Nurturing nostalgia?: A response from rural tourism stakeholders

Christou, Prokopis; Farmaki, Anna; Evangelou, George

doi:10.1016/j.tourman.2018.05.010

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“…The current study supports the argument that people may have emotional responses linked to feelings of homesickness to a place with familiar landscape scenes [50,51]. These scenes can evoke people's memories and longing for a better life [52,53]. This study further demonstrated that certain landscape configurations can significantly change one's homesickness emotional response.…”

Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 85%

Does Adding Local Tree Elements into Dwellings Enhance Individuals’ Homesickness? Scenario-Visualisation for Developing Sustainable Rural Landscapes

Huang

Bosch

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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Rural residential settings are important elements of livable and sustainable rural areas across the world. Enhancing people’s attachment to these landscapes through fostering feelings of homesickness could help in the pursuit of better rural residential settings. We studied homesickness, an emotion found to be associated with higher place attachment and quality of life, related to rural landscapes in southeast China, looking specifically at the presence and configuration of rural dwellings and trees. We used Photoshop to manipulate different configurations of typical rural dwellings and trees, and three series with twelve types of landscape scenes were generated. We looked at the following six emotional factors linked to homesickness: naturalness; regional culture; identity; psychology; experience; and landscape aesthetics. The analytic hierarchy process (AHP) and semantic differential (SD) methods were used to evaluate the level in which the landscape evoked feelings of homesickness amongst study participants, i.e., a group of university students from different disciplines. Results show that the homesickness emotional response level was higher in most of the simulated landscapes, as compared to the original landscape, and that response levels differed significantly between the three types of visualized landscape configurations. The emotional response level showed differences for manipulated landscape scenes with twelve different trees added to dwellings. Through cluster analysis of the results, we divided trees into three grades of emotional response for each dwelling type. Adding trees thus was found to change the emotional response to the landscape, and different tree configurations with different types of dwellings results in different responses. The study shows that careful design of the rural landscape can help build stronger emotional relations of humans with their local environment, which is a key ingredient for sustainable countryside living.

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Section: Discussionsupporting

confidence: 85%

Does Adding Local Tree Elements into Dwellings Enhance Individuals’ Homesickness? Scenario-Visualisation for Developing Sustainable Rural Landscapes

Huang

Bosch

et al. 2018

Sustainability

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“…Until the early 2000s, little research focusing on nostalgia was undertaken in tourism contexts. However, tourism scholars have recently started to investigate the impact of nostalgia on tourist behavior in diverse settings such as rural tourism (Christou, Farmaki, & Evangelou, 2018), film tourism (S. Kim & Kim, 2018), cultural tourism (Suntikul, 2017), educational tourism (Rahman, Osmangani, Hassan, Anwar, & Fattah, 2016), food tourism (S. Kim & Iwashita, 2016), and heritage tourism (Ali, 2015;Verma & Rajendran, 2017).…”

Section: Nostalgia In Tourismmentioning

confidence: 99%

Cross-cultural Validation of the Nostalgia Scale for Sport Tourism (NSST): A Multilevel Approach

Cho

Joo

Woosnam³

2020

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research

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This study evaluated the cross-cultural generalizability of the Nostalgia Scale for Sport Tourism (NSST), which was originally developed and examined in the context of football tourists in the United States. Data were collected from baseball tourists in South Korea, and multilevel confirmatory factor analysis and multilevel structural equation modelling were used for data analysis. Results supported the reliability and the validity of the scale both at individual and group levels, revealing an identical five-factor structure across the 29-item scale. Additionally, this study found a significant effect of sport nostalgia on revisit intention both at individual and group levels. The findings indicate that the NSST is applicable in understanding sport tourists’ nostalgia across different sport and cultural settings. Implications and suggestions for future nostalgia research are also discussed.

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“…She took inspiration from territorial goods that are not more assets for its cultural heritage, but quite ruins. She was able to evoke a feeling of nostalgia for what was, for times gone by Christou et al (2018).…”

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Artification as a driver of public value co-creation: Evidence from the photographic exhibition on Italian Ghost hotel

Magliacani¹

2020

Afr. J. Bus. Manage.

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This study attempts to enlarge knowledge on public value co-creation within a complex environment such as artification. The transfiguration of object that is not regarded as art in the traditional sense into something art-like underpins the development of processes suitable for analyses within the co-creation framework. The case of "EXIT", the photographic exhibition on Ghost hotel in the province of Pavia (Lombardy, Northern Italy) has been carried out in order to achieve the research aim. The results, came out from the content analysis, demonstrated how artification triggers public value co-creation under specific conditions like the implementation of managerial logics, tools, and model. The conceptual model of artification co-creation attempts to fulfil the literature gaps which call for more investigations on the degree of citizen engagement in relation to the outcome of value creation within the democratic sphere.

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Nurturing nostalgia?: A response from rural tourism stakeholders

Cited by 93 publications

References 59 publications

Does Adding Local Tree Elements into Dwellings Enhance Individuals’ Homesickness? Scenario-Visualisation for Developing Sustainable Rural Landscapes

Does Adding Local Tree Elements into Dwellings Enhance Individuals’ Homesickness? Scenario-Visualisation for Developing Sustainable Rural Landscapes

Cross-cultural Validation of the Nostalgia Scale for Sport Tourism (NSST): A Multilevel Approach

Artification as a driver of public value co-creation: Evidence from the photographic exhibition on Italian Ghost hotel

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