FACTORS AND STRUCTURE ANALYSIS OF PLACE ATTACHMENT BASED ON VEP METHOD——A Case Study of Baiyun Mountain
HUANG Xiang1,2, WEN Xiao-shan3
1. Institute of Finance and Trade Economics, Chinese Academy of Social Science, Beijing 100836, China;
2. Shenzhen Tourism College, Jinan University, Shenzhen 518053, China;
3. Management School, Jinan University, Guangzhou 510275, China
Abstract：Place attachment has been proved as one of the key factors to revisit tourism destination. This paper seeks to find a way to explain the structure of place attachment. Place as a tourism destination is a physical concept for visitor to develop cognition through leisure activities. This paper is aimed to find out how place attachment is organized. Visitors Employed Picture (VEP) method is used to collect 92 pictures from 40 samples who have already been in Mt. Baiyun over 10 times. Researcher followed these samples to finish their visit in Mt. Baiyun, asked them to take pictures where means something to them and asked them explain why this particular place has meaning to them. The result shows that functional attachment and emotional attachment can be divided vertically, and environment-landscape dimension, leisure dimension, human-social dimension, facility-service dimension can be differentiated horizontally, based on which a qualitative model was established. Environment-landscape dimension is focus on the perception related to environment and landscape, in which 5 sub-dimensions are identified, which are aesthetic appreciation, nature-landscape characteristic mark appreciation, respect for nature, environment-protection awareness, culture aesthetic appreciation. In terms of leisure dimension, which is focus on leisure perception, there are 4 sub-dimensions, which are leisure-relax perception, ability-interest cultivation, onlooker perception, leisure convenient perception. Finally, in facility-service dimension, facility-using perception, service perception, symbolic-facility perception are identified as sub-dimensions.
黄向, 温晓珊. 基于VEP方法的旅游地地方依恋要素维度分析——以白云山为例[J]. 人文地理, 2012, 27(6): 103-109.
HUANG Xiang, WEN Xiao-shan. FACTORS AND STRUCTURE ANALYSIS OF PLACE ATTACHMENT BASED ON VEP METHOD——A Case Study of Baiyun Mountain. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2012, 27(6): 103-109.
