SPATIAL PRACTICE AND MEANING CONSTRUCTION OF "HOME" IN TOURISM CONTEXT: THE CASE OF GLAMPING

LIN Jia-hui, LIU Hai-yan, ZENG Guo-jun

HUMAN GEOGRAPHY ›› 2026, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (2) : 111-119.

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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY ›› 2026, Vol. 41 ›› Issue (2) : 111-119. DOI: 10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2026.02.012
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SPATIAL PRACTICE AND MEANING CONSTRUCTION OF "HOME" IN TOURISM CONTEXT: THE CASE OF GLAMPING

  • LIN Jia-hui, LIU Hai-yan, ZENG Guo-jun
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As a key concept of human geography, the connotation of "home" is undergoing deconstruction and reconstruction in the context of tourism, but this has not attracted sufficient attention from the researchers. The home space built by people in glamping becomes the representative of the home in the tourist context. It integrates home elements into the space practice, representing the extension and reconstruction of home, and is the redefinition of home in modern tourism. Based on the above background, the following research questions are proposed for this study. In the context of tourism, how do people carry out home space practice? And how to construct the meaning of home? How is home in the context of tourism related to home in everyday life? To answer these questions, this paper takes glamping as a case study to explore how people carry out the spatial practice and construction of the meaning of home in a tourism context, to understand the evolution of the connotation of home in the context of tourism. The study found that: 1) The spatial practice of home in the tourism context includes the extension of physical boundary to nature, the artistic transformation of home aesthetics, and the integration practice of family activities. This process reflects the tourists' reflection on the original home and the pursuit of the ideal home. 2) The meaning of construction of home in the tourism context is manifested in the three dimensions of home, family, and homeland, forming a meaningful structure of poetic dwelling, emotional belonging, and spiritual sublimation, which further strengthens the tourists' imagination of the ideal home. 3) The home in the tourism context is the extension and reconstruction of the home in daily life, and the temporary appearance of the ideal home; At the same time, the home in daily life will also be affected by the home in the tourism context, and it will be continuously repaired in the recurrence of the ideal home.

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home / tourism / spatial practice / meaning construction / glamping

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LIN Jia-hui, LIU Hai-yan, ZENG Guo-jun. SPATIAL PRACTICE AND MEANING CONSTRUCTION OF "HOME" IN TOURISM CONTEXT: THE CASE OF GLAMPING[J]. HUMAN GEOGRAPHY. 2026, 41(2): 111-119 https://doi.org/10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2026.02.012

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