The Practice Characteristics of Authorized Heritage Discourse in Tourism: Thematic and Spatial

Yang Jin, Bing Hou and Xiang Kong ()
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Yang Jin: The Center for Modern Chinese City Studies, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China
Bing Hou: School of Tourism and Cuisine, Yangzhou University, Yangzhou 225127, China
Xiang Kong: The Center for Modern Chinese City Studies, East China Normal University, Shanghai 200062, China

Land, 2024, vol. 13, issue 6, 1-20

Abstract: Under the influence of tourism and globalization, heritage production presents a new landscape. As a crucial framework for interpreting heritage, Authorized Heritage Discourse (AHD) has profound significance in discussing its practice characteristics in this context. Taking cities along the Jiangsu–Zhejiang section of the Grand Canal as a case study and drawing upon policy text, this study explores the practice characteristics of AHD in the tourism context. Results indicate that the thematic practices of AHD encompass protection and management, ecological construction, cultural production and inheritance, touristification, infrastructure and services, and marketing and cooperation, forming a clustering pattern with touristification as the central theme. The spatial characteristics manifest as multi-scale practices ranging from global to regional to local, each corresponding to diverse thematic characteristics. This study deepens the understanding of AHD in tourism and advances the research progress of heritage tourism. It also provides practical references for the utilization of urban heritage and the management of heritage tourism.

Keywords: heritage tourism; Authorized Heritage Discourse; policy text; practice characteristics; thematic and spatial; the Grand Canal (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: Q15 Q2 Q24 Q28 Q5 R14 R52 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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