A Phenomenological Study of Resident Perceived Place and Placelessness in Touristification

초록

To understand touristification, it is necessary to include its entire complexity addressing urban places, tourism, and other situational contexts, which goes beyond the ‘classical’ approach used to explore gentrification such as spatial displacement, criminals, and litter problems. This study applies Relph’s concepts of place and placelessness to understand how the changes of place in a touristifying neighborhood are experienced by local residents. Accordingly, this study expands understanding the concept of touristification, and identifies the meaning structure of place changes from an internal perspective. This study adopted a descriptive phenomenological method, and conducted in-depth interview with 13 local residents in Mangwon-dong in Korea. Results illustrated that study participants experience the place changes that are constitute with placelessness, hope for placeness, and different gazes.

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