A Research on Tourists’ Cultural Capital

Motivation, Form and Construction

DOI

10.2991/assehr.k.210806.176How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Tourists, Cultural Capital, Distinction

Abstract

The research on the tourists’ consumer behavior is being a research hotspot gradually. Most of the existing research, which comes from the perspective of economics and psychology, focuses on the process of consumption, but ignores the social and cultural significance of tourism activities. As the reflection and result of social stratification, tourism consumption has the function of the segment in social status. From the paradigm of consumer culture, this research concentrates on tourists’ cultural capital, which is significant for understanding tourism activities in the role of taste distinction and social stratification. Distinction triggers the construction of cultural capital by tourists. Affected by time-space compression, body attachment and cultural identity, tourists have constructed cultural capital. This research provides a cultural sociological perspective for the understanding of Chinese tourists in the transition period and also provides some new ideas for tourism operators.

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© 2021, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Xiaolin Guo
AU  - Hongfan Mou
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021/08/09
TI  - A Research on Tourists’ Cultural Capital
BT  - Proceedings of the 2021 5th International Seminar on Education, Management and Social Sciences (ISEMSS 2021)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 930
EP  - 935
SN  - 2352-5398
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/assehr.k.210806.176
DO  - 10.2991/assehr.k.210806.176
ID  - Guo2021
ER  -