Conspicuous souvenirs: Analysing touristic self-presentation through souvenir display

IF 3.3 4区管理学 Q2 HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM

Tourist Studies Pub Date : 2020-09-28 DOI:10.1177/1468797620956935

Friedericke Kuhn

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Abstract

Holiday travel offers the opportunity for self-definition and enhancement of social prestige. Due to the growing importance of self-expressive values within the ongoing course of individualisation, tourists increasingly make use of their travel experience to self-present in a positive way. Yet, tourism studies have not investigated what tourists actually want to communicate about themselves when representing their travel experience through the display of souvenirs. Using semi-structured qualitative interviews, this study examines touristic self-expression and exposes the self-concepts attached to and communicated through the display of souvenirs as material symbols of travel experience. Results show that tourists often have a clear intention to express positive self-messages when showing their souvenirs to others. Souvenirs are used to represent personal character traits, social affiliation to in-groups and neo-tribes, and to demonstrate individual travel history. This article adds to the discussion of individual ascription of meaning to the tourist experience and souvenirs, and gives an insight to the function of souvenirs for self-expression and social exchange.

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醒目纪念品：通过纪念品展示分析旅游自我展示

假日旅行提供了自我定义和提高社会威望的机会。由于自我表达价值在正在进行的个性化过程中越来越重要，游客越来越多地利用他们的旅行经历以积极的方式自我呈现。然而，旅游研究并没有调查游客在通过展示纪念品来展示他们的旅行经历时，真正想要传达的是关于他们自己的什么。本研究采用半结构化的质性访谈，检视游客的自我表达，揭示旅游纪念品作为旅游体验的物质象征，其展示所附带及传达的自我概念。结果表明，游客在向他人展示自己的纪念品时，往往有明确的表达积极自我信息的意图。纪念品被用来代表个人的性格特征，与团体和新部落的社会关系，以及展示个人的旅行历史。本文在对旅游体验和纪念品的个体意义归属讨论的基础上，对纪念品的自我表达和社会交换功能进行了深入的认识。

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Tourist Studies HOSPITALITY, LEISURE, SPORT & TOURISM-

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6.90

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4.20%

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期刊介绍： Tourist Studies is a multi-disciplinary journal providing a platform for the development of critical perspectives on the nature of tourism as a social phenomenon through a qualitative lens. Theoretical and multi-disciplinary. Tourist Studies provides a critical social science approach to the study of the tourist and the structures which influence tourist behaviour and the production and reproduction of tourism. The journal examines the relationship between tourism and related fields of social inquiry. Tourism and tourist styles consumption are not only emblematic of many features of contemporary social change, such as mobility, restlessness, the search for authenticity and escape, but they are increasingly central to economic restructuring, globalization, the sociology of consumption and the aestheticization of everyday life. Tourist Studies analyzes these features of tourism from a multi-disciplinary perspective and seeks to evaluate, compare and integrate approaches to tourism from sociology, socio-psychology, leisure studies, cultural studies, geography and anthropology. Global Perspective. Tourist Studies takes a global perspective of tourism, widening and challenging the established views of tourism presented in current periodical literature. Tourist Studies includes: Theoretical analysis with a firm grounding in contemporary problems and issues in tourism studies, qualitative analyses of tourism and the tourist experience, reviews linking theory and policy, interviews with scholars at the forefront of their fields, review essays on particular fields or issues in the study of tourism, review of key texts, publications and visual media relating to tourism studies, and notes on conferences and other events of topical interest to the field of tourism studies.