Cultural landscape perception of the Chinese traditional settlement: Based on tourists’ online comments

Abstract

The cultural landscape in traditional settlements is an important historical and cultural resource created by human beings in the process of historical evolution, and is an important resource for the development of traditional settlement tourism. This paper selected 21 representative traditional settlements for research using online comments from tourists as data and content analytical methods including high-frequency vocabulary, semantic networks and emotional attitudes to explore the public perspective on the connotations of cultural landscape features in traditional settlements. There are four major findings, showing first that the cultural landscape of traditional settlements contains three core elements. Second, the semantic network relationships of the core elements show a significant central–edge tendency; and third, the emotional perception of cultural landscapes in traditional settlements is generally positive, and there is no significant difference emotionally between each core element. Last, the public’s perception of the cultural connotations of the landscape is seriously insufficient. Based on the research results, planning suggestions and countermeasures for the conservation and utilization of cultural landscapes in traditional settlements are proposed.

Delineating Landscape Features Perception in Tourism-Based Traditional Villages: A Case Study of Xijiang Thousand Households Miao Village, Guizhou

“…In addition, the word frequency analysis shows that "night landscape", "food", "footstools", and so on are the high-frequency words that have been repeatedly mentioned in the tourists' comments, and this symbolic landscape element is the most important element of the tourist attraction. This symbolic landscape element [104] is also one of the core elements in the formation of tourists' perceptual intention towards tourism purpose, but the public seems to have a weak perception of the cultural connotations of the landscape, which is in line with the findings of Jingjing Zhou [105].…”

Impact of the Perceived Quality of Traditional Villages’ Cultural Landscapes on Tourists’ Loyalty

“…These villages showcase diverse regional cultures and folk customs, with rich historical, cultural, social, artistic, and economic values (J. Zhou et al 2023). Against the backdrop of rural revitalization in China, traditional villages' cultural landscapes have become important tourism resources (Martínez, Sanagustín, and Blanco 2018; W. Yang et al 2022).…”

“…When these cultural landscapes lead cultural tourism development, they can effectively guide and promote traditional villages' conservation and revitalization (J. Zhou et al 2023).…”

“…Research on the perceived quality of traditional villages' cultural landscapes primarily assesses the quality of cultural perceptions from the tourist's perspective. Zhou et al (2023) conducted an online text-based assessment to evaluate tourist perceptions of cultural landscapes in traditional villages; while they observed that tourists generally had positive perceptions of cultural landscapes, their perceptions of the landscapes' cultural significance was lacking. Beeho and Prentice (1997) employed in-depth interviews to analyze tourists' experiential perceptions at New Lanark Village, a World Heritage Site in the United Kingdom.…”

Temporal and Emotional Variations in People’s Perceptions of Mass Epidemic Infectious Disease After the COVID-19 Pandemic Using Influenza A as an Example: Topic Modeling and Sentiment Analysis Based on Weibo Data

“…Therefore, we chose text mining as the research method to ensure the spatial and temporal diversity of data. Moreover, text mining applications have been used in various areas, including tourism [10,11], business [12,13], education [14,15], and health care [16][17][18] for a variety of beneficial purposes.…”