Slow Travels Through Alisan - A Journey in Literature

• Main Authors: HSIEH, TUNG-JU, 謝東儒
• Other Authors: LAN, YEN-CHIU
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2018
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/4e2y2h

碩士 === 康寧大學 === 休閒管理研究所 === 106 === The concept of “slow travel” has become a popular tourism trend in the 21st century. This idea refers to traveling with the four elements of slow mentality, consciousness of environmental choice, emphasis on local connections, and experiencing local culture. When opting for slow travel, tourists sightsee at a slow pace and interact with the local community to create a personalized experience. Alisan is a very popular tourist attraction in Taiwan, as well as a popular option for mass tourism. In this study, we aim to explore the tourism of Alisan from a slow travel perspective. Using literature as a navigation tool for sightseeing and gazing, we carry out both ancient and modern sightseeing and gazing of Alisan and make a slow travel literary exploration of its humanistic and natural characteristics. Alisan is rich with literary writing, so in this study, we will categorize the literary tourism of Alisan as either the humanistic style or the natural style. In terms of the humanistic gaze, Alisan has the Tsou tribe, the forest railway, and the forest recreation area. Tsou's Kuba, war sacrifices, and rice sacrifices are the focus of the gaze, so hawse have sorted out the literature related to the myths and legends of the Tsou. The forest railway, which integrates the "forest railway", "mountaineering railway", and "alpine railroad", has been an important landscape since the Japanese occupation period and has become an integral part of Alisan Forest. The earliest settlement in the forest recreational zone is in Zhaoping. After the great fire in 1976, it moved to the entrance of today's forest recreation area. The forest play area has a variety of landscapes and a wealth of literature and writing that encourages readers to enjoy literary slow travel. In this study, we find that literary writing can serve as a tourism guide to enrich the connotation of tourism. Relying on the close relationship between literary travel and slow travel can produce identification and connection with the culture of the travel destination, thus providing a profound experience that differs from that of ordinary tourism.