Seasonal Lifestyle Tourism: The Case of Chinese Elites
Salazar, N. B., & Zhang, Y. (2013). Seasonal Lifestyle Tourism: The Case of Chinese Elites. Annals of Tourism Research, 43(4), 81-99.
18 Pages Posted: 18 May 2013
Date Written: May 17, 2013
Abstract
This article analyzes Chinese seasonal tourists, whose cultural practices originate from and provide new meaning to traditional Chinese elite culture. We place contemporary seasonal lifestyle tourism in China in its broader socio-historical context and describe how recent political changes have reshaped the place and significance of these practices within Chinese culture at large. Grounded in an anthropological approach, we draw on an exploratory qualitative study of seasonal tourists in Lijiang,Yunnan Province, to illustrate the multiple issues at hand. Our ethnographic fieldwork findings reveal surprising similarities, as well as expected differences between Chinese seasonal lifestyle tourism and comparable practices described in the scholarly literature elsewhere.
Keywords: seasonal lifestyle tourism, culture, imaginary, anthropology, ethnography, China
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