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Study Finds Why Genealogical Tourism is Popular
"Aging plays an important role in defining a person's choice of tourism, and genealogical travel is contemporary society's way of attaining a more coherent and continuous, albeit imagined, view of ourselves in connection with the past."
According to Santos: "Diaspora definitely plays an important role in popularizing genealogical tourism," Santos said. "Individual cultural and ethnic identities exist in fragmented and discontinuous forms in the U.S. Traveling to identify with an unknown past seems to give existence to meanings and values that the individual then carries forward on into their present."
Since diaspora is a ubiquitous condition in our multicultural country, "our ancestors' past seems less retrievable and almost mythical," Yan says.
Santos adds: "A lot of us may feel that there's a tension between the need to feel connected and the need to be individualistic.
"Genealogical travel gives us a practical way to explore those feelings and move toward a deeper understanding of our identities."
"Not only does it help to mitigate the desires and anxieties about our age, genealogical tourism also encourages us to take a more humanistic approach toward issues of belonging, home, heritage and identity," she said.
The study has appeared in a recent issue of the Journal of Travel Research.
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