What are the basic characteristics of folk tourists?

Folklore tourism belongs to the category of cultural tourism and has the characteristics of mystery, participation, bitterness and joy. Therefore, folk tourists often show obvious cultural background characteristics and behavioral orientations when conducting exotic folk tourism activities.

(1) Cultural background characteristics

Folk tourists participate in folk tourism activities not only to experience the strangeness and beauty of exotic natural scenery, but also to be influenced by the peculiar and mysterious traditions of local residents Attracted by folk culture. They visit villages and villages, walk along streets and alleys, observe folk houses, see folk customs, experience people's sentiments, and integrate into the cultural atmosphere of foreign folk customs that are completely different from their own cultural backgrounds. Naturally, they will make comparisons and judgments between their own culture and foreign cultures. The standard for this kind of comparison and judgment is the cultural values ??of folk tourists themselves. For example, when Japanese tourists look at the Longji rice terraces in Guangxi, they will compare them with Japan's paddy rice farming methods. What folk tourists hope is not only to improve their cultural literacy and supplement their knowledge of folk culture, but also to break away from their original living environment and cultural perspective and view their self-worth and living conditions from a new perspective. Generally speaking, people who have a strong interest in folk culture generally have received a relatively high level of school education, or have relatively special life experiences, or have relatively professional interests and hobbies. Such tourists often have a strong desire for knowledge and curiosity. Once stimulated by cultural differences and special situations, they can't help but reflect on themselves, triggering various concerns about life, history, human beings, wealth, relationships, and Disputes, distress, understanding and thinking about different lifestyles.

(2) Behavioral Orientation Characteristics

Whether it is out of curiosity or out of need for investigation, folk tourists are full of all kinds of exotic and colorful exotic customs. Strong curiosity and desire to explore. They may visit and understand, ask for records, live with ordinary people in their homes, or directly experience other people’s ordinary and realistic life attitudes. This is a behavioral orientation that comes from being infected by foreign folk culture. Folk culture is originally a way of life and behavioral logic of ordinary people. This kind of lifestyle and behavioral logic is something that people who are accustomed to living a competitive and tense modern life do not have. It is a beautiful value worthy of people's respect and admiration. Folk tourism often has a strong flavor of escapism, paradise and dreamland. This color may be inherent in the local residential culture itself, or it may be transformed by the empathy of tourists; it may be a magnificent brocade, a paradise, an utopia, a utopia, a Garden of Eden, or a Shangri-La. It may also be primitive tribes’ ancient villages in the mountains, former villages, or old streets of ancient cities. In short, folk tourism destinations are generally beautiful, different from modern cities, and alternative warm life scenes. When folk tourists understand, appreciate, participate in and experience this "beautiful" and "alternative" life culture, they often have certain good psychological preparations and psychological hints. In order to pursue fresh, exciting and dreamlike feelings, even if they encounter this or that kind of unaccustomedness, they can take it calmly and sometimes even enjoy it. Folk tourists pay attention to attitude. As a compensation for the "congenital deficiencies" of folk tourism reception hardware, they pay more attention to the beautiful human attitudes of local people. There is a way. "Look at the sky when you go out, and look at your face when you come in." If the host is enthusiastic, sincere, and thoughtful, and gives them a chance to "realize their dreams," they will be very satisfied even if the food, accommodation, and sanitary conditions are limited.

Folklore tourists refer to those who temporarily travel to a country or region where they do not permanently live for the main purpose of viewing, understanding, appreciating, and participating in the folk customs of a different place that are different from the tourist's own cultural form. anyone. Among them, those who stay in the local area for more than 24 hours are called "long-distance folk tourists"; those who stay in the local area for less than 24 hours are called "short-distance folk tourists"; those whose travel scope is limited to their own country are called "domestic folk tourists" "; Those whose tourism activities involve other countries are called "international folk tourists". By participating in folk tourism activities, folk tourists can personally experience the traditional folk life of the people in the tourist destination, experience the local traditional folk culture, appreciate the unique lifestyle, ideology and aesthetic taste of the local people, and realize self-reflection and self-confirmation and the purpose of traveling to improve yourself.

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