The role and dimensions of authenticity in heritage tourism

Park, Eunkyung; Byoung-Kil, Choi; Lee, Timothy Jeonglyeol

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2019.03.001

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“…Object-based authenticity refers to the authenticity judged by the tourism object-the tourism attraction [6]; while existential authenticity refers to an authentic experience judged by the tourism subject-tourists [7]. It is a state of being that can be produced or pursued through tourism activities and a state of being true to one's own values and beliefs [8]. Present-day existential authenticity has received considerable attention in the tourism academic research [9][10][11][12].…”

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Examining Structural Relationships among Brand Experience, Existential Authenticity, and Place Attachment in Slow Tourism Destinations

2020

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Understanding how tourists’ brand experiences impact their existential authenticity, and the role of existential authenticity in the formation mechanism of place attachment to the destination, are key issues for the marketing of a destination. The current study examines the relationship between tourists’ experience, existential authenticity, and place attachment, and the indirect effect of existential authenticity on the relationship between destination brand experience and place attachment from the oriental perspective against the slow tourism background. A self-administered survey was conducted at Yaxi town, the first international slow city in China. A total of 398 samples were analyzed using a two-step approach of the structural equation model (SEM). The findings show that destination brand experience partially impacts existential authenticity, and both the intrapersonal and interpersonal authenticity (the sub-dimensions of existential authenticity) significantly influence place attachment. Additionally, affective and behavioral experience indirectly influence place attachment through existential authenticity. Based on the conclusions, theoretical and practical recommendations are considered.

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Examining Structural Relationships among Brand Experience, Existential Authenticity, and Place Attachment in Slow Tourism Destinations

2020

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“…which tourists perceive products, events, and experiences as genuine [1], true [2], real [3], and historically accurate [4]. It can be contended that authenticity has an important influence on the tourist evaluation of and satisfaction with a given service [5,6,7] as well as on loyalty [6,7,8]. Hence, a better understanding of authenticity phenomena in tourism service is particularly important, and will permit the industry to better perform.…”

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“…Moreover, authenticity has been applied to heritage tourism (e.g. [6,7,8]) for predicting tourists' revisit intention as well as loyalty. The variety of culture events were adopted by the managers of heritage tourism.…”

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The Determinates of Revisit Intentions in Wine Cultural Event: The Moderating Role of Experience Authenticity

Yen

2020

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The purpose of this study is to investigate the perspectives of attendees on experience authenticity of a wine culture event to assess what drives their revisit intentions. A questionnaire survey was undertaken for collecting data at a wine cultural event held at Yibin. A total of 529 valid samples were received for the further hypotheses testing. The results showed that both perceived value and event satisfaction were key antecedents of revisit intentions and the moderating role of experience authenticity was confirmed. Finally, the manageable results for wine culture event managers and future researchers were drawn.

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“…An important attribute of heritage tourism is authenticity, or at least the perception of it (Boniface and Fowler 1993;Taylor 2001;Waitt 2000). Authenticity is a pivotal component for tourists who expect to experience the heritage of other cultures when they travel (Park et al 2019). In tourism, authenticity is often related to tourism objects, tourism sites, tourist attractions, and tourist experiences (Rickly-Boyd 2012).…”

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Culture, Technology, and Tourism (CTT) Theory:An Ontological Perspective

Ardianto

2019

Garuda

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Author argues that Culture, Technology, and Tourism (CTT) is an integrated mult idisciplinary. Therefore, author explores dimensionality of CTT Theory fro m various perspective. The results are: 1) local wisdom is the essence of the authenticity of cultural heritage; 2) local community as the actor should has the role to protect environment in order to ensure sustainability of touris m; 3) mult istakeholder network should be managed as a pattern of complexity that characteristic of an integrated mult idisciplinary; 4) creative economy and sociopreneurship as the enabler and driver of tourism entrepreneurship to ensure sustainability of touris m; 5) s mart touris m that leverage the technology should be constructed through destination management in order to ensure sustainability of touris m and the authenticity of tourism; and 6) body-mind and hedonic-eudaimonic should be integrated to manage tourist's well-being. Refer to general system theory, author explains a CTT theory through relationship between those six results of dimensionality through input, process, output, and outcome relat ion.

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The role and dimensions of authenticity in heritage tourism

Cited by 326 publications

References 67 publications

Examining Structural Relationships among Brand Experience, Existential Authenticity, and Place Attachment in Slow Tourism Destinations

Examining Structural Relationships among Brand Experience, Existential Authenticity, and Place Attachment in Slow Tourism Destinations

The Determinates of Revisit Intentions in Wine Cultural Event: The Moderating Role of Experience Authenticity

Culture, Technology, and Tourism (CTT) Theory:An Ontological Perspective

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