The identity construction of Chinese anime pilgrims

Shang Liu, Dan Lai and Zhiyong Li

Annals of Tourism Research, 2022, vol. 93, issue C

Abstract: Anime pilgrimage is a form of tourism induced by a popular culture, the anime culture. To better understand contemporary cultural consumption, this exploratory research studies the tourist identity construction of Chinese anime pilgrims and the role played by cultural context in it. Following an interpretive methodology, this paper illustrates the process of an individual to construct the identity as an anime pilgrim. This research distinguishes four different identity levels of anime pilgrims, including a unique fantasized identity as the anime me. The findings also proposed an identity model showing that the identity construction of Chinese anime pilgrims goes through the processes of compliance, identification, internalization and individualization.

Keywords: Tourist identity; Identity construction; Anime tourism; Anime pilgrimage; Contemporary cultural consumption (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
References: View references in EconPapers View complete reference list from CitEc
Citations:

Downloads: (external link)
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S016073832200024X
Full text for ScienceDirect subscribers only

Related works:
This item may be available elsewhere in EconPapers: Search for items with the same title.

Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text

Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:eee:anture:v:93:y:2022:i:c:s016073832200024x

DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2022.103373

Access Statistics for this article

Annals of Tourism Research is currently edited by John Tribe

More articles in Annals of Tourism Research from Elsevier
Bibliographic data for series maintained by Catherine Liu ().