Abstract
As a unique unit in the social space, the group of tourists explores exotic natural and cultural environments in order to better understand the space which is strange to them and seek delightful personal travel experience. In this chapter, we integrated three studies on travelers’ perception toward city space (also known as tourists’ city space image) to introduce research designs of relevant research on city spaces in China. Meanwhile, all the three studies used user generated contents from social media as raw data. With the popularity of social media (known as “We Media, or citizen journalism”), tourists are more likely to share their space experiences of cities by bloggers, twitters in the forms of texts, pictures, videos etc. We Media channels and contents can be regarded as a new type of information besides the official and professional media. Based on these data, the three studies examined tourists’ perceived images of city center, historical community and traditional water town of Shanghai. These tourists’ evaluations are helpful for city planning on space uses and public services and provides insightful suggestions for local governments to optimize social space planning in city and rural areas.
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Gao, J., Ma, J., Li, J., Wang, L. (2020). Studies on Tourists’ City Space Images. In: Ye, X., Lin, H. (eds) Spatial Synthesis. Human Dynamics in Smart Cities. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-52734-1_22
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