The Nine Safeties

How Inexperienced Tourists Manage the Strangeness of China

Dados Bibliográficos

ID12974331
AutoresBob Mckercher (0000-0001-7451-1266, Hong Kong Polytechnic University, autor correspondente), Sau Lai Lui (Chinese University of Hong Kong)
Ano2013
Volume9
Fascículo4
Páginas381-394
Data de publicação2013-09-11
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of China Tourism Research (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1938-8160 • E-ISSN: 1938-8179
EditoraTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/19388160.2013.839408
OpenAlexW1594989444
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas39

Tourism can be an intimidating activity, especially for inexperienced tourists who are entering a culturally distant destination. They may encounter such extreme culture shock that the quality of experience can be affected. To cope with that, the literature suggests tourists envelop themselves in an environmental bubble of familiarity to reduce the level of strangeness. In practice, the process must occur rapidly, and if the person is inexperienced, often without the benefits of a known context to inform them how to do so. This paper reports on a range of strangeness reduction strategies developed by a group of mostly inexperienced Canadian tourists who were making their first pleasure trip to China. Three sources of environmental bubble were identified that resulted in the development of “Nine Safeties.”

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