Shuying Zhang, Jia-ming Liu, Tao Pei, Chung-Shing Chan, C. Gao, Bin Meng
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Abstract
ABSTRACT Based on two on-site questionnaire surveys in the Beijing-Hangzhou Grand Canal, this study identifies the constructs of tourists’ perception by exploratory factor analysis, and proposes a relationship model. Then the complex relationships are explored by structural equation modelling. The results suggest heritage attraction and cultural experience positively affect tourists’ attitude towards heritage protection, while cultural experience, service facilities and market conditions positively affect tourists’ preference of tourism development. More importantly, tourists’ attitude towards heritage protection positively affects preference of tourism development, and they affect satisfaction positively. This study offers suggestions for rationally optimizing management and promoting cultural heritage tourism development.
期刊介绍:
Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change ( JTCC ) is a peer-reviewed, transdisciplinary and transnational journal. It focuses on critically examining the relationships, tensions, representations, conflicts and possibilities that exist between tourism/travel and culture/cultures in an increasingly complex global context. JTCC provides a forum for debate against the backdrop of local, regional, national and transnational understandings of identity and difference. Economic restructuring, recognitions of the cultural dimension of biodiversity and sustainable development, contests regarding the positive and negative impact of patterns of tourist behaviour on cultural diversity, and transcultural strivings - all provide an important focus for JTCC . Global capitalism, in its myriad forms engages with multiple ''ways of being'', generating new relationships, re-evaluating existing, and challenging ways of knowing and being. Tourists and the tourism industry continue to find inventive ways to commodify, transform, present/re-present and consume material culture. JTCC seeks to widen and deepen understandings of such changing relationships and stimulate critical debate by: -Adopting a multidisciplinary approach -Encouraging deep and critical approaches to policy and practice -Embracing an inclusive definition of culture -Focusing on the concept, processes and meanings of change -Encouraging trans-national/transcultural perspectives