{"title":"Staged authenticity and nostalgia of mining tourists in the Jiayang mining Geo-park of China","authors":"Yong Tang, Yuechen Liang","doi":"10.1080/14766825.2022.2090259","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In recent years many mining historical heritage sites with geological, mining, and esthetic curiosities alike have been transformed into tourist attractions. This study investigates the staged authenticity and types of nostalgia either as experiences or as motivators to influence revisit intention in the context of the Jiayang Mining Geopark in China, an exemplified transnational industrial heritage from European countries. Survey data collected from 280 Chinese mining tourists revealed that the transnational feature of the mining town, such as the Soviet and British architectures, either staged or portrayed, can be highly pursued by mining tourists. Types of nostalgic responses were identified, especially the historical one, regardless of their social and historical connection to the site. The staged authentic experiences and personal nostalgia possessed qualities of travel motivation but were somewhat limited in their motive potentials for revisit intention. The results acknowledge that the staged mining historical heritage in China plays multiple and self-reflexive roles to enrich authentic and nostalgic values throughout the trip, which can help evaluate marketing strategies from the tourist gaze.","PeriodicalId":46712,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":2.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-06-22","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change","FirstCategoryId":"91","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14766825.2022.2090259","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"管理学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT In recent years many mining historical heritage sites with geological, mining, and esthetic curiosities alike have been transformed into tourist attractions. This study investigates the staged authenticity and types of nostalgia either as experiences or as motivators to influence revisit intention in the context of the Jiayang Mining Geopark in China, an exemplified transnational industrial heritage from European countries. Survey data collected from 280 Chinese mining tourists revealed that the transnational feature of the mining town, such as the Soviet and British architectures, either staged or portrayed, can be highly pursued by mining tourists. Types of nostalgic responses were identified, especially the historical one, regardless of their social and historical connection to the site. The staged authentic experiences and personal nostalgia possessed qualities of travel motivation but were somewhat limited in their motive potentials for revisit intention. The results acknowledge that the staged mining historical heritage in China plays multiple and self-reflexive roles to enrich authentic and nostalgic values throughout the trip, which can help evaluate marketing strategies from the tourist gaze.
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