Author(s)

Lingling Cheng ¹

Affiliation(s)

¹ School of Tourism Management, Kunming University, Kunming, Yunnan Province, 650214, China

Corresponding Author

Lingling Cheng

ABSTRACT

Sailing tourism is conventionally associated with coastal and marine settings, yet inland lakes are increasingly developed as sites for water-based sport tourism. This study examines how sailing becomes experientially possible in a non-coastal highland lake destination. Drawing on survey data from 396 visitors who participated in sailing tourism at Fuxian Lake, Yunnan, China, we develop and test a scene-based mechanism linking scene novelty, scene fit, perceived value, and satisfaction/re-participation intention. The findings show that novelty is important but insufficient. Tourists form positive evaluations when the distinctiveness of highland lake sailing is translated into perceived compatibility with the lake landscape, destination atmosphere and leisure identity. Perceived value further emerges as the strongest proximal predictor of satisfaction and behavioral intention. The study contributes to blue tourism and sport tourism research by conceptualizing non-coastal water sport tourism as the recontextualization of a coastal sport script within an inland lacustrine scene.

KEYWORDS

Highland Lake Tourism, Sailing Tourism, Water Sport Tourism, Scene Novelty, Scene Fit, Perceived Value, Fuxian Lake

CITE THIS PAPER

Lingling Cheng. Making Sailing Possible Beyond the Coast: Scene Novelty, Scene Fit, and Tourist Value in Highland Lake Sailing Tourism. Tourism Management and Technology Economy (2026). Vol. 9, No. 1, 50-57. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/tmte.2026.090106.

REFERENCES

[1] ORAMS M. Marine Tourism: Development, Impacts and Management [M]. London: Routledge, 1999.
[2] URRY J, LARSEN J. The Tourist Gaze 3.0 [M]. London: Sage, 2011.
[3] MACCANNELL D. Staged authenticity: arrangements of social space in tourist settings [J]. American Journal of Sociology, 1973, 79(3): 589-603.
[4] JENNINGS G. Water-Based Tourism, Sport, Leisure, and Recreation Experiences [M]. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann, 2007.
[5] HALL C M, HÄRKÖNEN T. Lake Tourism: An Integrated Approach to Lacustrine Tourism Systems [M]. Clevedon: Channel View Publications, 2006.
[6] GIBSON H J. Sport tourism: a critical analysis of research [J]. Sport Management Review, 1998, 1(1): 45-76.
[7] GÖSSLING S, PEETERS P, HALL C M, et al. Tourism and water use: supply, demand, and security: an international review [J]. Tourism Management, 2012, 33(1): 1-15.
[8] VÖLKER S, KISTEMANN T. The impact of blue space on human health and well-being: salutogenetic health effects of inland surface waters: a review [J]. International Journal of Hygiene and Environmental Health, 2011, 214(6): 449-460.
[9] FOLEY R, KISTEMANN T. Blue space geographies: enabling health in place [J]. Health & Place, 2015, 35: 157-165.
[10] WHITE M P, ELLIOTT L R, GASCON M, et al. Blue space, health and well-being: a narrative overview and synthesis of potential benefits [J]. Environmental Research, 2020, 191: 110169.
[11] PRIDEAUX B, COOPER M. River Tourism [M]. Wallingford: CABI, 2009.
[12] CAMPÓN-CERRO A M, DI-CLEMENTE E, HERNÁNDEZ-MOGOLLÓN J M, et al. Healthy water-based tourism experiences: their contribution to quality of life, satisfaction and loyalty [J]. International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health, 2020, 17(6): 1961.
[13] RELPH E. Place and Placelessness [M]. London: Pion, 1976.
[14] BITNER M J. Servicescapes: the impact of physical surroundings on customers and employees [J]. Journal of Marketing, 1992, 56(2): 57-71.
[15] CRESSWELL T. Place: An Introduction [M]. Malden: Wiley-Blackwell, 2004.
[16] MASSEY D. For Space [M]. London: Sage, 2005.
[17] O’DELL T. Experiencescapes: blurring borders and testing connections between business and culture [M]//O’DELL T, BILLING P, eds. Experiencescapes: Tourism, Culture and Economy. Copenhagen: Copenhagen Business School Press, 2005: 11-33.
[18] MOSSBERG L. A marketing approach to the tourist experience [J]. Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism, 2007, 7(1): 59-74.
[19] EDENSOR T. Performing tourism, staging tourism: reproducing tourist space and practice [J]. Tourist Studies, 2001, 1(1): 59-81.
[20] VAN DER DUIM R. Tourismscapes: an actor-network perspective [J]. Annals of Tourism Research, 2007, 34(4): 961-976.
[21] CROMPTON J L. Motivations for pleasure vacation [J]. Annals of Tourism Research, 1979, 6(4): 408-424.
[22] COHEN E. A phenomenology of tourist experiences [J]. Sociology, 1979, 13(2): 179-201.
[23] JANG S, FENG R. Temporal destination revisit intention: the effects of novelty seeking and satisfaction [J]. Tourism Management, 2007, 28(2): 580-590.
[24] DANN G M S. Anomie, ego-enhancement and tourism [J]. Annals of Tourism Research, 1977, 4(4): 184-194.
[25] ISO-AHOLA S E. Toward a social psychological theory of tourism motivation: a rejoinder [J]. Annals of Tourism Research, 1982, 9(2): 256-262.
[26] ZEITHAML V A. Consumer perceptions of price, quality, and value: a means-end model and synthesis of evidence [J]. Journal of Marketing, 1988, 52(3): 2-22.
[27] SWEENEY J C, SOUTAR G N. Consumer perceived value: the development of a multiple item scale [J]. Journal of Retailing, 2001, 77(2): 203-220.
[28] PETRICK J F. Development of a multi-dimensional scale for measuring the perceived value of a service [J]. Journal of Leisure Research, 2002, 34(2): 119-134.
[29] CHEN C F, TSAI D C. How destination image and evaluative factors affect behavioral intentions? [J]. Tourism Management, 2007, 28(4): 1115-1122.
[30] CHEN C F, CHEN F S. Experience quality, perceived value, satisfaction and behavioral intentions for heritage tourists [J]. Tourism Management, 2010, 31(1): 29-35.
[31] PRAHALAD C K, RAMASWAMY V. Co-creation experiences: the next practice in value creation [J]. Journal of Interactive Marketing, 2004, 18(3): 5-14.
[32] PREBENSEN N K, KIM H, UYSAL M. Cocreation as moderator between the experience value and satisfaction relationship [J]. Journal of Travel Research, 2016, 55(7): 934-945.
[33] YOON Y, UYSAL M. An examination of the effects of motivation and satisfaction on destination loyalty: a structural model [J]. Tourism Management, 2005, 26(1): 45-56.

Sponsors, Associates, and Links

---

• Information Systems and Economics
  
  
• Accounting, Auditing and Finance
  
  
• Industrial Engineering and Innovation Management
  
  
• Journal of Computational and Financial Econometrics
  
  
• Financial Engineering and Risk Management
  
  
• Accounting and Corporate Management
  
  
• Social Security and Administration Management
  
  
• Population, Resources & Environmental Economics
  
  
• Statistics & Quantitative Economics
  
  
• Agricultural & Forestry Economics and Management
  
  
• Social Medicine and Health Management
  
  
• Land Resource Management
  
  
• Information, Library and Archival Science
  
  
• Journal of Human Resource Development
  
  
• Manufacturing and Service Operations Management
  
  
• Operational Research and Cybernetics