Li Fangxuan Sam, Wang Bingyu
Tourism College of Hainan University, Hainan University, Hainan, China.
School of Sociology and Anthropology, Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou, China.
Tour Manag Perspect. 2020 Oct;36:100743. doi: 10.1016/j.tmp.2020.100743. Epub 2020 Sep 11.
Drawing on 34 interviews with Chinese visitors to North Korea, this paper adopts the social contact theory to examine their attitude change tourism. The paper first examines how Chinese tourists imagine North Korea as a tourism destination prior to their visits. Then the paper focuses on both the and dimensions involved in their travel, asking how individual Chinese tourist with the externally imposed restrictions to obtain more tourist-host contact. Third, it identifies both positive and negative post-trip attitude changes. In doing so, the paper creates a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of tourism conducted between China and North Korea which are perceived as "friendly" neighbors with conflicts. Apart from offering empirical and policy implications, this paper extends the use of intergroup social contact theory by focusing on a destination with restrictions on tourist-host contact.
基于对34名前往朝鲜的中国游客的访谈，本文采用社会接触理论来考察他们在旅游过程中的态度变化。本文首先考察中国游客在访问朝鲜之前是如何将其想象为一个旅游目的地的。然后，本文关注他们旅行中涉及的两个维度，即中国游客如何应对外部施加的限制以获得更多游客与接待地的接触。第三，它识别出旅行后态度变化的积极和消极方面。通过这样做，本文对被视为有冲突的“友好”邻邦中国和朝鲜之间的旅游有了更深入、更全面的理解。除了提供实证和政策启示外，本文还通过关注一个对游客与接待地接触有限制的目的地，扩展了群体间社会接触理论的应用。
