Postcolonial perspectives on colonial heritage tourism: The domestic tourist consumption of French heritage in Puducherry, India

Jørgensen, Helle

doi:10.1016/j.annals.2019.05.001

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“…The concept of nostalgia has shifted from an individual's interest in historical considerations to a more positive behavior (Christou et al , 2018; Cho et al , 2019; Christou, 2020). Research has shown that colonial nostalgia is often used in tourism (Jørgensen, 2019; Bernini et al , 2020; Latiff et al , 2020), and that compared to authenticity and nostalgia, involvement is the strongest predictor of visitor satisfaction.…”

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confidence: 99%

Promoting traditional local cuisines for tourists: evidence from Taiwan

Kan

Hsu

2021

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Purpose This study aims to analyze the challenges facing tourism marketing, specifically traditional local cuisines. These challenges include communication with tourists, tourists' revisit behaviors mediated by place identity and perceived interactivity with service providers. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected via random sampling in Taiwan. The model and hypothesis were tested using a structural equation modeling approach. One thousand participants were invited to respond to a questionnaire. After removing those that declined to participate or returned incomplete questionnaires, 411 valid questionnaire responses were received. Findings The findings of this study provide exciting insights into how traditional local cuisine strategies affect tourists' behavior. Governments can foster a destination image with a nostalgic aesthetic to attract more tourists. Moreover, destination marketers should provide mechanisms for instant interactions for tourists, such as mobile travel apps. Research limitations/implications This research sample focuses on promoting emotional connections between tourists and the experience of traditional local cuisines at the destination. An understanding of nostalgic cuisine could provide a better understanding of why tourists are willing to engage in unique travel experiences. Practical implications Traditional local cuisine providers should consider aesthetics, including their decoration, style, and markers. Further, it is important that service staff make tourists feel comfortable and satisfied with the traditional local cuisine experience. Originality/value This study contributes to the destination marketing of traditional local cuisines from the perspective of nostalgia. The findings of this study provide interesting insights into how traditional local cuisine strategies affect tourists' behaviors.

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Promoting traditional local cuisines for tourists: evidence from Taiwan

Kan

Hsu

2021

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“…Colonial heritage can carry the imagination of domestic visitors, as Jørgensen's research results that local governments use Pudcherry's French heritage as a product that manifests Indian interests in a postcolonial perspective (Van Der Merwe, 2014). Colonial heritage can carry the imagination of domestic visitors, as Jørgensen's research results that local governments use Pudcherry's French heritage as a product that manifests Indian interests in a postcolonial perspective (Jørgensen, 2019). Through this perspective, the use of heritage as a tourism product does not confront the dichotomy between tourists who come from former colonial powers and areas that were once colonized.…”

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confidence: 98%

Mapping Tourism Potential Based on Urban Heritage Tourism in Medan City

Ponirin

Rambe

Khairani

2021

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The city of Medan is the third-largest city in Indonesia and has historical buildings or heritage that can be revitalized as a cultural heritage with tourism potential that can be developed. However, until now, the colonial heritage buildings have been destroyed up to 70%. This research method uses a tourism anthropology approach with a qualitative research type that focuses on tourist destinations. The research location is a heritage area, a colonial heritage building in the Merdeka Square segment, Maimoon segment, Benteng segment, Youth segment, Polonia segment, and Sambu segment. The study results reveal that Medan has a heritage in the form of historic buildings that have the potential to be developed and represent the identity of the city of Medan. The potential for tourism development can be carried out in 3 (three) potential areas, namely: 1) The youth segment, which includes Gedung Juang 45, which currently functions as the Sumatran Money Museum, Tip Top Restaurant, and Tjong A Fie Mansion. 2) the Maimoon segment, which includes: Maimoon Palace and the Great Mosque. 3) The Merdeka Square segment includes City Hall, which currently functions as the Grand City Hall, Hotel De Boer (currently called Grand Inna Hotel), and the London Sumatra building. Through urban tourism based on urban heritage tourism, tourists can be invited to appreciate and interpret the objects observed. It serves as education and recreation for the community. This activity is also a means of preserving the wealth and identity of the city of Medan.

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“…In recent years, as colonial heritage sites have become popular tourism destinations around the world, the conservation and touristic development of colonial heritage have been increasingly situated in a postcolonial perspective through the lens of decolonisation (Jørgensen 2019 ). From this perspective, the tourism development of colonial heritage can be problematic.…”

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“…On the one hand, colonial heritage is associated with a colonial history that is usually deemed to be negative, traumatic, and humiliating for nations that were colonised (Youn and Uzzell 2016 ; Ifversen and Pozzi 2020 ). On the other hand, when people from countries that were once colonisers travel to previous colonies, this process is conceptualised as neo-colonialism that has significant impacts on local communities’ daily lives and shapes, or even determines, how heritage sites are conserved and developed, usually based on Eurocentric heritage conservation philosophy (Jørgensen 2019 ; Fortenberry 2021 ). Meanwhile, in places that were once colonised and are usually developing, the touristic development of colonial heritage sites has brought new opportunities in terms of economic growth and social advancement (Chambers and Buzinede 2015 ).…”

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“…These questions relate to the discourses used to address colonial heritage and the power relations embedded in its conservation and touristic development. The actors involved in the process do not necessarily come from the previously colonising nations and colonised nations, but they might well be within the previously colonised nations, if domestic tourism dominates international tourism (Jørgensen 2019 ).…”

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Is colonial heritage negative or not so much? Debating heritage discourses and selective interpretation of Kulangsu, China

Wei

Wang

2022

Built Heritage

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Heritage is in essence dissonant, especially colonial heritage in postcolonial nations. Via questionnaire surveys and interviews, this study investigates Kulangsu in Xiamen, China, a colonial heritage site mainly developed in the 19th and 20th centuries, to unveil the local government’s authorised heritage discourse (AHD) of the site and how tourists perceive the colonial past of Kulangsu and construct their own heritage discourse(s). Results show that, when considering the colonial history of the site, neither the AHD promoted by the authorities nor the tourists’ lay discourses are necessarily negative. However, tension implicitly arises between the tourists’ demand for comprehensive heritage information and the authorities’ selective interpretation of the site. Although the AHD affects lay discourses to some extent, most tourists expect the authorities to present more complete and neutral information about heritage so they can reflect and forge their own conception of colonial legacies. From a critical heritage studies perspective, this tension reflects the power imbalance between the authorities and the tourists and reminds the authorities and heritage experts to rethink heritage tourism and conservation in terms of heritage interpretation. This paper, therefore, calls for additional reflection on the legitimacy of selective interpretation, which implicates a complex process of intricate reasoning that is underpinned by the power imbalance between the authorities and the tourists, ultimately resulting in an AHD.

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Postcolonial perspectives on colonial heritage tourism: The domestic tourist consumption of French heritage in Puducherry, India

Cited by 21 publications

References 30 publications

Promoting traditional local cuisines for tourists: evidence from Taiwan

Promoting traditional local cuisines for tourists: evidence from Taiwan

Mapping Tourism Potential Based on Urban Heritage Tourism in Medan City

Is colonial heritage negative or not so much? Debating heritage discourses and selective interpretation of Kulangsu, China

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