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For the rural idyll: Tourism, place promotion and rural consumption
Received date: 2023-10-16
Revised date: 2024-02-27
Online published: 2024-08-16
Place promotion plays an important role in enhancing the attractiveness and competitiveness of a place. The existing studies, however, have focused on the field of urban areas and small towns, and relatively little attention has been paid to the rural areas, especially in promoting the rural nature rather than the historical and cultural heritage. In addition, limited scholarship has investigated the evaluation of place promotion, increasingly making a call to examine the circuit of production and consumption of place image in the actions of place promotion. Taking Xixinan village in Huangshan city, China as a case study, this paper thus comprehensively uses qualitative methods to analyze the construction and communication of place image in such a rural tourism destination, as well as tourists' perception, consumption and feedback of the projected place image. It is found that the local government, centered on the natural landscape of the maple poplar forest, takes advantage of the local ecological environment to construct the image of the 'Wizard of Oz' and actively promote it, marketing it as a romantic place myth. Essentially, the place image of 'The Wizard of Oz' is a version of rural idyll, in which such seductive place promotion caters to people's escape from urban modernity, as well as nostalgia for the countryside. Through the analysis of embodied consumption, it is further found that tourists' consumption behavior and feelings are in line with the setting of rural idyll constructed by the local government, and they show corresponding nuanced characteristics in physical sense, cognition and emotion. Meanwhile, it is also argued that it is not limited to the scope of the previous discourse of place promotion. Tourists' embodied experience reveals their positivity and agency, making sense in the construction of their subjective meaning and the consumption of place. Under the premise of successful place promotion, tourists' rural consumption behavior is able to be fed back to the next round of tourism production, further shaping the rurality of the 'Wizard of Oz' in Xixinan village. By doing so, the consumption of tourists reinforces the representation of the previously established tourist landscape discourse. This paper contributes to the academic debate of 'clarifying the conceptual confusion between place promotion and place marketing and advancing relevant empirical research'. Further, it advances the empirical research agenda of 'circuits of tourism' proposed by Irena Ateljevic by placing the geographical process of this framework in a rural context, and discussing the production and consumption of tourism on the rurality. In practice, this paper provides planning guidance for rural tourism marketing and tourism experience creation.
Key words: place promotion; rurality; rural idyll; place image; consumption; embodiment; circuits of tourism
CHEN Pin-yu , ZHAO Yi-zheng , TAO Ru-yu , KONG Xiang . For the rural idyll: Tourism, place promotion and rural consumption[J]. JOURNAL OF NATURAL RESOURCES, 2024 , 39(8) : 1956 -1973 . DOI: 10.31497/zrzyxb.20240813
表1 游客在西溪南村的消费感受Table 1 Tourists' consumption experience in Xixinan village |
情感类型 | 情感类别 | 自由节点 | 频率/次 | 占比/% |
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积极 | 惊奇的 | 给人惊喜的 | 5 | 10.6 |
惊叹的 | 1 | 2.1 | ||
放松的 | 好玩的 | 4 | 8.5 | |
安静的 | 4 | 8.5 | ||
愉悦的 | 满意的 | 16 | 34.1 | |
喜爱的 | 10 | 21.3 | ||
中性 | 平静的 | 平常心打卡 | 7 | 14.9 |
消极 | 困倦的 | 无聊的 | 0 | 0 |
不快的 | 讨厌的 |
注:根据马蜂窝(www.mafengwo.cn)游记文本整理。 |
表2 游客在西溪南村的消费活动Table 2 Tourists' consumption activities in Xixinan village |
乡村消费方式 | 乡村活动 |
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凝视(视觉) | 观光;摄影;闲坐凝望 |
触摸(触觉) | 购物;触摸徽派建筑和枫杨林;在湿地和古村水系亲水 |
品尝(味觉) | 品茶、野果泡酒;吃徽菜;尝西溪南村土特产 |
声景(听觉) | 倾听溪流、蜂鸣、鸟叫、鸡啼等乡村声音景观;乡村音乐;在宁静中冥思 |
味景(嗅觉) | 呼吸枫杨林负离子、清新的空气;嗅到花香、稻香和乡土气息 |
注:根据实地调研整理。 |
表3 西溪南村举办的徽州市集活动Table 3 The Huizhou-style rural fair held in Xixinan village |
市集类型 | 展销内容 |
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非遗民俗 | 非遗产品、民俗产品、基于传统开发的文创产品 |
原创手作 | 原创的陶瓷、玻璃、皮质、纸质、木制等有创意的手作 |
游玩体验 | 射艺、摄影、DIY等体验项目 |
农特产品 | 茶叶、蜂蜜、鲜花、果蔬等 |
特色美食 | 米酒、徽州特色美食、烧烤等 |
特殊类别 | 摊主发起的品牌特展、交流活动、文艺表演、游行等 |
文化活动 | 扎草龙和舞草龙、放河灯、鱼灯等;民谣、古琴等表演;艺术展览;汉服秀;青年文化活动论坛 |
注:根据官方提供的资料整理。 |
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