دانلود رایگان مقاله توضیح پدیده شناسی گوانشی در مدیریت گردشگری روستایی: چین

abstract

Drawing on hermeneutic phenomenology in tourism studies as well as Heidegger's concept of being-inthe-world, this paper reveals how tourism can and should be done in a Chinese rural village. This research contributes a contextual interpretation of guanxi in Chinese rural tourism development through an empirical study of a traditional agricultural village in China that has been transformed through tourism development. The paper argues that for the Chinese indigenous residents who are the primary actors engaged in tourism, guanxi is, neither a Confucian political ideal nor an instrumental tool, but the specific manner in which they dwell in their place. It demonstrates how the tourist destination, landscape and managerial regulation have been modified and adapted in a guanxi way. The paper suggests that an emic understanding of guanxi and the roles it plays in tourism participants' daily life is warranted and can provide a more holistic picture of tourism development in rural China.

6. Conclusion

6.1. Theoretical values

RT development in China has been affected by intricate factors. An ethnography of tourist villages like Huangling contributes to a more contextually rich and theoretically sophisticated understanding of these places where the local way of living and experiencing the world is both the shaper of and, in turn, shaped by tourism development.

In particular, this study, drawing on “indigenous knowledge,” has advanced the current research of “Non-Western forms of tourism” (Tribe & Liburd, 2016, p. 52). Although Guanxi is a centrally important indigenous concept and one whose study has already been “legitimized by the more established forms of knowledge production” (Tribe & Liburd, 2016), e.g., guanxi in sociology, political science, business research, etc, it is also a concept that is undervalued and underexplored in the current tourism literature. As this study has shown, the concept of guanxi embraces the context-related form of knowledge that comes from people's living with each other and within their environment. In light of this, the current paper's contextualized study of tourism in China, if more specifically in rural China, is crucial to the effort to construct a true and holistic representation of the phenomenon. Moreover, this study is the first to attempt to provide an overview of the two main competing understandings of guanxi in extant tourism research: both ideal and instrumental guanxi.