Dualistic Cultural Characterization of “Tile-Cat” under Tourist Gaze in Ethnic Tourism

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10.2991/icmess-14.2014.28How to use a DOI?

Keywords

Cultural Characterization, Tile-Cat, Tourist Gaze, Ethnic Tourism, Symbol

Abstract

As a tourist gaze object "Tile-Cat" is the symbol in the tourism consumption system, has the unique tourism market symbol value, includes self expression and symbol value which represents a mascot, sacred item, totem, natural idol in ethnic area and symbolizes the medium of communication between tourists and ethnic society. In internalization ethnic society "Tile-Cats" has a range of symbolic significances based their culture and national-identity and in externalization it communicates a range of information with tourists and their societies, such as change of tourists’ status, roles, self-expression and self-identity.

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© 2014, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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BT  - Proceedings of the 2014 International Conference on Management, Education and Social Science
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