EXTRACTION METHOD OF BRICOLAGE ACTIONS FOR TOURISM DURING COVID-19

ABSTRACT

Tourism activities have positive impact on individual’s emotions and can improve individual’s QOL (Quality of Life). To build sustainable tourism, resilience is required in difficult society such as COVID-19 pandemic era. One of resilience is “Bricolage” described by Levi-Strauss in “La Pensée Sauvage (The Savage Mind)”. In this research, we aim to discover Bricolage’s activities and how humans express their feelings under COVID-19. We classified Bricolage actions into three types (type 1) Self-closed Bricolage actions, (type 2) One-directional Bricolage actions and (type 3) Mutual Bricolage actions. We implemented the collecting and analyzing system using tweets data in 2020 with the keyword “Tourism”. As a result, keywords of type 1 and type 2 are increasing, especially in conjunction with the first increasing peak of the number of infected people. For keywords of type 3, the increase was linked and was slightly behind in terms of the variation of keywords of type 1 and type 2. In addition, verbs of Bricolage activities were extracted by the 5-gram analysis in terms of the keywords of type 1 and synchronized with the increase trend in the number of infected people. This phenomenon shows social resilience with Bricolage is represented by people during COVID-19. © 2022, ICIC International. All rights reserved.