Pathways to the trail – landscape, walking and heritage in a Scandinavian border region

Svensson, Daniel; Sörlin, Sverker; Saltzman, Katarina

doi:10.1080/00291951.2021.1998216

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“…Their practices produce meanings both on officially designated tourism trails and unofficial trails, rendering the former Chamagudao trails rather than ‘just’ walking trails, and the latter to be discovered and maintained as Chamagudao walking trails in the first place, illustrating walking and other mobile practices’ potential for securing otherwise marginalised interpretations of heritage (Wang and Kao, 2017). Corporeal mobile practices bring the Chamagudao’s mobile heritage to life, articulating trails as ‘landscapes genuinely suitable for movement on foot’ (Svensson et al, 2021: 243). Trails are thus mobilised as ‘destinations-in-motion’, in turn framing the Chamagudao as a mobile heritage destination of nodes and lines.…”

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“…Heritage trails commonly embody landscapes of mobility heritage based on physical and intellectual movements of people, objects, and knowledge over time (Svensson et al, 2021) and encompass a variety of experiential products, focused on nature, cultural heritage, religious pilgrimage, or other historical mobilities.…”

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“…Mobilities in the form of people’s, objects’ and technologies’ movements are an integral component of heritage landscapes, to which the new mobilities paradigm provides a lens to investigate more fluid, mobile types, aspects and productions of heritage (Sheller and Urry, 2006). Tourism routes and trails represent compelling cases as physical representatives of mobile heritage made by and for forms of physical and cultural mobilities along pathways between individual bounded sites (Svensson et al, 2021). Understanding trails as mobile heritage acknowledges that mobile practices and experiences and how these are enabled and disabled, need to be considered within studies of heritage routes, as they allow tourists to make ‘experiences of discovery’ related to tangible and intangible ideas about mobilities and their role within culture, nature, history and art (du Cros and Jolliffe, 2011: 183).…”

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Tourism routes through a mobile lens: The case of China’s Chamagudao

Witte

2023

Tourist Studies

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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 tourists, guides, residents and information on the remaining trails of the Chamagudao. It outlines how nodes, constructed by state actors and touristic media, rather than the lines of mobile heritage primarily constitute the Chamagudao, and the implications for tourists’ awareness and understanding of the Chamagudao as mobile heritage. Explicitly mobile practices occurring along its trajectories are challenging the nodal interpretations of this historic route. The article offers a mobile perspective on assessing the opportunities and challenges faced by tourism routes in China in the governments bid to develop these as mobile heritage destinations.

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Tourism routes through a mobile lens: The case of China’s Chamagudao

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2023

Tourist Studies

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“…According to the editors of this volume, '[w]hereas a path is an unintended result of walking, walking is one of the intended results of trails'. 61 Following this, we owe both our movement heritage and its resulting trailscape 62 to our non-human companions. Their hooves have habitually embodied the movement heritage of the land.…”

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