Intangible cultural heritage listing and tourism growth in China

IF 2.2 4区管理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change Pub Date : 2022-05-01 DOI:10.1080/14766825.2022.2068373

N. Tan, S. Anwar, Wanxing Jiang

引用次数: 8

Abstract

ABSTRACT Using city-level data over the 2000–2018 period, we examine the impact of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) listing on international tourism (i.e. international tourist arrivals and income from international tourism) in China. China uses two parallel ICH classifications: ICH projects and ICH inheritors. Empirical evaluation based on difference-in-difference (DID) methodology shows that both ICH projects and ICH inheritors listing used in China have a positive and statistically significant effect on international tourism. Trend analysis shows that ICH listing contributes to a long-term positive trend in international tourism in China. Finally, based on the positive relationship between ICH listing and the probability of being designated as an excellent tourism city (and its positive effect on international tourism), we argue that city-level cultural brand development is a plausible mechanism behind the positive effect of ICH listing on international tourism in China.

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非物质文化遗产名录与中国旅游业的发展

摘要利用2000-2008年期间的市级数据，我们考察了非物质文化遗产（ICH）名录对中国国际旅游（即国际游客人数和国际旅游收入）的影响。中国使用两种平行的非物质文化遗产分类：非物质文化项目和非物质文化传承人。基于DID方法的实证评价表明，中国使用的非物质文化遗产项目和非物质文化遗址传承人名录对国际旅游都有积极且统计显著的影响。趋势分析表明，非物质文化遗产名录有助于中国国际旅游业的长期积极发展。最后，基于非物质文化遗产名录与被指定为优秀旅游城市的概率（及其对国际旅游的积极影响）之间的正相关关系，我们认为城市层面的文化品牌发展是非物质文化遗址名录对中国国际旅游产生积极影响的一个合理机制。

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Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

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5.10

自引率

9.10%

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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