Honggang Xu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3857556 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Honggang Xu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Honggang |
| FAMILY NAME | Xu |
| SIGNATURE | XU H |
| AFFILIATIONS | Sun Yat-sen University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1354-6654 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 106 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 510 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 105 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 13 |
Understanding inter-city travelers’ weekend daily mobilities, noise, and psycho-physiological stress: Evidence from residents with cross-city work-residence arrangements
Totalizing drone gaze in tourism contexts
How tourists cycle around Qinghai Lake: A perspective from tourist mobility justice
Experience is not only based on individuals but also related to social structure. To obtain certain travel goals, cycling tourists on public roads always endure unsatisfactory experiences because they must use a transportation-oriented road system. Whether and how the transport system affects the tourism experience is still understudied. This study views experience as structured and proposes a tourist mobility justice approach to investigate this…
From phygital experience to virtual travel in cultural heritage destination: The role of tourist inspiration
The growing popularity of phygital travel, which blends virtual and physical destinations into a unique experience, has sparked discussions on the phygital tourist experience. However, the impact of the phygital tourist experience on tourist behaviour remains underexplored. Therefore, this study aims to investigate how the phygital tourist experience influences tourist inspiration and, in turn, behavioural intention. Drawing on the transmission m…
Restructuring human-animal relations in rural tourism destinations
Various animals are integral inhabitants of rural areas. Together with humans and other nonhuman entities, they constitute the countryside. Rural tourism development is reshaping these components and their interrelations; however, previous studies on tourism-driven rural restructuring have largely focussed on humans while paying limited attention to animals and their agency. Drawing on a relational perspective, this study adopts multispecies ethn…
Making continuity: How multiple production networks sustain Huimo as an intangible cultural heritage
The continuity of craft-based intangible cultural heritage faces increasing challenges as production practices shift and diversify in response to contemporary demand. Tourism is often used as potential to realise the continuity but often discussed as singularity. Based on Actor–Network Theory, this study examines how continuity is sustained within multiple production networks. Drawing on multi-sited fieldwork, including interviews and observation…
Tourism gentrification through the eyes of tourists: Conceptualization, scale development, and validation
Exploring literary texts as tourists’ prior knowledge: A schema perspective
We Are Friends: Toward Working Holiday Experiences in a Tourist Destination
Previous findings on how to effectively manage work-to-tourism conflict are not applicable for some tourists combining work with tourism such as working holiday tourists (WHTs). Using a framework built on work/family border theory, this study explores how WHTs experience work-to-tourism conflict and manage the conflict to achieve desired travel experiences. Qualitative research was conducted with WHTs in Dali, China. Findings reveal that the WHTs…
Capturing mobile, situational, and multi-dimensional tourist experience: An integrated approach
Inspired by the critical and mobility turns in tourism studies, this article provides a conceptualisation of understanding tourist experiences on the move, along with an integrated methodology for tracking mobile tourist experiences. It argues that tourist experience is mobile and situational. Multi-dimensional aspects of tourist experience evolve and interact during their journey. Based on recent theoretical and methodological advancements, this…
Host–guest interactions and senior residents’ well-being in rural tourism: A case study of Qiaoxiang village in China
As the global population ages, research on the well-being of seniors in tourism has gained traction. While much scholarly attention has been paid to the well-being of senior tourists, the well-being of senior residents in host communities remains underexplored. Adopting continuity theory and PERMA model of well-being, this study investigates how host–guest interactions influence senior residents’ well-being in a rural tourism context. Qualitative…
Only good for taking photos?”: Understanding the production and evolution of Wanghong tourism destinations in the digital era
The prevalence of social media and smartphones has transformed photography and online photo-sharing into a central element of contemporary tourist experiences. This study contends that social media photos increasingly exert significant agency, influencing not only tourist experiences but also the transformation of tourist destinations themselves. Employing actor-network theory as an analytical framework, this research investigates the role of pho…
Disentangling the multiplicity of waste through relational ontology: Solid waste management in rural tourism destinations
Environmental communication in wildlife tourism: Narrative Framing and Emotion Effect on the Willingness to Pay for a Destination
Finding an appropriate environmental communication format to enhance tourists' willingness to pay (WTP) for wildlife tourism destinations is a cost-effective and accessible method to mitigate human–wildlife conflict. However, there is limited research on this topic. This study addresses the critical issue of effectively communicating environmental values to tourists. By incorporating framing effect theory, narrative transportation theory, and aff…
Understanding sensescapes and restorative effects of nature-based destinations: A Mixed-Methods Approach
Nature is restorative for people suffering from stress and mental fatigues. While studies advocate to investigate restorative effects of nature from a multi-sensory perspective, this study also reveals mechanisms of how various aspects of sensescapes differentially influence visitors' restorative experience in nature, especially with visitors' different degrees of reduced outdoor exposure during the Covid-19 pandemic. Using a mixed-methods approa…
The resilience of coastal urban destinations to typhoons: Insights From a System–agent–institution Framework
Collective actions and crisis adaptation of a rural tourism community
Social learning for disaster-resilient urban destinations: Dual-Path Knowledge Co-Production and Bridging Organizations
Reconstructing home in touristic places: An Enabling Process for Poverty Alleviation Migrants
Understanding tourist experiences of sounds at nature-based destinations: From a relational perspective
This study incorporates a relational approach to investigating the dynamics and complexity of how tourists interact with diverse sounds as they are mobile while visiting nature-based destinations. Using a mixed-methods approach, this study combined in-situ photos and videos, real-time portable sound sensing, GPS tracking, wristband wearing, and in-depth interviews among 34 participants during their one-day trip to Mount Huangshan, China. The stud…
Craft making: Traditional and creative trajectories in Jingdezhen, China
Debates surrounding craft‐making have long centred on the intricate relationship among the head, hand and the materials. While studies have typically differentiated between traditional craft and creative crafts by focusing on specific aspect of the relationship, the co‐existence and interdependence of these elements remained largely unexplored. This research focuses on ceramic craft making in Jingdezhen, where traditional and creative crafts coex…
Sensory therapeutic assemblages in tourism: Qi and the health of snowbirds in China
Experiencing therapeutic soundscapes in rural tourism destinations
Material matters: Understanding 'Local Food' Through a Material-Semiotic Approach
Local food' plays a critical role in tourism destinations by attracting tourists and enhancing their experiences, thus indicating the need for researchers to examine how destinations can establish local food. Research has focused on the social and cultural construction of local food, but there have been limited inquiries into how the materiality of food is intertwined with human practices in the process. This perspective has hindered new insights…
Re-conceptualizing the ideal homes in rural China: An actor-network theory approach
With the shift in relational ontology, the concept of home is interpreted as a dynamic and relational process, in which both human and non-human elements need to be valued. Adopting ANT (actor-network theory) as an approach, this article reveals the interactive relationship and translation process between urban-rural migrants and rural heterogeneous actors (including farmland, landscapes, local people, means of subsistence, and technological faci…
Producing an ideal village: Imagined rurality, tourism and rural gentrification in China
A structural model of liminal experience in tourism
Lifestyle mobility in China: Context, Perspective and Prospects
A transition in theoretical orientation from migration to mobility in the study of geographical and social movement in contemporary China highlights and resonates with significant political, social and cultural transformations in the past 40 years. Changes in mobility patterns also reveal a shift from production-led peasant worker migration, which has dominated international academic studies on China in the past few decades with a focus on workin…
Creative destruction: The commodification of industrial heritage in Nanfeng Kiln District, China
The potential value of industrial heritage for developing tourism has attracted increasing attention worldwide. In China, there is an emerging trend of the reuse of industrial heritage sites to develop industrial heritage tourism as 'creative parks'. Studies have found that over-commodification is occurring while protection of the historical and cultural value of contemporary industrial heritage is neglected during the process of redevelopment. H…
Influence of place-based senses of distinctiveness, continuity, self-esteem and self-efficacy on residents' attitudes toward tourism
Moving toward gender and tourism geographies studies
Tourism itself is a product of gendered societies, and its processes are gendered in their construction, presentation, and consumption (Pritchard & Morgan, 2000). Two years ago, Figueroa-Domecq, Pr
Understanding seasonal mobilities, health and wellbeing to Sanya, China
Developing Destination Loyalty: The Case of Hainan Island
Seasonal mobility and well-being of older people: The case of ‘Snowbirds’ to Sanya, China
Reconceptualising home in seasonal Chinese tourism mobilities
Therapeutic landscapes and longevity: Wellness tourism in Bama
Rethinking authenticity in the implementation of China's heritage conservation: The case of Hongcun Village
Authenticity is a constructive concept and the core principle for protection of cultural heritage, but it is also a controversial issue, along with its practice in different geographical and cultural contexts. Both the heritage management system and its authenticity principles are not indigenous, but were developed in western society and exported from western countries. As a result, conflicts arise with its implementation and therefore often lead…
Health and local food consumption in cross-cultural tourism mobility: An Assemblage Approach
A healthy diet is vital to sustaining tourist mobility. In cross-cultural mobility, tourists must face strange local eating environments in tourism place and the complex health problems that these environments may cause. Existing research on tourist food consumption and health mainly addresses health from a biomedical perspective by emphasizing food nutrition and hygiene. We adopt an assemblage approach to understanding health as a relational out…
Desert as therapeutic space: Cultural interpretation of embodied experience in sand therapy in Xinjiang, China
Wellness tourism and spatial stigma: A case study of Bama, China
Guides' handling of multiple roles in interactions with tourists: The prism of impression management
Ancient poetry in contemporary Chinese tourism
Behind Buying: The Chinese Gaze on European Commodities
Europe has become a popular destination for Mainland Chinese in recent years and shopping in Europe is essential and very exciting to most of them. While previous research has mostly comprised descriptive marketing studies, and a few have interpreted the shopping behavior of this emerging market from the traditional Chinese culture perspective, this paper presents a dynamic sociological approach to interpret the deeper mindset behind the Chinese …
Sensory therapeutic assemblages in tourism: Qi and the health of snowbirds in China
Health tourism destinations as therapeutic landscapes: Understanding the health perceptions of senior seasonal migrants
A Cultural Perspective of Health and Wellness Tourism in China
Health and wellness tourism has experienced fast growth during the last two decades. The aging population and severe pollution in China make the wellness industry even more attractive. However, there has been limited academic research in this area. This paper aims to explore the key features of Chinese wellness tourism through a case study in Bama, Guangxi Autonomous Region. The paper argues that the behaviours of Chinese wellness tourists are gr…
Tourism geography research in China: Institutional Perspectives on Community Tourism Development
The explosive growth of tourism in China since the 1980s has generated attendant interest in tourism research in the country, among researchers both in the mainland and outside. The dialogue between the two communities (domestic and international researchers) is also growing, but is as yet still limited, with insufficient contributions from Chinese mainland tourism researchers to the international academic world. China provides a rich field for e…
Understanding sensescapes and restorative effects of nature-based destinations: A Mixed-Methods Approach
Nature is restorative for people suffering from stress and mental fatigues. While studies advocate to investigate restorative effects of nature from a multi-sensory perspective, this study also reveals mechanisms of how various aspects of sensescapes differentially influence visitors' restorative experience in nature, especially with visitors' different degrees of reduced outdoor exposure during the Covid-19 pandemic. Using a mixed-methods approa…
The power dynamics in local–tourist interactions
Place attachment and mobility in the context of job‐induced multilocal dwelling—The case of China
This study aims to understand the relationship between place attachment and mobility in a job‐induced multilocal dwelling context. Multilocal dwelling entails a long‐distance commute and having another residence in addition to the primary domestic one for job‐related purposes. From the mobility perspective, this study posits that a place should be understood as dynamic and relational, and place attachment as networked and flexible. Relying on int…
Distortions in Tourism Development in the Dali Autonomous Region, China
This paper presents a tourism destination development sequence for Dali, Yunnan Province, China. The development of Dali highlights limits in the power of the local government as the lead stakeholder, which took a top-down approach to economic development. The government sought to address increasing control of the tourism sector by external tour operators through increasing its own control of local tourism attractions. This approach has been only…
Government intervention in investment by Chinese listed companies that have diversified into tourism
Tourism Real Estate Development as a Policy Tool for Urban Tourism: A Case Study of Dali and Lijiang, China
Tourist towns are a new and extraordinary form of urbanization in the peripheral regions of China, especially for regions where distinctive tourist attractions are located. Tourism urbanization is occurring in China due to high pressure for urbanization and because real estate has become a major development force. This article investigates the interconnected consequences of tourism development, tourism-related leisure property development, and th…
A Cultural Perspective on Wildlife Tourism in China
Wildlife tourism is based on interactions between humans and wildlife. Although it is well understood that differences exist in the relationship in different cultures, existing management models are often based on a scientific approach rather than a cultural approach or an approach that integrates these perspectives. This study concentrates on the social and cultural factors affecting wildlife tourism management through a case study of Monkey Isl…
Effective environmental interpretation at Chinese natural attractions: The need for an aesthetic approach
In western society since the 1970s, interpretation has played an important role in improving tourists’ appreciation of the natural environment, developing their environmental attitudes and facilitating the adoption of environmentally sensitive behaviour. In China, interpretation of natural attractions is a more recent phenomenon and a largely cognitive approach has been taken, focusing on the presentation of scientific information. This paper que…
Religious food as a tourism attraction: The roles of Buddhist temple food in Western tourist experience
Recently, the needs and interests in local food-related tourism research are growing as the local food plays an important role in overall tourist experience and destination branding. However, research on the religious food as a culinary heritage has received relatively little attention and particularly an understanding of tourists' religious food consumption in a tourist destination has been little discussed in the literature of tourism research.…
Developing Destination Loyalty: The Case of Hainan Island
A Cultural Perspective of Health and Wellness Tourism in China
Health and wellness tourism has experienced fast growth during the last two decades. The aging population and severe pollution in China make the wellness industry even more attractive. However, there has been limited academic research in this area. This paper aims to explore the key features of Chinese wellness tourism through a case study in Bama, Guangxi Autonomous Region. The paper argues that the behaviours of Chinese wellness tourists are gr…
The role of local government and the private sector in China's tourism industry
Impact of personality traits and involvement on prior knowledge
Rethinking authenticity in the implementation of China's heritage conservation: The case of Hongcun Village
Authenticity is a constructive concept and the core principle for protection of cultural heritage, but it is also a controversial issue, along with its practice in different geographical and cultural contexts. Both the heritage management system and its authenticity principles are not indigenous, but were developed in western society and exported from western countries. As a result, conflicts arise with its implementation and therefore often lead…
Tourism geography research in China: Institutional Perspectives on Community Tourism Development
The explosive growth of tourism in China since the 1980s has generated attendant interest in tourism research in the country, among researchers both in the mainland and outside. The dialogue between the two communities (domestic and international researchers) is also growing, but is as yet still limited, with insufficient contributions from Chinese mainland tourism researchers to the international academic world. China provides a rich field for e…
Tourist experience of nature in contemporary China: A cultural divergence approach
The study of Chinese nature tourism is a relatively independent research realm which adopts a cultural perspective to study the tourist experience. Chinese tourists are regarded as being accustomed to experiencing nature through associating it with high culture such as landscape poetry and paintings, calligraphy, and so on, and the impacts of traditional popular culture are seldom addressed. Yet, for the majority of Chinese, popular culture has s…
Behind Buying: The Chinese Gaze on European Commodities
Europe has become a popular destination for Mainland Chinese in recent years and shopping in Europe is essential and very exciting to most of them. While previous research has mostly comprised descriptive marketing studies, and a few have interpreted the shopping behavior of this emerging market from the traditional Chinese culture perspective, this paper presents a dynamic sociological approach to interpret the deeper mindset behind the Chinese …
Influence of place-based senses of distinctiveness, continuity, self-esteem and self-efficacy on residents' attitudes toward tourism
Tourist Experience in Lijiang—The Capital of Yanyu
Gender relationships play an important role in the tourism experience. Modern leisure tourism offers people a chance to escape from their daily life and seek sexual encounters or intimate relationships while traveling. This paper explores tourist experiences of their encounters through an empirical study on the Old Town of Lijiang, a leisure and romantic destination that has earned the reputation of “the capital of Yanyu”. Data on gender interact…
Culture Differences and Challenges in Localization of Senior Executives of International Luxury Hotels in China
With the rapid increase of international hotels in China, the importance of talent localization has widely been recognized, although empirical research is still limited. This paper explores the current situation of talent localization of international luxury hotels in China and its influencing factors from a cultural perspective through in-depth interviews with executives and senior managers of hotel associations, luxury hotels, and hotel owners.…
Localization of Senior Managers of International Luxury Hotels in China: The Current Situation and Influencing Factors
With the rapid development of China's hotel industry, international brand hotels have been expanding rapidly in recent years, which has led to a great demand for hotel talents, especially senior managers. This paper presents an up-to-date understanding of talent localization with respect to international luxury hotels in China through in-depth interviews with executives and senior managers, and it aims to explore the current situation and influen…
The growth of literary places in ancient town tourism destinations: Based on the theories of Bourdieu, Danto and Dickie
Literary literature and tourism are closely connected, but the research on that connection is limited. Literary tourism spots are no longer just the places where historical accidents happened or were sites of a writer's birth or death, they can be any other places which have actual or even imaged linkages with the authors or their works. Based on Bourdieu's 1992 field theory and the ‘Artworld’ described by Danto [1964. The artworld. The Journal o…
Ancient poetry in contemporary Chinese tourism
Reading, tourism, and geography consumption in literary places
Literature and geography are closely related in the worlds of consumption and mobility, and literature is often used as a resource for the tourism industry. The reading and consumption of literature, therefore, are related to visitation of a real place, and the roles of readers and tourists merge. The case of one literary tourism site, the San Mao Teahouse in the ancient town of Zhouzhuang in China, is selected to explain the complexity of readin…
Lifestyle mobility in China: Context, Perspective and Prospects
A transition in theoretical orientation from migration to mobility in the study of geographical and social movement in contemporary China highlights and resonates with significant political, social and cultural transformations in the past 40 years. Changes in mobility patterns also reveal a shift from production-led peasant worker migration, which has dominated international academic studies on China in the past few decades with a focus on workin…
Too Much of a Good Thing? The Economic Impact of Hotel Investment in Hainan
Hotel investment is assumed to provide many positive benefits to the local economy. Given strong tourism growth in China, the impacts of large increases in new hotel investment in China warrants further investigation. A regional computable general equilibrium model was developed to empirically examine the economic impact of large hotel investment in the Hainan province, China. The net economic impact of hotel investment on gross domestic product …
Influence of Place Identity on Residents’ Attitudes to Dark Tourism
Underpinning the importance of place identity, this study investigates its role on residents’ attitude to dark tourism. Deploying a survey of post-disaster residents in a town in Southwest China, the current study indicates that place-based self-esteem and self-efficacy are salient in influencing residents’ perceptions of tourism impacts and support for dark tourism. Further, place identity’s other two principles—distinctiveness and continuity—ar…
Self-development of Chinese Overseas Students in their European Travels
Departing from a sociological perspective, this paper adopts a cognitive framework of ‘three-forms’ of Chinese self to analyze the question of how contemporary Chinese overseas students develop themselves during their European travels. Through two rounds of in-depth interviews and data analysis, we find three forms of self-development among contemporary Chinese overseas students when they travel in European countries, which are the development of…
Tourism (81 works) · Geography (68 works) · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research (56 works) · Business (52 works) · Sociology (52 works) · China (47 works) · Political science (41 works) · Psychology (35 works) · Economic geography (29 works) · Economics (27 works)