Experiencing the real village – a netnographic examination of perceived authenticity in rural tourism consumption

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Experiencing the real village – a netnographic examination of perceived authenticity in rural tourism consumption

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Experiencing the real village – a netnographic examination of perceived authenticity in rural tourism consumption

J. H. Jyotsna¹, Upendra Kumar Maurya¹•Institutions (1)

Indian Institute of Technology Madras¹

19 Jun 2019-Asia Pacific Journal of Tourism Research (Routledge)-Vol. 24, Iss: 8, pp 750-762

TL;DR: There has been an upsurge of research interest regarding authenticity in contemporary tourism consumption as modern tourists have been found to prefer involve in real backstage experiences to participati... as discussed by the authors.

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Abstract: There is an upsurge of research interest regarding authenticity in contemporary tourism consumption as modern tourists have been found to prefer involve in real backstage experiences to participati...

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Louisiana State University in Shreveport¹, University of Kentucky²

01 Sep 2020-Journal of Travel Research

TL;DR: The authors empirically investigated the dimensions of destination authenticity from the perspective of outbound travelers from the United States and found that outbound tourists from the US were more likely to report that East Asian countries have invited Western tourists to visit these countries.

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Abstract: This study empirically investigates the dimensions of destination authenticity from the perspectives of outbound travelers from the United States. East Asian countries have invited Western tourists...

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...In particular, cultural tourists may formulate their own perceived standard for confirmation in deciding what is genuine, true, authentic, and accurate in a destination they visit by relying heavily on the appraisal of experts (Jyotsna and Maurya 2019; Reisinger and Steiner 2006)....
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...Thus, the tourists’ engagement in destination authenticity allows them to index or master what they perceive to be character forming, or qualitatively, for “their own knowledge expansion” (Jyotsna and Maurya 2019; Spielmann, Babin, and Manthiou 2018)....
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A review of authenticity research in tourism: Launching the Annals of Tourism Research Curated Collection on authenticity

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Jillian M. Rickly

01 Jan 2022-Annals of Tourism Research

TL;DR: In this paper , a review of the developments since the last major review of authenticity within the broader trends of 42 years of authenticity research (1979-2020) is presented, with a sample of 458 research articles, including descriptive statistics, thematic analysis and keyword co-frequency analysis.

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Abstract: Translators' Preface. Author's Preface to the Seventh German Edition. Introduction. Exposition of the Question of the Meaning of Being. 1. The Necessity, Structure, and Priority of the Question of Being. 2. The Twofold Task of Working out the Question of Being. Method and Design of our Investigation. Part I:. The Interpretation of Dasein in Terms of Temporality, and the Explication of Time as the Transcendental Horizon for the Question of Being. 3. Preparatory Fundamental Analysis of Dasein. Exposition of the Task of a Preparatory Analysis of Dasein. Being-in-the-World in General as the Basic State of Dasein. The Worldhood of the World. Being-in-the-World as Being-with and Being-One's-Self. The 'they'. Being-in as Such. Care as the Being of Dasein. 4. Dasein and Temporality. Dasein's Possibility of Being-a-Whole, and Being-Towards-Death. Dasein's Attestation of an Authentic Potentiality-for-Being, and Resoluteness. Dasein's Authentic Potentiality-for-Being-a-Whole, and Temporality as the Ontological Meaning of Care. Temporality and Everydayness. Temporality and Historicality. Temporality and Within-Time-Ness as the Source of the Ordinary Conception of Time. Author's Notes. Glossary of German Terms. Index.

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...Generally, the concept of authenticity, according to Heidegger (1962), was mainly focused on subjects whereas in the context of tourism studies the focus would shift to objects that are gazed upon (Waller & Lea, 1999)....
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The Field Behind the Screen: Using Netnography for Marketing Research in Online Communities

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Northwestern University¹

01 Feb 2002-Journal of Marketing Research

TL;DR: Netnography as mentioned in this paper is an online marketing research technique adapted to the study of online communities that provides information on the symbolism, meanings, and consumption patterns of online consumer groups and provides guidelines that acknowledge the inherent flexibility and openness of ethnography, and provide rigor and ethics in the conduct of marketing research.

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Abstract: The author develops “netnography” as an online marketing research technique for providing consumer insight. Netnography is ethnography adapted to the study of online communities. As a method, netnography is faster, simpler, and less expensive than traditional ethnography and more naturalistic and unobtrusive than focus groups or interviews. It provides information on the symbolism, meanings, and consumption patterns of online consumer groups. The author provides guidelines that acknowledge the online environment, respect the inherent flexibility and openness of ethnography, and provide rigor and ethics in the conduct of marketing research. As an illustrative example, the author provides a netnography of an online coffee newsgroup and discusses its marketing implications.

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An examination of the effects of motivation and satisfaction on destination loyalty: a structural model

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Yooshik Yoon, Muzaffer Uysal¹•Institutions (1)

Virginia Tech¹

01 Feb 2005-Tourism Management

TL;DR: In this paper, an integrated approach to understand tourist motivation and attempts to extend the theoretical and empirical evidence on the causal relationships among the push and pull motivations, satisfaction, and destination loyalty is presented.

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...…routine, spending time with family, education, appreciating health and natural resources, relaxation and rejuvenation (Kim, Lee, & Klenosky, 2003; Yoon & Uysal, 2005) have resulted in the emergence of different types of tourism such as adventure, luxury, wellness, gastro-tourism, cultural and…...
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Staged Authenticity: arrangements of social space in tourist settings

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Dean MacCannell

01 Nov 1973-American Journal of Sociology

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined accounts of travelers in terms of Erving Goffman's front versus back distinction and found that tourists try to enter back regions of the places they visit because these regions are associated with intimacy of relations and authenticity of experiences.

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Abstract: The problem of false consciousness and its relationship to the social structure of tourist establishments is analyzed. Accounts of travelers are examined in terms of Erving Goffman's front versus back distinction. It is found that tourists try to enter back regions of the places they visit because these regions are associated with intimacy of relations and authenticity of experiences. It is also found that tourist settings are arrenged to produce the impression that a back region has been entered even when this is not the case. In tourist settings, between the front and the back there is a series of special spaces designed to accommodate tourists and to support their beliefs in the authenticity of their experiences. Goffman's front-back dichotomy is shown to be ideal poles of a continuum, or a variable.

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...A real backstage is where the real life resides as stated by MacCannell (1976). In village visits, visitors seek authenticity through experiencing the day-today activities of residents, as against formalized touristic performances or events....
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...Hence this study does not subscribe to the abandonment of authenticity and it adopts the conceptualization of Mkono (2012), Kolar and Zabkar (2010), and Belhassen and Caton (2006) for investigating how authenticity is experienced in a rural setting....
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...MacCannell (1973) stated: “to experience the ‘authentic authenticity’, one has to be away from busy shopping centers and main streets which are the front stages.”...
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...In an earlier work, MacCannell (1973) introduced the concept of staged authenticity to explain the tourist experience in the form of stage play, which is far removed from authentic backstage experiences....
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Rethinking authenticity in tourism experience

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Ning Wang¹•Institutions (1)

Sun Yat-sen University¹

01 Apr 1999-Annals of Tourism Research

TL;DR: In this paper, a conceptual clarification of the meanings of authenticity in tourist experiences is presented, and three approaches are discussed, objectivism, constructivism, and postmodernism, and the limits of object-related authenticity are also exposed.

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...The typology proposed by Wang (1999) to conceptualize authenticity has been widely adopted in several studies (e.g. Chhabra, Lee, Zhao, & Scott, 2013; Cohen & Cohen, 2012; Jiang et al., 2017; Kolar & Zabkar, 2010; Le, Arcodia, Novais, & Kralj, 2019; Ram, Björk, & Weidenfeld, 2016; Spielmann, Babin,…...
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...Existential Authenticity can be further divided into two according to Wang (1999)....
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...Existential authenticity, as a tourist activity-related situation, is germane to the explanation of a greater variety of self-discovery experiences when tourists are having a good time (Wang, 1999)....
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...According to Wang (1999), authenticity in tourism consumption can be differentiated broadly into two perspectives: the authenticity of the toured object and the experience of the tourist....
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...Food as an indicator of object-based authenticity People perceive authenticity of the destination in terms of tourism products such as cuisine, art, festivals, housing, clothing, rituals made or enacted by the local people according to their customs and traditions (Wang, 1999)....
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