All Outputs (2)

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.