Reconceptualising home in seasonal Chinese tourism mobilities

Yue-Fang Wu, Kevin Hannam and Hong-Gang Xu

Annals of Tourism Research, 2018, vol. 73, issue C, 71-80

Abstract: This article has sought to contribute to the study of home in tourism studies by conceptualising how Chinese seasonal tourists to Sanya make sense of their own practices of home in doing health-related tourism mobilities. Qualitative research was conducted with 43 retired ‘snowbirds’ over three years in Sanya. It is found that the interplay of both mobile and located homes and identities has destabilized the singularity in understandings of home. This paper suggests examining home in Chinese tourism mobilities as a juxtaposition of three related dimensions – the physical, the social and the personal. The interactions between the multiple affordances of home are fostered through continual corporeal, material and imaginative mobilities, through which a sense of belonging is sustained.

Keywords: Tourism mobilities; Home; Retirement; Reconceptualisation; Sanya (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2018.09.005

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