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5. A Brief History of Chinese Wedding and Bridal Photography Tourism: Through the Lens of Top Chinese Wedding Photographers

Authors : Yuting Jane Zhuang, André M. Everett

Published in: Asian Cultures and Contemporary Tourism

Publisher: Springer Singapore

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Wedding photography, a traditional intersection between the art and wedding industries, has infrequently been researched from a tourism perspective despite the rising popularity of destination weddings and exotic souvenir photography that coincides with (and caters to) the demand for images suitable for dissemination via social media. The history of wedding photography tourism in Asia is mostly unexplored, perhaps due to the currency of the boom in this phenomenon. Investigating questions regarding causes and consequences of wedding tourism can contribute to the consumption patterns of Asian travellers within the global tourism industry. This research is nested in the dual histories of the wedding and tourism industries in China. It combines historiography and visual anthropology in collecting and analysing naturally occurring data from the social media accounts of leading Chinese wedding photographers. Through coding, the footprints of travel photography data from 2010 to 2016 were illustrated on world maps that reflect travel patterns of the chosen six leading photographers, each representing a category of travel photographers based in China. These maps reflect the evolution of destination choice and frequency in the consumption behaviour of Chinese newlyweds, concisely summarising the history of Chinese wedding and bridal photography tourism and relevant causal-effect relationships from the professional’s point of view.

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Title: A Brief History of Chinese Wedding and Bridal Photography Tourism: Through the Lens of Top Chinese Wedding Photographers
Authors: Yuting Jane Zhuang
André M. Everett
Publisher: Springer Singapore
Book: Asian Cultures and Contemporary Tourism
Print ISBN: 978-981-10-7979-5

Electronic ISBN: 978-981-10-7980-1

Copyright Year: 2018
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-10-7980-1_5