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The Progress and Enlightenment of Memory Researches: A Tourism Experience Perspective

DENG Yongyong, WEI Xiangdong   

  1. School of Social Sciences, Soochow University, Suzhou 215123, China
  • Received:2022-03-23 Revised:2023-09-18 Online:2023-10-30 Published:2023-11-15

Abstract: Memory is not only an essential research object in the humanities and social sciences today but also strongly tied to our daily lives and societal evolution.Memory studies have steadily gained interest in tourism studies in recent years and have become a popular topic in tourism experience.This paper summarized the basic overview and related issues of memory research in tourism experience,and analyzed the memorable tourism experience,memory influencing factors,memory role,memory construction mechanism,and memory model,to demonstrate the development context and rich significance of memory research from the perspective of tourism experience.The studies on English literature is mostly in the realm of psychology,with emotional subjects in memory as the center,and have established a specific idea of “memorable tourism experience,” with research focusing on the theoretical guiding value,while that on Chinese literature are mainly based on the main-object construction of memory and external environmental elements,which is founded on memory theory research in the field of social culture.It summarized the research ideas,methods,and theories through a comparison of Chinese and English research literature,as well as the differences to form a consensus,which aims to reflect the basic trend of memory research in tourism experience,and provide experience reference and inspiration for follow-up research.

Key words: tourism experience, memory, memorable tourism experiences(MTEs), collective memory, tourism experience memory

CLC Number: 

  • F59

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