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Special Topic: The Explorations and Prospects of Theory Building
Tourism and Community Research : From Livelihood to Wellbeing
SU Mingming
Tourism and Hospitality Prospects, 2021, 5(6): 1-23.   https://doi.org/10.12054/lydk.bisu.184
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Heavily relying on the community, tourism development brings opportunities and challenges to the sustainable development of the community. With the rapid development of tourism globally, research on tourism destination communities has been continuously extended both in theory and in practice covering multi-dimensional aspects including community participation, community perception, community livelihood, community empowerment and so on. The successful completion of national poverty alleviation targets in 2020 marks China's new journey to a socialist modern country. Achieving a better life for the Chinese people has become one of the important national development goals, community happiness, feeling of achievements and security have become the key words of the new era. Despite the effectiveness of the sustainable livelihood framework in evaluating the dynamic evolution of community livelihood system, previous studies also demonstrated limitations of such framework in representing the diversified needs of community development in tourism destinations. Therefore, there is a need for a comprehensive framework to analyze community sustainable development and the construction of a better life in the process of tourism development from theoretical and practical aspects. This paper proposes that, with the ability to reflect the multi-dimensional needs of communities, the community wellbeing framework has high research potential and importance in understanding community and tourism interactions in the new era.

From Rurality to Post Rurality: Theoretical Prospects of Rural Tourism
LI Zhifei, WU Jinchao, ZHANG Chenchen
Tourism and Hospitality Prospects, 2021, 5(6): 24-42.   https://doi.org/10.12054/lydk.bisu.181
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Rural geography puts forward the definition of rural with rurality. Tourism geography thinks that rurality is the basis of rural tourism. However, with the development of urbanization and the change of tourists’ demand, rurality is losing and deconstructing. Does the loss of rurality mean the end? Do we need to return to (restore) the rurality or enter a new rurality (post rurality)? Based on the existing domestic and international literature, combined with the background of rural tourism development, this paper proposes to reconstruct the rurality——post rurality, and tentatively constructs six dimensions of post rurality: rural “new immigration”, rural “re-localization”, cultural urbanization, living to dwelling, urban-rural dual opposition to urban-rural continuum, community participation to community building. At the same time, based on the rurality index and the six dimensions of post rurality, this paper tentatively puts forward the indicators that should be considered in the post rurality index (PRI), including floating population, tourist satisfaction, tourism employment, modernity of residence, tourism activation of rural intangible cultural heritage, community governance structure of new able villagers, welfare localization, etc. The proposal of post rurality has theoretical and practical significance for the development of rural tourism theory and the optimization of rural tourism governance structure.

Research Paper
Hosts’ Future Sharing Behavior in the Sharing Economy: The Perspective of Risk Decision Making
GU Huimin, LEI Ming, WANG Jing, ZHANG Yingying
Tourism and Hospitality Prospects, 2021, 5(6): 43-65.   https://doi.org/10.12054/lydk.bisu.183
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As an important part of sharing economy, sharing accommodation is playing a more and more important part in satisfying consumers’ personalized needs of accommodation. Previous researches have focused on the consumers’ intention to participate in sharing accommodation, while little is known about the intention and influencing factors of hosts. Participation in sharing accommodation is a kind of risky behavior, thus, based on the dual-process model of risk decision making and information processing psychology, this article analyzed the influences of external attitude (risk attitude) and internal emotion (subjective wellbeing) on future sharing behavior and the mediating effect of social cognition (social distance) with 312 valid samples collected by questionnaire method. The results revealed that the host’s risk attitude and wellbeing were positively related to sharing behavior respectively; risk attitude was negatively related to social distance; social distance was negatively related to sharing behavior, and played a mediating role in the relationship between risk attitude and sharing behavior and the relationship between wellbeing and sharing behavior respectively. This article promotes the understanding of hosts’ participation in sharing accommodation from the perspective of risky decision making, and makes some suggestions for the host, platform and government to promote the development of sharing accommodation.

An Exploratory Study on Tourists’ Tri-dimensional Experience from the Perspective of Embodiment : The See Again Series as an Example
WU Xinyang, LIANG Xuecheng, ZHAO Yuan
Tourism and Hospitality Prospects, 2021, 5(6): 66-83.   https://doi.org/10.12054/lydk.bisu.177
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With the rapid development of cultural and tourism performing arts and tourists’ pursuit of tourism experience, the tourism experience of performing arts tourism field has attracted more and more attention from the academic and industrial circles. Based on the perspective of embodied theory, this study explores the connotation and dimension of tri-dimensional experience in See Again series tourism resorts through the network text data. We draws the following basic conclusions: (1) From the perspective of embodiment in See Again series tourism field, tourist experience is identified and explored from three stages:physical environment experience, situational experience and artistic conception experience. We put forward the theoretical framework of the tri-dimensional tourism experience. Physical environment experience pays attention to the external shape,situation experience emphasizes spatial narration and artistic conception experience focuses on inner feeling and spiritual feeling. Finally, tourists form the spiritual resonance and the emotion consensus, realizing their pursuit of true nature in the combination of external image and internal emotion of tourism field. (2) The physical environment experience is analyzed in detail from the five sensory organs of vision,hearing,touch,smell and taste. The situation experience and artistic conception experience are elaborated by referring to the original text of tourists, and the specific content of tourists’ tri-dimensional experience is explored. The above research conclusions are of significant value to the planning and development of cultural tourism performing arts and the deep exploration of tourism experience.

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