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Xingyu Huang is a PhD student in Business administration with a concentration of Tourism and Sports at Fox School of Business, Temple University. Her current research interests lie in tourism marketing, tourist’s emotion and health, customer behavior/experience in tourism and hospitality.

Honggang Xu, Ph.D. (xuhongg@mail.sysu.edu.cn), is a Professor and Dean of the School of Tourism Management at Sun Yat-Sen University. Her research interests include tourism geography, mobilities, and system dynamics.

Xiang (Robert) Li, Ph.D. (robertli@temple.edu) is a professor and Chair of the Department of Tourism and Hospitality Management at Temple University. Robert's research mainly focuses on destination marketing and tourist behavior, with emphases on international destination branding, customer loyalty, and tourism in Asia.

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Border is part of the entrenched history and reality of tourist mobility. This study takes the concept of border as the theoretical basis to analyze how local borders are produced, developed and transformed in tourism communities. Taking China’s Hongcun Village, a bordered UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site, and its neighboring village - Jicun, as the study cases, the authors conducted interviews and observation to explore how local borders are developed. The results show that local borders can be understood from at least five perspectives: administrative, physical, social-economic, functional and psychological. Different aspects of local borders interact with each other and constantly change. This paper contributes to the literature as it reveals that local borders are always driven by external forces and actors, strongly supported by the market economy. And it conceptualizes borders as processes including bordering, debordering and rebordering, which provides a dynamic perspective to understand tourism impacts.

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A Tale of Two Villages: Debordering and Rebordering in the Bordered Community Scenic Area

Border is part of the entrenched history and reality of tourist mobility. This study takes the concept of border as the theoretical basis to analyze how local borders are produced, developed and transformed in tourism communities. Taking China’s Hongcun Village, a bordered UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site, and its neighboring village - Jicun, as the study cases, the authors conducted interviews and observation to explore how local borders are developed. The results show that local borders can be understood from at least five perspectives: administrative, physical, social-economic, functional and psychological. Different aspects of local borders interact with each other and constantly change. This paper contributes to the literature as it reveals that local borders are always driven by external forces and actors, strongly supported by the market economy. And it conceptualizes borders as processes including bordering, debordering and rebordering, which provides a dynamic perspective to understand tourism impacts.