Existentially understanding tourism in locale: A dwelling perspective

Xiaoqing Chen, Carol Xiaoyue Zhang, Timothy Stone and John Lamb

Annals of Tourism Research, 2020, vol. 80, issue C

Abstract: This study draws heavily on Heidegger's post turn thinking of dwelling to provide a philosophically informed approach to comprehend host perceptions of tourism. The philosophical premise of dwelling, including (to) poetically dwell and the fourfold, existentially conceptualizes the host community and destination site as a oneness where host perceptions are formed and tourism-created consequences occur. A hermeneutic-phenomenological investigation of a village-based tourism initiative in China demonstrates that guanxi as the manner of dwelling fundamentally frames how a local destination community perceives tourism; in turn, the ongoing tourism development has profoundly influenced the hosts' existential condition (i.e., the fourfold), leading them to unpoetically dwell.

Keywords: Host perception; The fourfold; Poetically dwell; Guanxi; Hermeneutic phenomenology; Rural tourism (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2019.102828

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