Rethinking authenticity through complexity paradigm

Avaliação da interpretação ambiental na perspectiva dos visitantes de atrativos naturais

“…Assim, sem a oportunidade de contato com os temas, o aprendizado está bloqueado e, consequentemente, parte da interpretação ambiental possível deixa de ser realizada. O empobrecimento da experiência de visitação pode afetar, inclusive, outros aspectos ligados à autenticidade do turismo (Andrade-Matos et al, 2022), satisfação do visitante (Vale et al, 2019;Oliveira et al, 2021) e ao aproveitamento adequado das áreas naturais para o uso ecoturístico (Rangel & Sinay, 2019;Fennell, 2020;Bussolotti et al, 2020;Bernal et al, 2021).…”

The authentic experiences of tourists in Chinese traditional villages based on constructivism: a case study of Chengkan village

“…As Hughes (1995) said, the issue of authenticity runs through tourism research like “obligation.” It has been studied in tourism research for more than 40 years, and scholars have promoted the theoretical construction and case studies of authenticity in the process of reflecting on research paradigms (De Andrade-Matos et al , 2022; Wang, 1999) and reviewing the dynamics of progress (Rickly, 2022; Zhao and Dong, 2012; Zhao and Li, 2012). At the same time, there are also many debates and cognitive tensions.…”

“…Although there are still debates between different paradigms of authenticity research (De Andrade-Matos et al, 2022;Wang, 1999), from the research trend, research on authenticity Tourists in Chinese traditional villages has shifted from an absolutely solidified essentialist concept of authenticity to a partial, constructed and situational concept of authenticity (Gregory et al, 2009), claiming that:…”