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Revisiting cultural approaches to Chinese tourists

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Scholarship on Chinese tourists has stressed the influence of collectivism, Confucianism, and other traditional values. While significant, these approaches assume a singular, holistic view of culture that is at odds with recent approaches in the sociology of culture that stress the domain-specific, situational, and flexible nature of cultural scripts. Using fresh empirical evidence of Chinese tourists to non-mainstream destinations, this article demonstrates that tourism frequently disembeds tourists from traditional sources of cultural authority. I suggest viewing culture in tourism as a contextual set of repertoires used to (1) draw symbolic boundaries, (2) perform situational, diverse scripts, and (3) self-reflect on personal and collective identities. These results counter the idea that Chinese tourists have internalised one master set of cultural responses.

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  • Fayard, Gregory, 2024. "Revisiting cultural approaches to Chinese tourists," Annals of Tourism Research, Elsevier, vol. 108(C).
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:anture:v:108:y:2024:i:c:s016073832400080x
    DOI: 10.1016/j.annals.2024.103803
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