TY - JOUR
KW - Cultural tourism
KW - Intangible cultural heritage
KW - Martial arts
KW - Tai chi
KW - Tourism
KW - UNESCO
AU - S. Raimondo
AU - L. Rea
AU - W. Yong-Shun
AB - This essay analyses the key concepts enunciated by the international literature on martial arts tourism – and of the even broader category of cultural tourism. It combines notes produced by a participant observation and the images produced by the first author himself. The result is the illustration of a particular case of martial arts tourism included in the decade 2009-2018 and focused on Chenjiagou (Chen village), a village in inland China (Wen county, Henan province, People s Republic of China). Here tourists – attracted by the peculiar spirit of the place, genius loci, expressed in the landscape and in the local customs and reinforced by recurring or occasional celebrations – are contributing to the local economic development and urban improvement, by creating an informal planetary-scale network through the common interest in the martial art of taijiquan.
DO - 10.18002/rama.v17i1.7029
M1 - 1
N1 - Publisher: University of Leon
N2 - This essay analyses the key concepts enunciated by the international literature on martial arts tourism – and of the even broader category of cultural tourism. It combines notes produced by a participant observation and the images produced by the first author himself. The result is the illustration of a particular case of martial arts tourism included in the decade 2009-2018 and focused on Chenjiagou (Chen village), a village in inland China (Wen county, Henan province, People s Republic of China). Here tourists – attracted by the peculiar spirit of the place, genius loci, expressed in the landscape and in the local customs and reinforced by recurring or occasional celebrations – are contributing to the local economic development and urban improvement, by creating an informal planetary-scale network through the common interest in the martial art of taijiquan.
SP - 50
EP - 74
TI - Taijiquan, genius loci and tourism: a participant observation about Chenjiagou
UR - https://www.scopus.com/inward/record.uri?eid=2-s2.0-85125517495&doi=10.18002%2frama.v17i1.7029&partnerID=40&md5=45e8807a41b35e5d683e8c1128e0cbe8
VL - 17
SN - 21740747 (ISSN)
ER -