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Cultural encountering as a facilitator for slow tourism experiences: a case in an Amish attraction

In: Handbook of Experience Science

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  • Ting-Yen Huang
  • Ruiping Ren
  • Joseph S. Chen

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Partaking in a cultural journey often plays a pivotal role in enhancing the tourist experience at destinations. The concept of slowness in tourism portrays a unique tourists’ temptation to slow down their activity tempo while relishing a cultural journey. This chapter intends to further the extant literature by deploying a qualitative study probing the tourists’ slowness experiences at an Amish destination in the USA. Eight in-depth interviews were gathered at an Amish complex, where tourists can taste local foods and go through various cultural-bonding activities and events. From the participants’ perspectives of their encountering experiences at the study site, this chapter recapitulates the slowness sensing as five experience domains, entailing (1) relaxation, (2) authenticity, (3) sustainability, (4) intimacy, and (5) spirituality.

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  • Ting-Yen Huang & Ruiping Ren & Joseph S. Chen, 2024. "Cultural encountering as a facilitator for slow tourism experiences: a case in an Amish attraction," Chapters, in: Joseph S. Chen & Nina K. Prebensen & Muzaffer S. Uysal (ed.), Handbook of Experience Science, chapter 11, pages 146-159, Edward Elgar Publishing.
    • Handle: RePEc:elg:eechap:21746_11
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