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Abstract
It is necessary to examine cultural space in tourism destinations, including World Heritage Sites, for the long-term sustainable development of these destinations. Existing studies on cultural space mainly concentrate on the conceptual and textural elements. However, factors influencing the evolution of cultural space still need to be explored for the sustainable development of tourism destinations. Taking Mount Wuyi, a World Heritage Site in China, as a case study, this research examines the evolutionary trend of its tea cultural space. Specifically, this study investigates indicators that influence cultural space and explores its evolutionary mechanism. The vector autoregressive model was used to analyze Mount Wuyi’s tea cultural space evolution from 1996 to 2017. The results reveal that culture had the highest overall development in the tea-space evolution; the market supply and demand were the strongest and most enduring exogenous forces. Moreover, the evolution of tea cultural space demonstrated a multi-stranded interactive evolution model. This study not only enriches the understanding of cultural space evolution in tourism destinations but also offers suggestions for the sustainable development and management of World Heritage Sites.
Highlights
Cultural space is one of the fastest-growing and most-valued tourist attractions in a destination nowadays [1]
Based on the literature gaps discussed above, this study aims to explore the evolution of tea cultural space in a World Heritage Site by focusing on three textural elements of cultural space including spatiality, culture, and economy, as well as three external driving forces including market supply and demand, government management, and cultural capital
From 2007, the average of the overall score of the evolution reached 8%, scoring 13.3% in 2016 and scoring highest, at 14.8%, in 2017, which means that tea cultural space in Mount Wuyi has been growing very fast since 2007
Summary
Cultural space is one of the fastest-growing and most-valued tourist attractions in a destination nowadays [1]. According to Oppermann [2], tourists favor rare and specialized local cultural resources. Turning these cultural resources into cultural space is conducive to the protection and utilization of these unique tourism resources and the sustainable development of the destination. In 1998, in its Proclamation of Masterpieces of the Oral and Intangible Heritage of Humanity, the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declared cultural space a place that involves “traditional and popular” cultural activities. Cultural space has long been defined by anthropologists as the regular “image space” for local residents to express folk culture [4]
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