All Outputs (8)

Hokkien Chinese diaspora visitors’ image construction of their ancestral hometown: the role of the tourist gaze (2023)
Journal Article
Wang, Q., & Witte, A. (2023). Hokkien Chinese diaspora visitors’ image construction of their ancestral hometown: the role of the tourist gaze. Journal of Heritage Tourism, 18(6), 768-784. https://doi.org/10.1080/1743873x.2023.2252112

This study examines how diaspora tourists’ secondary and primary image of their ancestral home is constructed and how the tourist gaze is implied within. The study focuses on the Hokkien Chinese diaspora travelling to their ancestral hometown of Quan... Read More about Hokkien Chinese diaspora visitors’ image construction of their ancestral hometown: the role of the tourist gaze.

Tourism routes through a mobile lens: The case of China’s Chamagudao (2023)
Journal Article
Witte, A. (2023). Tourism routes through a mobile lens: The case of China’s Chamagudao. Tourist Studies, 23(3), 181-207. https://doi.org/10.1177/14687976231189834

This article examines how various stakeholders’ practices on the ground mobilise and immobilise the Chamagudao’s heritage as a historic trade and caravan route. The research is based on ethnographic fieldwork in Yunnan, China, following movements of... Read More about Tourism routes through a mobile lens: The case of China’s Chamagudao.

Navigating tourism ethnographies – fieldwork embroiled in time, movement and emotion (2022)
Journal Article
Witte, A., Wilson, J., Burrai, E., & Dashper, K. (2023). Navigating tourism ethnographies – fieldwork embroiled in time, movement and emotion. Current Issues in Tourism, 26(9), 1394-1408. https://doi.org/10.1080/13683500.2022.2057841

In this paper, we reflect on the challenges of ethnographic fieldwork in tourism research. Specifically, we discuss the intense, messy and complex dynamics of doing (tourism) ethnographic fieldwork, highlighting how key challenges have affected us as... Read More about Navigating tourism ethnographies – fieldwork embroiled in time, movement and emotion.

Gendered tourism experiences in China: exploring identity, mobility, and resistance online (2021)
Journal Article
Muldoon, M. L., Witte, A., Guan, S., Fang, H. Y., Xie, Y., & Zhou, L. (2023). Gendered tourism experiences in China: exploring identity, mobility, and resistance online. Annals of Leisure Research, 26(3), 433-453. https://doi.org/10.1080/11745398.2021.1878379

This paper presents research exploring the narratives Chinese women and men share online regarding gendered tourism experiences. Data were collected from 260 blog postings and resulting discussion threads on Chinese social media travel sites from Mar... Read More about Gendered tourism experiences in China: exploring identity, mobility, and resistance online.

Revisiting walking as mobile place-making practice: a discursive perspective (2021)
Journal Article
Witte, A. (2023). Revisiting walking as mobile place-making practice: a discursive perspective. Tourism Geographies, 25(1), 334-356. https://doi.org/10.1080/14616688.2021.1878269

Embodied mobilities are an important factor in how people engage with their environment, and thus contribute to the formation, contestation, and affirmation of place. Walking is a mobile place-making practice that most people engage in on an almost d... Read More about Revisiting walking as mobile place-making practice: a discursive perspective.

Tourist’s mobilities: Walking, cycling, driving and waiting (2021)
Journal Article
Hannam, K., Butler, G., Witte, A., & Zuev, D. (2021). Tourist’s mobilities: Walking, cycling, driving and waiting. Tourist Studies, 21(1), 57-69. https://doi.org/10.1177/1468797621992931

This commentary reviews recent research in terms of tourist’s mobilities in terms practices of walking, cycling and driving. It concludes by reflecting on the contemporary lock down of travel in terms of the global pandemic and its consequences for w... Read More about Tourist’s mobilities: Walking, cycling, driving and waiting.

“Chinese don’t walk?” – The emergence of domestic walking tourism on China’s Ancient Tea Horse Road (2020)
Journal Article
Witte, A. (2021). “Chinese don’t walk?” – The emergence of domestic walking tourism on China’s Ancient Tea Horse Road. Journal of Leisure Research, 52(4), 424-445. https://doi.org/10.1080/00222216.2020.1847624

Walking is a potential key growth area for a diversifying domestic leisure and tourism demand in China. This research discusses the emergence of walking as a touristic activity among Chinese domestic tourists on the Ancient Tea Horse Road (ATHR) in Y... Read More about “Chinese don’t walk?” – The emergence of domestic walking tourism on China’s Ancient Tea Horse Road.

Walking online: A netnography of China's emerging hiking communities (2017)
Book Chapter
Witte, A., & Hannam, K. (2017). Walking online: A netnography of China's emerging hiking communities. In C. Michael Hall, Y. Ram, & N. Shoval (Eds.), The Routledge International Handbook of Walking. Routledge. https://doi.org/10.4324/9781315638461-15

This chapter is based on a netnographic approach that was chosen due to the development of Chinese online communities dedicated to specific leisure and tourism pursuits. In China, the development of online communities has allowed the formation of new... Read More about Walking online: A netnography of China's emerging hiking communities.