Who are the 'Hosts'?: Village Tours in Fenghuang County, China

Autor:	Xianghong Feng
Rok vydání:	2012
Předmět:	Globalization McDonaldization Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous) Commodification Economy Anthropology Rural tourism General Social Sciences Context (language use) Sociology Political authorities China Tourism
Zdroj:	Human Organization. 71:383-394
ISSN:	1938-3525 0018-7259
DOI:	10.17730/humo.71.4.f738385u0206j866
Popis:	In this article, from an anthropological power and scale perspective, I critically apply aspects of the McDonaldization thesis to the analysis of ethnographic cases of three village tours in Fenghuang County of rural China. I examine the role of tour operators as an emerging dominant power in shaping local tourism and society, through which both the toured and tourists are being objectified and consumed for profit at the hands of the global market. I explore resistance and acceptance from the toured and tourists in their response to global forces of commodification, dehumanization, and alienation. This article reveals the dynamics of the global process of "scaling up" in a local context of mass tourism. During this process, the private tourism operators and developers, connected with the local political authorities, were reaping most of the material rewards through their control of the tempo-spatial distribution of tourists and, therefore, were the actual "hosts" of the local tourism economy.
Databáze:	OpenAIRE
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