Encounters with cuteness: Multispecies ethnographic insights into giant pandas’ agency and tourist perceptions in wildlife tourism
Tourist Studies: An International Journal
Published online on November 29, 2025
Abstract
Tourist Studies, Ahead of Print.
Cute animals attract visitors. This study adopts a multispecies ethnographic approach to deconstruct the anthropocentric, unidirectional construction of “cuteness.” It explores how giant pandas’ cuteness shapes tourists’ cognition and emotional ...
Cute animals attract visitors. This study adopts a multispecies ethnographic approach to deconstruct the anthropocentric, unidirectional construction of “cuteness.” It explores how giant pandas’ cuteness shapes tourists’ cognition and emotional ...