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| PLACE MAKING OF TOURIST DESTINATIONS DRIVEN BY TOURIST MIGRATION: A CASE STUDY OF WENTANG TOWN, MINGYUE MOUNTAIN, JIANGXI PROVINCE |
| LI Peng, CAO Hui-ling, TIAN Si-yu |
| School of Geography, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, China |
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Abstract Under the background of increasing social mobility in China, the tourist migration who pursue a healthy quality of life are increasingly becoming important actors that have a profound impact on the development of tourist destinations. Taking Wentang town, Mingyue mountain, Jiangxi province as an example, this paper uses semi-structured interviews and participant observation to study the process of place making driven by retirement migration in Wentang town. The findings are as follows:1) By constructing a destination-based identity such as "New Wentang People", retirement migration show their differences from tourists, and establish a sense of belonging to the place, so that migration groups from different cities have a common identity; 2) On the basis of the new identity, the retirement migration substitute the experience from the city into the imagination of resource development, community governance and rural construction of the tourist destination, and complete the reproduction of the place meaning of Wentang town; 3) Retirement migration, local governments and local residents have different degrees of contradictions and conflicts in tourism resources development, community governance and leisure space use because of their different understandings of place meaning; 4) With the help of the political and social consultation mechanism such as the New Wentangren Party Branch and Mingyueshan Volunteer College, the retirement migration have effectively solved the contradictions and conflicts of different subjects in the place making and promoted the local into a new development.This research will help deepen the theoretical understanding of tourist migration on the process of place making in tourist destinations under the background of mobility in China.
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Received: 06 April 2022
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