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Podcast: Tourism Geographies Podcast
Episode: Place agency and visitor hybridity in place-making processes at sacred heritage sites
Description: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/pdf/10.1080/14616688.2024.2443897AbstractThis paper investigates the relational nature of place-making at sacred heritage sites, taking Kyoto, Japan, as a case study to analyse how domestic tourists construct meaning in interaction with the spatial environment. Based on 11 semi-structured online interviews with Japanese spiritual tourists, an in-depth exploration of participants’ interactions with and co-construction of sacred spaces was conducted. The analysis centres on two themes. First, visitors embody fluid, overlapping roles that blend secular and sacred motivations, moving beyond fixed categories of insider or outsider. These hybrid roles reflect th...