Abstract
This study draws heavily on Heidegger’s post turn thinking of dwelling to provide a philosophically informed approach to comprehend host perceptions of tourism. The philosophical premise of dwelling, including (to) poetically dwell and the fourfold, existentially conceptualizes the host community and destination site as a oneness where host perceptions are formed and tourism-created consequences occur. A hermeneutic-phenomenological investigation of a village-based tourism initiative in China demonstrates that guanxi as the manner of dwelling fundamentally frames how a local destination community perceives tourism; in turn, the ongoing tourism development has profoundly influenced the hosts’ existential condition (i.e., the fourfold), leading them to unpoetically dwell.
Original language | English |
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Article number | 102828 |
Number of pages | 12 |
Journal | Annals of Tourism Research |
Volume | 80 |
Early online date | 12 Nov 2019 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - Jan 2020 |
Keywords
- host perception
- the fourfold
- poetically dwell
- Guanxi
- hermeneutic phenomenology
- rural tourism
- The fourfold
- Host perception
- Hermeneutic phenomenology
- Rural tourism
- Poetically dwell