Abstract
This article reviews the development of motivational theories underpinning the study of tourism and discusses the limitations of such an approach. The actor-network theory is used to show how beliefs, politics, laws, government agencies, and pressure groups in China interact to create outbound tourism as a new way of ordering. The analysis highlights how a hitherto nontraveling culture suddenly becomes a traveling culture and how outbound tourism has been accommodated, justified, institutionalized, and allowed to flourish in China. Tourism is analyzed as a social phenomenon concerning a complex interaction of heterogeneous objects in the formation of a dynamic network and ordering of human and non-human objects.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 490-505 |
| Number of pages | 16 |
| Journal | Journal of China Tourism Research |
| Volume | 7 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Jan 2011 |
Keywords
- China
- Motivation
- ordering
- outbound tourism
- politics
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Cultural Studies
- Language and Linguistics
- Linguistics and Language
- Tourism, Leisure and Hospitality Management