Research on Immersive Narratives in Digital Cultural Tourism Spaces
In the era of cultural digitalization,numerous cultural and tourism projects are embracing digital technology to create immersive experiences.The fusion of digital tools with cultural spaces has not only transformed tourism into a storytelling medium but also opened up a realm of rich immersive narrative expressions.Digital tourism projects combine cultural digitalization with on-site and online tourism by creating narratives and reshaping spaces centered around visitors.The immersive features of these projects include multimodal narrative symbols,the blending of narrative contexts,and the cross-domain experience of visitor practices.Narrative texts form the core of the expression system,while landscape symbols constitute the modular elements and interspaces between texts.Context serves to connect the narrative texts,and experiential practices ultimately build the overall explanatory system spanning spatial and temporal dimensions.The narrative organizational structure of digital tourism projects can be divided into three layers:the topographic layer,which denotes the physical setting where the story unfolds;the text layer,representing the spatiotemporal domain of action where the story is told;and the perspective layer,which encompasses the space from which the story is told,enabling viewers to blend their present surroundings with past memories to create a comprehensive field of vision.The narrative organizational levels of digital tourism spaces consist of symbol collections constructed for the world from the topographic layer,meaning constructions relying on narrative transportation from the spatiotemporal layer,and practice guidance based on viewpoint conversion from the perspective layer.By analyzing the narrative structure and immersion mechanisms,digital tourism projects can innovate their narrative expressions according to different immersive forms.Immersive exhibitions employ embodied spatial practices and use sensory interaction logic as narrative adhesives,reinforcing the viewer's sense of presence in a specific cultural context and enhancing sensory immersion.Immersive performances need to utilize narrative techniques and surrounding scene settings to anchor tourists in a virtual world,expanding linear narratives into story worlds and enhancing story immersion.Immersive districts can integrate offline physical spaces as part of the cross-media narrative carrier,use the interpretive power of real spaces to create intertextuality between narrative elements and co-created texts,endow places with richer symbolic meanings and enhancing imaginative immersion.The proposal of an immersive spatial narrative system provides a reference for the high-quality development of cultural and tourism integration in the context of digitalization.This shift has also facilitated the integration of culture and tourism.The integration of virtual and real elements and diverse narrative practices enables the full integration of local and online spaces,thereby generating richer social and cultural value through digital transformation in cultural and tourism projects.
Cultural digitizationSpatial narrativeImmersive experienceIntegration of culture and tourism