<i>Yuanfen</i> and traveling neo‐tribes: Social interactions and group relations among Chinese road travelers

Wang, Xueji; Xie, Jia Lin

doi:10.1002/jtr.2410

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“…Currently, only several recent studies (i.e. Jiang et al , 2022; Wang and Xie, 2021; Zhang et al , 2020) have discussed yuanfen in the accommodation or travel context. In the travel context, a sense of having yuanfen with other tourists is found to influence travel experiences (Wang and Xie, 2021), whereas yuan-connected strangers help foster tourists’ sense of place (Jiang et al , 2022).…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Toward a framework for perceived yuanfen in the accommodation service encounter: a grounded theory study

Tang

Fong

2023

IJCHM

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Purpose This study aims to conceptualize the potential stimuli and consequences of perceived yuanfen in the accommodation service encounter by interpreting how Chinese customers perceive yuanfen during their stay in accommodations. Design/methodology/approach Online accommodation reviews containing yuanfen perception were interpreted using a grounded theory approach. Group interviews were conducted to verify the interpretations. Findings Positive outcome-generated emotional accommodation experiences (e.g. happiness) can elicit perceived yuanfen, which then evokes customers’ feelings of gratitude, emotional attachment to an accommodation and memorable accommodation experiences. Also, perceived yuanfen facilitates customers’ tolerance of service failures and promotes customers’ intention to stay longer at, recommend and revisit the accommodation. Research limitations/implications This study contributes to the literature on accommodation experiences, loyalty, word-of-mouth and service recovery. Future research can explore the interventions that trigger Chinese customers’ perceived yuanfen during accommodation. Practical implications This study informs practitioners of the importance of perceived yuanfen in enhancing accommodation experiences and service recovery. Moreover, the conceptualized characteristics and stimuli of perceived yuanfen offer possible guidelines for practitioners on how to stimulate customers’ yuanfen perception. Originality/value This study fills the gap of how perceived yuanfen functions in the service encounters in accommodations.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Second, the existing studies argued that perceived yuanfen influences customer experiences (Zhang et al , 2020). However, they also found that customers attribute positive experiences to yuanfen (Wang and Xie, 2021). Thus, the causal relationship between customer experiences and perceived yuanfen is still ambiguous.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Toward a framework for perceived yuanfen in the accommodation service encounter: a grounded theory study

Tang

Fong

2023

IJCHM

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“…Travel on a transport artery generates a plethora of social encounters between strangers, shaped by the duration, hardship and riskiness of the journey (Wang and Xie, 2021). Along the major routes leading to Tibet, those who travel by cars may show gestures of respect to the hikers and cyclists met on the road.…”

Section: More‐than‐representational Encountersmentioning

confidence: 99%

Reconciling essential and socially constructed selves: Han Chinese travelling to Tibet and the making of assemblage self

Zhang

Qian

2022

Asia Pacific Viewpoint

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In post‐reform China, Han Chinese urbanities traveling to Tibet have contributed to a new literary genre that documents tourist mobility as a means of self‐finding and self‐exploration. The sample of data in this study consists of 28 book‐length travel writings by Han travellers, and the primary research question addresses the relationships between tourism mobility and self‐making, a widely debated issue in cultural and tourism geographies. Engaging with the conceptual tension between an essential self and a socially constructed self, this study argues that while Han writers' travels to Tibet are germane to the hunt for an essential self as a hidden treasure to be redeemed, the self is by no means merely introspective, but intrinsically relational and constituted by social, embodied and materially mediated practices. For the purpose of reconciling and synthesizing the two theoretical positions, this study proposes an alternative concept known as the ‘assemblage self’, which tries to capture how the more‐than‐human and more‐than‐representational dimensions of mobilities can speak back powerfully to the phenomenology of the self. This concept is relational and performative in the sense that it is constituted by networks of discourses, practices, and materialities. We develop this concept by engaging with the recent literature on more‐than‐representational mobility as a conceptual nexus connecting the concepts of the essential self and the socially constructed self.

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“…Since then, the neo tribal theory has been accepted as an alternative to subculture theory. The theory is first used in sociological researches (Bennett, 1999;Hetherington, 1998;Hughson, 1999), then in marketing researches (Cooper, McLoughlin, & Keating, 2005;Cova & Cova, 2001), and recently in recreation and tourism researches (Goulding & Shankar, 2011;Hardy & Robards, 2015;Hardy, Dolnicar, & Vorobjovas-Pinta, 2021;St John, 2018;Vorobjovas-Pinta, 2018;Vorobjovas-Pinta & Lewis, 2021;Wang & Xie, 2021;Weaver, 2011;Wu & Dai, 2019). Therefore, neo tribal theory can be considered as a guide to understanding the social behaviors of travelers or tourists.…”

Section: Neo Tribes and Drug Touristsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Results revealed the origin of the neo tribe, as a support mechanism for homeowners and a challenge to perceived marginalization by the tourism industry that refuses to embrace their hosts. Within the theoretical framework of neo tribes, Wang and Xie (2021) explored the mobilities of road travelers on the Sichuan-Tibet Highway in China and explained their social interactions. They found that social interactions during road travels are 'easily meet, easily part.'…”

Section: Neo Tribes and Drug Touristsmentioning

confidence: 99%

From escape to seeking: understanding drug tourists

BİNGÖL

2021

Journal of Tourism and Cultural Change

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Studying the relations between travel, daily life, and drugs will help understand why these tourists use drugs. Hence, the article aims to explore the social behaviors that shape the reasons and causes tourists to use drugs while traveling to a destination. For this purpose, unstructured interview and participant observation techniques were used in the study, applying the ethnography research approach. In this context, data were collected in Thailand, Cambodia, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Turkey as drug destinations between 2016 and 2020. Accordingly, while drug use in daily life is for escaping from daily life and recreational purposes, drug use while traveling occurs within the pursuit of happiness. As a result of their pursuit of happiness, drug tourists (as neo tribes) engage in social behaviors such as building strong social relations, feeling a sense of freedom, being in an entertaining atmosphere, and living the local culture. As a result, drug tourists see travel as a process from escape to seeking.

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Yuanfen and traveling neo‐tribes: Social interactions and group relations among Chinese road travelers

Cited by 5 publications

References 63 publications

Toward a framework for perceived yuanfen in the accommodation service encounter: a grounded theory study

Toward a framework for perceived yuanfen in the accommodation service encounter: a grounded theory study

Reconciling essential and socially constructed selves: Han Chinese travelling to Tibet and the making of assemblage self

From escape to seeking: understanding drug tourists

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