Facilitating sustainable tourism by endogenization: China as exemplar

To make contemporary Anglo-Western sustainable tourism discourse more responsive to non-Western contexts, we augment the generic content of the enlightened mass tourism model with crucial endogenous injections, using China as exemplar. Han Chinese cultural values as input are summarized as harmony i...

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Published in:Annals of tourism research 2020-03, Vol.81, p.102890, Article 102890
Main Authors: Weaver, David, Tang, Chuanzhong, Zhao, Yanzhi
Format: Article
Language:English
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China
Cultural relativism
Cultural values
Endogenization
Enlightened mass tourism
Sustainable tourism
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Summary:To make contemporary Anglo-Western sustainable tourism discourse more responsive to non-Western contexts, we augment the generic content of the enlightened mass tourism model with crucial endogenous injections, using China as exemplar. Han Chinese cultural values as input are summarized as harmony in all things toward creative transformation through parameters of collectivism, face, guanxi, self-cultivation, and embrace of opposites. Endogenous output considers the policy and power structure for achieving sustainability-related outcomes, in this instance for the better life of people, poverty alleviation and ecological civilization as embodied in the authoritative Report to the 19th National Congress of the Communist Party of China. The outcome is “endogenized” enlightened mass tourism as a framework more widely conducive to sustainability engagement in non-Western destinations. •Augments Eurocentric enlightened mass tourism with Chinese cultural injections.•Harmony among all things for creative transformation identified as core input.•Happiness, poverty alleviation and ecological civilization identified as core output.•Enlightened mass tourism with Chinese characteristics indicates endogenization theory.
ISSN:0160-7383
1873-7722
DOI:10.1016/j.annals.2020.102890