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HUMAN GEOGRAPHY  2017, Vol. 32 Issue (4): 129-137    DOI: 10.13959/j.issn.1003-2398.2017.04.018
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TOURIST EXPERIENCE ON A BODY PERSPECTIVE:GROUNDED THEORY ANALYSIS ON TREKKING WRITINGS AND INTERVIEWS
XIE Yan-jun1,2, FAN You-meng3
1. School of Tourism, Hainan University, Haikou 570228, China;
2. School of Tourism and Hotel Management, Dongbei University of Finance and Economics, Dalian 116025, China;
3. College of History and Culture, Qufu Normal University, Qufu 273165, China

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Abstract  On the basis of literature review, the paper analyzed texts about trekking travel notes and interviews by Grounded Theory on the perspective of geography of body. Then the author built a tourist experience model on the basis of 1 core category, 7 main categories and 24 corresponding categories. The paper argued that the nature of tourist experience is a kind of embodied practice for becoming, namely it is person's object activity which immersed in the tourist situations by embodied participation for individual improvement and development. The experiences are composed of 4 styles in sequence:1)Arousing experience of body sense:People who have suffered pressures in everyday life entered into tourist world, then felt strong lived bodily existence of themselves by resisting social discipline, showing body technology and stimulate body consciousness. 2)Immersing experience of body-mind:In the process of body moving and sensing, travelers experienced staggered transformation between aesthetic pleasures and corporal pains, and between positive emotions and negative emotions, then immersed into the surrounding situations. 3)Co-presence experience with others and nature:Travelers gradually extended their boundaries of body until integrating themselves with trekking equipments, other people, and the nature. 4)Becoming experience of individual:It is a process of self-refreshing, self-development and self-creation by sharpening the mind and body, getting knowledge, and purifying souls in tourist world.
Key wordstourist experience      embodiment      trekking      grounded theory     
Received: 05 April 2016     
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