Dark Touristic Perception: Motivation, Experience and Benefits Interpreted from the Visit to Seismic Memorial Sites in Sichuan Province

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	Dark Touristic Perception: Motivation, Experience and Benefits Interpreted from the Visit to Seismic Memorial Sites in Sichuan Province
	TANG Yong
刊名	Journal of Mountain Science
	2014-09
卷号	11 期号:5 页码:1326-1341
关键词	Dark Tourism Travel Motivation Tourist Perception Chinese Domestic Tourists Seismic Memorial sites Wenchuan earthquake
通讯作者	TANG Yong
英文摘要	This study investigates the motivations of Chinese domestic tourists visiting seismic memorial sites after the great Wenchuan earthquake of 2008, and examines their interpretation of experiences and benefits of the visits. Recent research on dark tourism has raised the possibility that people are attracted to death and memorial sites in ways different from other tourist attractions. The study used an empirical research design employing questionnaires to collect data from 255 Chinese domestic visitors at seismic memorial sites in west Sichuan. Analysis revealed that the obligation of commemoration mixed with curiosity represents a different set of travel motivation in dark tourism settings than in other kinds of tourism. In addition, the empirical evidence also suggests an interrelated pattern between motivations, experiences and benefits. This study implies that Chinese domestic tourists were attracted in ways different from other tourist attractions both because they tended to fulfill their obligation of commemoration and were interested in destruction; and visitor experiences played an important mediating role between travel motivations and benefits gained.
收录类别	SCI
公开日期	2014-09-17
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://ir.imde.ac.cn/handle/131551/7258]
专题	成都山地灾害与环境研究所_Journal of Mountain Science _Journal of Mountain Science-2014_Vol11 No.5
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	TANG Yong. Dark Touristic Perception: Motivation, Experience and Benefits Interpreted from the Visit to Seismic Memorial Sites in Sichuan Province[J]. Journal of Mountain Science,2014,11(5):1326-1341.
APA	TANG Yong.(2014).Dark Touristic Perception: Motivation, Experience and Benefits Interpreted from the Visit to Seismic Memorial Sites in Sichuan Province.Journal of Mountain Science,11(5),1326-1341.
MLA	TANG Yong."Dark Touristic Perception: Motivation, Experience and Benefits Interpreted from the Visit to Seismic Memorial Sites in Sichuan Province".Journal of Mountain Science 11.5(2014):1326-1341.