身份认同与具身体验内在响应研究——以中国“同志”赴泰旅游为例

同性恋旅游正在成为一个全新的旅游细分市场，而身份认同作为中国“同志”在旅游过程中的自我认同和身份的确认，在旅游体验的获得上具有较为紧密的关联。身份认同与旅游具身体验的响应研究以中国“同志”赴泰旅游为例，通过16位中国“同志”旅游者五天四夜的赴泰旅游日记的撰写，并结合后续通过3位日记撰写受访者和6位赴泰旅游的受访者的深度访谈逐字稿进行访谈，探讨中国“同志”赴泰的身份认同与具身体验响应的内在关联研究。研究表明，中国“同志”赴泰旅游体验是实现身份认同和自我认同的具身性实践和反思，也是叙事性内容建构的过程，进而得出身份认同与旅游具身体验内在关联的叙事过程性空间模型。本研究将补足深化和拓宽亚洲“同志”的身份认同与具身体验的研究较少的现状，做了进一步的细分旅行者行为和心理的研究。

CONSTRUCTION OF SELF-IDENTITY AND EMBODIED EXPERIENCE: A CASE STUDY OF CHINESE GAY TOURISTS IN THAILAND

Research on gay tourism has mainly focused on Western countries such as Europe and the United States, and relatively little is known about the tourism behavior and psychology of gay tourists in Asia. Given the unique social norms and relatively conservative stance of Asian cultures, the tourism experience and psychology of Asian gay tourists may be different from that of the West, and the Asian gay tourist Psychological and behavioral changes and bodily sensory perceptions of Asian gay tourists have also become a neglected segmentation topic in existing research. This study investigated the identity reconstruction and embodied experiences of Chinese gay tourists using a qualitative approach. Based on 16 diaries and 6 in-depth interviews with Chinese gay tourists, our findings show that: 1) The narrative process of identity and embodied experience of Chinese gay tourists to Thailand consists of identity indecision and bodily expectation, identity and bodily experience adaptation, identity and embodied experience struggle, identity reinforcement and physical and mental burnout regulation, identity convergence and embodied perception; 2) The narrative construction space of identity and embodied experience in Chinese gay and lesbian travel to Thailand provides a transformation-oriented path of identity-body experience through which Chinese gay and lesbian tourists adjust their self-identity and adapt to the corresponding bodily sensory experience and bodily sociological context.