This study explored how homeland tourists (those who visit their origin home/homeland for vacations) construct nostalgic experiences in virtual tourism spaces. Based on traditional-village digital museum (TVDM) tourism, we adopted a phenomenological approach to investigate the ways homeland tourists evoke and experience nostalgia in digital environments. The results indicated that the digital-induced nostalgic experiencescape of TVDM strengthened tourists' sense of nostalgia through embodied interaction with virtual reality. This experience, moreover, caused tourists to perceive unique benefits, and it stimulated their ritualized nostalgic behavior. This study's findings improve our understanding of nostalgia-based virtual spaces and stimulate innovation of digital-induced nostalgia businesses.

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数字引发的怀旧之情：家乡游客在传统乡村数字博物馆中的怀旧体验


本研究探讨了家乡游客（那些访问原籍国/家乡度假的人）如何在虚拟旅游空间中构建怀旧体验。基于传统村庄数字博物馆 （TVDM） 旅游，我们采用了现象学方法来研究家乡游客在数字环境中唤起和体验怀旧的方式。结果表明，TVDM 的数字诱导怀旧体验景观通过与虚拟现实的具身交互增强了游客的怀旧感。此外，这种经历使游客感受到了独特的好处，并刺激了他们仪式化的怀旧行为。这项研究的结果提高了我们对基于怀旧的虚拟空间的理解，并刺激了数字诱导的怀旧业务的创新。