal and restore snowbird tourists. This study demonstrates the dynamics, relationality and materiality of obtaining health through tourism. Tourism practitioners are suggested to adopt a relational approach to developing health tourism destinations.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":48452,"journal":{"name":"Annals of Tourism Research","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":10.4000,"publicationDate":"2024-01-26","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Annals of Tourism Research","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0160738324000045","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Individuals can cultivate novel sensory connections with places through tourism mobility, thereby obtaining health benefits. However, there is limited research on how the senses interact with other socio-material elements to enhance tourists' health. This study draws on assemblage theory to examine the health of snowbirds (Houniao) who regularly travel to Sanya city from north China in winter. The findings reveal that Qi is a vital component that associate senses (vision, touch and smell), destination elements (air, climate, landscape, people), body organs, and emotions to constitute sensory therapeutic assemblages to heal and restore snowbird tourists. This study demonstrates the dynamics, relationality and materiality of obtaining health through tourism. Tourism practitioners are suggested to adopt a relational approach to developing health tourism destinations.
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The Annals of Tourism Research is a scholarly journal that focuses on academic perspectives related to tourism. The journal defines tourism as a global economic activity that involves travel behavior, management and marketing activities of service industries catering to consumer demand, the effects of tourism on communities, and policy and governance at local, national, and international levels. While the journal aims to strike a balance between theory and application, its primary focus is on developing theoretical constructs that bridge the gap between business and the social and behavioral sciences. The disciplinary areas covered in the journal include, but are not limited to, service industries management, marketing science, consumer marketing, decision-making and behavior, business ethics, economics and forecasting, environment, geography and development, education and knowledge development, political science and administration, consumer-focused psychology, and anthropology and sociology.
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