Performance: A New Perspective of Tourism Research

Performance, including art performance and social performance, is a way of expression and behavior, is the external expression of performance subject and inner thought, is a process. Performance has become a keyword in the field of tourism research. Articles on the performance theory, puts forward the connotation of tourism performance, build the hosts and visitors the role of interaction and transformation model, through to the tourism performance authenticity, performing and scene analysis, finally points out that the performance study of the phase of the research direction of future, offers a new perspective for tourism research. Tourism as a cultural experience and performance of tourists, is a cultural and spiritual activities. It covers all aspects of social life, is a complex and diverse social phenomenon, from a single point of view of its interpretation, is a difficult thing. Therefore, the research on the tourism activities and the phenomenon of tourism has the characteristics of multi subjects and cross disciplinary integration and reference. The relevant theories of related disciplines of classical theory is applied to tourism research, whether it is the social exchange theory, stakeholder theory and actor network theory, or grounded theory, tourism Hermitage theory and niche theory; or is the symbolic interaction theory, tourism gaze theory, or ritual theory and tourism field domain theory, sociology, anthropology, geography, ecology, ethnology, economics and management science disciplines to promote the development of tourism research, the research on the tourism activities and phenomena present multi view, multiple theories and dimensions of our research.