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Accepted Paper:

What values: short-term visit tours effectiveness among Chinese research universities' students  
Nanxi Kang (Beijing Normal University)

Paper short abstract:

When students getting into an unfamiliar country to study for a short period of time, one of the most difficult things is how to get relations with local forms. Within tourist encounters, they got reimagination of value which will guide their actions.

Paper long abstract:

In spite of a number of drivers for change in the pursuit of values in studying tour in higher education, the feelings of students themselves are still remain discussed not enough. Through an ethnographic study of the effectiveness of short-term visit tours among several participated students, this paper shows what they gain from the collision and fusion process of various cultures and societies. Students living in campus with almost same resources and knowledge but they are influenced by teachers, friends and families. According to formal and informal activities, academic and social interactions, students in "specific field" completed the transformation of their own values by recognizing and identifying numerous events and conversations. Students' attitude toward the consequent could be identified into two dimensions: tourists and learners. Tourists, who focus mainly at local living habits, enjoy structures of ancient buildings and bustling vegetable markets. They feel value from citizens. Learners, who ask complicated questions in foreign professors' lecture, get pleasure from sharing ideas and exchange useful information which will inspire further research. And thus comes to a combination in tourist ecologies, not only the two aspects, but also an understanding of local cultures. Tracing the virtue of visit tours, this paper calls for a methodical perspective on trip outcomes that are purposeful, good for future living, and benefit students themselves.

Panel P26
Tourist value: reconfiguring value and social relations in diverse tourism ecologies
  Session 1 Tuesday 3 December, 2019, -