Conceptualising audience immersion in tourism performing arts: Definition and characteristics

IF 10.4 1区管理学 Q1 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Annals of Tourism Research Pub Date : 2025-04-10 DOI:10.1016/j.annals.2025.103956

Minyan Feng , Yueying Hazel Xu

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Abstract

Immersion has recently become a buzzword in tourism literature; however, its application is often casual and context-blind, without an adequate delineation of what immersion truly entails. This study, focusing on tourism performing arts, establishes a precise and comprehensive conceptualisation of audience immersion to reflect tourists' distinctive experiences accurately. A two-stage qualitative method is employed, incorporating data from online comments and focus group discussions. Analysis via an inductive–deductive approach reveals six key characteristics of immersion, leading to a new and context-specific definition. An experiential model depicting three levels of immersion is established according to the human information processing framework. This study introduces a dual-component method to conceptualise immersion and provides practical insights for better understanding immersive experiences in a specific context.

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来源期刊

Annals of Tourism Research Multiple-

CiteScore

19.10

自引率

9.10%

发文量

135

审稿时长

42 days

期刊介绍： 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.