Literature Review and Survey: Tourist Behaviour and Interaction Report

This report, submitted by Shreeram Khinju for the TRM20001 unit on Tourist Behaviour and Interaction, presents a literature review and survey focused on a tourism attraction. The report begins with an executive summary highlighting the author's personal experience and the appeal of rural tourism. It explores the motivations behind travel, including the need for regressive behavior and social interaction, using the example of a visit to Wukan village. The literature review discusses the simple life in rural areas, the importance of social interaction, and the benefits of connecting with nature. The methodology involves face-to-face interviews, and the findings emphasize the value of sensory experiences during travel. The discussion and conclusion reflect on the benefits of rural tourism. The report also touches upon the challenges of travel and the role of souvenirs in reflecting travel experiences.

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TOURISM ATTRACTION
Student Name: Shreeram khinju
Student ID No.: 22764003
Unit Name: Tourist behaviour and interaction
Unit Code: TRM20001
Tutor’s name: Mr. Maxine Hawker
Assignment No.: 1
Assignment Title: Literature review and survey
Due date: 07/04/2018
Date submitted: 07/04/2018

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Executive summary
Staying in the urban areas can make someone to forget some of the word beauties which
lies within the outskirts of the town. In essence, away from urban centers someone may feel the
pleasant weathers and climate that can be rarely experienced in the urban areas. Rural areas
enjoy the varieties of natural beauties of the word. I always admired the photos that my uncle and
friends took during their field visits in the rural barangays. They all made me eager to visit the
village and experience their culture. The good times they had there made him recall his young
days with the village friends when they enjoyed the good times they had together. As he
described, he remembered that weekend swimming somewhere in the creek. They used to have a
lot of fun despite they had no idea of what the current technologies of phones were, of the
technology trends that we currently experience. Although life in the urban is luxurious and
comfortable, it sometimes becomes very boring to live alone. My uncle’s studying and working
become so periodic. Therefore, one may need to choose to tour other areas to break this boredom
and have some good time there. My uncle was pushed by the need for regressive behavior in the
village and that triggered his efforts to push to accompany him simply because I liked touring
new places to at least try touring the village where he was born.

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Table of Contents
Executive summary..................................................................................................................................2
Introduction.............................................................................................................................................4
Literature review.....................................................................................................................................4
Methodology...........................................................................................................................................5
Findings...................................................................................................................................................6
Discussion and conclusion.......................................................................................................................7
References...............................................................................................................................................7

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Introduction
There were numerous places to tour, interact with new people and above all experience
new ideas and things. My uncle had a selection of destinations to travel like historical islands,
falls, harbor, and bays. But before my uncle chose to travel to those places, he reviewed about all
the expenditures and availability of accommodation in the places he anticipated to visit. Of all
the areas based on the accommodation and expenses, he personally felt that Wukan village was
the most suitable place for both of us to tour. But before he came up with his final decision, he
thought back to his native area, his childhood friends. Meeting his friends to him would satisfy
his need for regressive behavior. I had also put that idea to my uncle’s mind before he could
make any decision. I reminded him of the beauties of the rural area. He as well recalled the most
famous bay in that area which used to offer him a majestic view and a peaceful mind. All this
could satisfy both of us self-evaluation needs. Similarly, Wukan had promising fishing activities
and also the nearby pacific oceans which drew my uncles attention for traveling to see the bay
(He, and Xue, 2014). This became the reason for my uncle approve of our tour to Wukan village
where he grew up.
Literature Review
My uncle and I had a lot of fun that holiday. For my uncle to drive a vehicle in a busy
highway was so impossible but I helped him that time. He actually overcame that driving fear
that satisfied the need for self-prestige, esteem, and above all self-confidence. After arriving
Wukam village we went direct to the fishing area where we met the friends from his village
fishing and others swimming in the pods. This satisfied us the need for social interaction. After
interviewing my uncle, he claimed that life in the rural areas and mountain happened to be very
simple (Miller, 2012). As long as people had enough in the kitchen for their daily survival then
life became worth-living (Coggins et al., 2012). He remembered those days he grew up there
when we did not have the current computerized technologies how life was so complete. The area
however was not so developed and the technology was not widely spread in that area (Fewsmith,
2013). My uncle seemed so contented and seldom he could feel the complexities of life. Even
that time we could spot utterly happy children in the barangays swimming in the ponds. My
uncle noted the joy these people had there and they genuinely experienced it. My uncle too
seemed to miss swimming and fishing. I interviewed him on the same and he confessed how he

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loved fishing but claimed that it was decades since the last time he went on fishing with his
siblings. He felt really nostalgic simply thinking of those times. My uncle also pointed rural area
people to less suffer from psychological disorders as compared to people from urban areas
(Tong, and Zuo, 2014). He described that to be true because it was the simplicity of life that
made people nearer to healing powers of nature. He added that the people fulfilled their needs
and their desires were very less and when they had no or less desires then their expectation could
not break their self-esteem.
However, we visited the nearby area that he said it was well known to have natural
beauties such as lush forest and the wet plantation fields in the neighboring area that would help
us to fulfill the need for rest and relaxation. He said they used to bask in the short grasses in the
forest and admire the wild animals who lived like a community. The gazelles and the monkeys
well depicted the human behaviors in the way they all moved as a group in the forest. In
addition, the chimpanzees were also spotted taking care of their young ones just like the human
beings do. They as well lived in a family taking care of each other. My uncle confessed of the
fresh natural air in that area as compared to the city pollution. He confessed to have enjoyed the
befitting temperatures for his need for sunlight (Huisheng, 2015). Everything there was natural
including the fresh air and wild fruits he picked from trees on our way to that forest.
After that tour, we all went back to the village where we would spend our holiday. That
was the cheapest of all the places my uncle toured. My uncle claimed that we did not have to rent
any building nor take meals from the towns. We met with his childhood friends. That satisfied
for need of regressive behavior. My uncle could remember all the fun they shared with his
friends (Chung, and Unger, 2013). We all interacted with the few friends who we met there and
that satisfied our need for social interactions. He took me to his friends and relatives who were
living in the village and he claimed that quenched his need to spend time with friends and
relatives. Traveling to those areas absolutely relived the moments and memories with his friends
to satisfy the need for nostalgia (He, and Xue, 2014). He claimed the nights there to be so dark
and that experiences made him remember the days he used to scare the wild animals off their
plantations during the night. He took me to the nearby plantation on the same issue. He could
hardly walk faster as the nights there were so terrible with noisy from the frogs from the nearby
swamps.

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Methodology
I conducted some research to get full information concerning the Wukan area. The
simplest form of data collection methods I could use was the face to face interview to my uncle
and his brother who lived there for long. I enquired of any progress made on the formal
education and there was none at all. The people there were not that learned and questionnaire
could only work when you interpret to them and then fill it yourself. I enquired from one of my
uncle who almost got all the news from the area. The surprising was the most rapid urban
expansion construction on land grabs that had become so ubiquitous over the decades in China
(Sargeson, 2013). There were cases of land deprivation crises and rural identity within Chinese
rural society that were created by the pursuit of urban-centered economic growth. My uncle
claimed that land-related protesting was becoming the focal point of movements that aimed at
protecting the village farmer’s rights (Yang et al., 2013). They feared to be deprived of their
plantations and they all together stood to protect their properties. My uncle was drawing on
ethnographic material on the basis of series of influential protests on the Wukan village land
grabs (Ong, 2014). My village uncle was part of the movement that aimed at protecting their
land. There was a critical rethinking of the economy as well as examining how the restoration of
the village member’s collective identity contributed to the communal resistance that succeeded in
reclaiming governing power and social order (Yang et al., 2013). In essence, they sowed the seed
of hope to the village for the anticipated better life. There activities were restored back as
normal. Their fishing continued, pastoralism, and also fishing. The reinvented and revitalized
clan systems helped in organizing around an extended kinship network that played a crucial role
to reconstitute the villager’s collective identity (Sargeson, 2013). The Wukam area events
constituted the initial step in the ambitious project that turned around farmer’s subordinates and
the vulnerable role among the area’s relentless urbanization (Xue et al., 2013). It is in this
procedures that the economy is being redefined for giving such a greater significance to the
livelihood and the marginal group’s well-being.
Findings
My uncle had a lot to tell from that tour. We all had terrible encounters in the mountains
and the fishing and bay areas because the hike was difficult and uncomfortable to walk all those
regions. My uncle did not have enough sleep as well. This made it hard for hiking. Although

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there were such difficulties, we struggled to visit as many places as possible and eventually be
happy with the view despite the difficulties we experienced (Fewsmith, 2013). Notably, beyond
sightseeing the body was explained to be exercised as an instrument for traveling. To better
understand traveling destination, all tourists ought to use all their senses. A good example
describes both spoken and written word, the ear as well as the tongue to be more essential than
the individual eye upon sight. This is a prove that the human body can be exercised as the
traveling instrument. However, the whole tour was an adventurous experience to my uncle while
traveling to the fishing area, neighboring bays, and the forest because of the complications he
faced on the way to those areas (Wines, 2011). We travelled across big stones within the
swimming and fishing area, limestone’s and big tree roots that were memorable to both of us. I
later realized that people who do not travel envies the souvenirs. The souvenirs are deemed to act
as tourist’s information and share their experiences with their friends. In this case, sets of
souvenirs reflect the significance of travel experience and self-esteem.
Discussion and conclusion
Conclusively, I realized that not only urban centers had a lot to offer with regards to
touring and having new experiences. Touring the rural areas gave my uncle and I an impression
to start focusing on other sites that one spent his holidays enjoying. The rural lives for instance
reminded us on the beauties and cultures that were embraced during the past. Some sites were
used for recreation and having fun. For instance, the swimming on the creeks in our village was
so fantastic and even to-date most of the villagers were still enjoying the natural swimming sites
on the creeks. In addition, fishing was still practiced in the nearby rivers and water catchment
areas. other historical sites like the bays and mountains posed a significant figure within the rural
areas. People in the villages could enjoy the beauties of the nature and the fresh breeze that came
from the nearby bays. The climate there was pleasing and urban dwellers could feel the different
compared to their climates. There was fresh air, conducive temperatures that favored farming in
the plantations. Live in the rural was as well cheap as tourists in the villages could still stay in the
families and everything including food was well catered for. We could as well get to know the
history of the land developments that arose later concerning the land grabbing in the region. We
learned about the history of how the villagers united to protect what was theirs in the rural areas.
We later used individual interviews and realized the urban-centered economic growth to be the
main issue that created cases of land deprivation crises and rural identity within Chinese rural

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society. Lastly, our tour made us get how the movement acted to secure their land and protect
their culture.

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