2008
DOI: 10.1177/0047287508328796
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Tourism, a Classic Novel, and Television

Abstract: This article reports a study of the importance of the classic Chinese novel, The Dream of the Red Mansion, in attracting visitors to Grand View Gardens in Beijing. That site was built as a replica of a Qing Dynasty palace for a popular television series. The study found that 52% of the 308 respondents stated that the novel was very or extremely important in attracting them to the gardens. The article seeks to go beyond this statistic by examining how familiarity with the novel might help explain some of the st… Show more

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“…As a result of previous studies [41,42,[44][45][46][47][48][49][50], it was found that among the components of storytelling, tourism destination storytelling components that can be applied to tourist destinations are interestingness [41,43,47], educability [41,43,49,50], sensibility [41,43,50], descriptiveness [41,43,50] and uniqueness [42,50]. Therefore, they were composed of factors of storytelling in this research.…”
Section: Tourism Storytellingmentioning
confidence: 77%
“…As a result of previous studies [41,42,[44][45][46][47][48][49][50], it was found that among the components of storytelling, tourism destination storytelling components that can be applied to tourist destinations are interestingness [41,43,47], educability [41,43,49,50], sensibility [41,43,50], descriptiveness [41,43,50] and uniqueness [42,50]. Therefore, they were composed of factors of storytelling in this research.…”
Section: Tourism Storytellingmentioning
confidence: 77%
“…The current tourism product concentration on servicedominated needs to be expanded to accommodate physical environment and local cultural tourism (Suntikul & Jachna, 2016). The tourist experience of a place made popular by fiction, it also needs to incorporate cultural, media, literary studies and visitors (Ryan et al, 2008).The memorable local food experience has a significant influence on tourist willingness to recommend (Adongo et al, 2015;Chang et al, 2021). Moreover, with the rapid development of information technology, smart systems have permeated travel and life (Vila et al, 2020).…”
Section: Research Hotspots and Trends Of Tourism Experiencementioning
confidence: 99%