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Dark Tourism, Emotions, and Postexperience Visitor Effects in a Sensitive Geopolitical Context: A Chinese Case Study
- Source :
- Journal of Travel Research. 57:824-838
- Publication Year :
- 2017
- Publisher :
- SAGE Publications, 2017.
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Abstract
- Engaging the neglected intersection between dark tourism, the visitor postexperience and geopolitics, this research reports the findings from a survey of 1,082 domestic visitors to Lushun Prison Museum in Dalian, China, a Japanese-era incarceration and punishment site that projects hegemonic anti-Japanese social representations. Most respondents reported strong emotional reactions and elevated patriotism along with worsened attitudes toward Japan, Japanese products and, to a lesser degree, Japanese people, suggesting negative implications for the increasingly tense China–Japan bilateral relationship. However, sample diversity is indicated by the revelation of small Japan-neutral clusters whose members are more likely to express contemplation and pity as dominant emotions rather than the anger and hate of the majority, and who qualify the dominant social representations accordingly. Communist Party membership, age, lack of student affiliation, and not having Japanese friends or knowing any Japanese people were all associated with Japan-negative perceptions and intentions.
- Subjects :
- Dark tourism
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05 social sciences
Geography, Planning and Development
Pity
Transportation
Context (language use)
Prison
Anger
Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management
0502 economics and business
Patriotism
050211 marketing
Psychology
Social psychology
050212 sport, leisure & tourism
Tourism
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Diversity (politics)
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 15526763 and 00472875
- Volume :
- 57
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Journal of Travel Research
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi...........304f55fc64f3a4bbaf5de57f5905b950