The Study On Self-Presentation And Identity Of Sojourners In Gulangyu Island,Xiamen

There are non-institutionalized tourists such as couch-surfers,backpackers,working tourists and tourist immigrants in the modern society with great mobility.The phenomenon of working tourism and mobile sojourning have emerged in China,where economy and tourism develop rapidly.Gulangyu Island in Xiamen is a famous island scenic and cultural tourism area in China.The mobility of non-institutionalized tourists in Gulangyu Island is relatively strong,and the sojourner group accounts for a certain proportion of the non-institutionalized tourists.Identity is what the sojourner seeks in the context of modernization and mobility.Identity is also one of the hot spots in the field of tourism research.Therefore,this paper deals with four main issues: the problem of self-presentation of sojourners in daily life,the process of sojourner's identity and construction,the relationship between sojourner's self-presentation and identity,and the interaction between sojourners and tourist destination.The research was developed step by step based on the idea of "literature review,study designing scheme,qualitative analysis and strategy analysis".The author mainly conducted in-depth interviews with 34 sojourners in Gulangyu Island,and used Nvivo12.0?ROST Content Mining 6 or other data analysis tools for statistical analysis of word frequency,social network analysis,grounded theory analysis and so on.The following research conclusions are drawn: the five main categories of sojourner's identity are identity dilemma,self-presentation,self-identity,social identity and cultural identity.Three sub-dimensions of identity are self-identity,social identity and cultural identity.And self-presentation of sojourners directly affects their identity.The identity of sojourner goes through the process of “construction,deconstruction and reconstruction”,and repeats the cycle of dynamic process.And the sojourner will repeat this dynamic cycle over and over again.The influence of tourist destination on the identity of sojourner has four aspects,including destination environment,social interaction,social and cultural context and social mobility.When the sojourner realizes the identity,it affects both the social economy and the cultural landscape of tourist destination.The paper focuses on exploring the self-presentation and identity of sojourners.This study has made some innovations and contributions.The paper redefines the concept of “sojourner” in the field of tourism.The paper constructs five categories of identity.The paper summarizes the identification process of sojourners in tourist destinations.On the basis of the research conclusion,the paper puts forward three research direction in the future,including the detailed classification of sojourner groups,the social behavior characteristics of sojourners and the comparison of several typical cases.