Research on the dimensions of the place meaning of industrial heritage sites as tourist destinations:An inquiry from the tourists'perspective
Place meaning reflects"the value and significance of the environment to the individual".The transformation of industrial heritage sites into tourist destination brings about the change of the original place meaning.This paper takes the Beamish Museum as the research object and uses tourists'comments from Tripadvisor as the research text.Informed by the constructive grounded theory,the research adopts the coding technique to identify the dimensions of the place meaning of the industrial heritage site,and to construct the dimension model of the place meaning.The study found that the place meaning of industrial heritage sites is formed from three interactive levels of"self","society"and"environment",and the place meaning is composed of inherent material meaning,instrumental significance,social and cultural meaning and identity expressive meaning from the outside to the inside.This paper constructs the model of place meaning of industrial heritage sites and provides support for the theoretical research and managerial practices of industrial heritage sites in the future.
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