Muutke küpsiste eelistusi

Contemporary Tourist Experience: Concepts and Consequences [Kõva köide]

Edited by (University of Central Lancashire, UK), Edited by (University of Central Lancashire, UK)
  • Formaat: Hardback, 324 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 770 g, 32 Tables, black and white; 35 Line drawings, black and white; 16 Halftones, black and white; 51 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: Advances in Tourism
  • Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2012
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415697425
  • ISBN-13: 9780415697422
Teised raamatud teemal:
  • Formaat: Hardback, 324 pages, kõrgus x laius: 234x156 mm, kaal: 770 g, 32 Tables, black and white; 35 Line drawings, black and white; 16 Halftones, black and white; 51 Illustrations, black and white
  • Sari: Advances in Tourism
  • Ilmumisaeg: 28-May-2012
  • Kirjastus: Routledge
  • ISBN-10: 0415697425
  • ISBN-13: 9780415697422
Teised raamatud teemal:

This significant and timely volume aims to provide a focused analysis into tourist experiences that reflect their ever-increasing diversity and complexity, and their significance and meaning to tourists themselves. Written by leading international scholars, it offers new insight into emergent behaviours, motivations and sought meanings on the part of tourists based on five contemporary themes determined by current research activity in tourism experience:conceptualization of tourist experience; dark tourism experiences; the relationship between motivation and the contemporary tourist experience; the manner in which tourist experience can be influenced and enhanced by place; and how managers and suppliers can make a significant contribution to the tourist experience.

The book critically explores these experiences from multidisciplinary perspectives and includes case studies from wide range of geographical regions. By analyzing these contemporary tourist experiences, the book will provide further understanding of the consumption of tourism.

Arvustused

"Chapters are coherent in terms of writing style, depth of analysis, and the presentation of studies. Furthermore, the book includes diverse methodological approaches to the study of tourist experiences that range from more traditional positivist research methods, such as questionnaires (Chapter 3, 9), to in-depth qualitative interviews (Chapters 8, 11, 15), and less conventional methods, such as analyzing tourists' travel blogs (Chapter 6, 13), ethnographic methods (Chapter 5, 10), and a mixed method approach (Chapter 7, 14). Thus, overall, it is an interesting and useful book to tourism scholars, graduate students, and industry professionals." Ilze Dziedataja, Manchester Metropolitan University, published in Tourism Analysis

List of contributors
x
Introduction: Experiencing tourism, experiencing happiness? 1(8)
Richard Sharpley
Philip R. Stone
PART I Conceptualising tourist experiences
9(48)
1 Personal experience tourism: A postmodern understanding
11(14)
Ana Goytia Prat
Alvaro De La Rica Aspiunza
2 The habit of tourism: Experiences and their ontological meaning
25(13)
Graham K. Henning
3 Experiences of valuistic journeys: Motivation and behaviour
38(19)
Darius Liutikas
PART II Understanding dark tourism experiences
57(54)
4 Reconceptualising dark tourism
59(12)
Avital Biran
Yaniv Poria
5 Dark tourism as `mortality capital': The case of Ground Zero and the Significant Other Dead
71(24)
Philip R. Stone
6 Towards an understanding of `genocide tourism': An analysis of visitors' accounts of their experience of recent genocide sites
95(16)
Richard Sharpley
PART III Motivation and the contemporary tourist experience
111(54)
7 Being away or being there? British tourists' motivations holidaying in Alanya, Turkey
113(17)
Muhammet Kesgin
Ali Bakir
Eugenia Wickens
8 Identity in tourist motivation and the dynamics of meaning
130(17)
Karina M. Smed
9 Bitten by the Twilight Saga: From pop culture consumer to pop culture tourist
147(18)
Christine Lundberg
Maria Lexhagen
PART IV Place and the tourist experience
165(52)
10 Volunteer tourists' experiences and sense of place: New Orleans
167(14)
Jennifer L. Erdely
11 Family place experience and the making of places in holiday home destinations: A Danish case study
181(20)
Jacob R. Kirkegaard Larsen
Lea Holst Laursen
12 Museums as playful venues in the leisure society
201(16)
Babak Taheri
Aliakbar Jafari
PART V Managing tourist experiences
217(55)
13 `We've seen it in the movies, let's see if it's true': Motivation, authenticity and displacement in the film-induced tourism experience
219(16)
Peter Bolan
Stephen Boyd
Jim Bell
14 Tourism harassment experiences in Jamaica
235(20)
Tiffanie L. Skipper
Barbara A. Carmichael
Sean Doherty
15 The UK `grey' market's holiday experience
255(17)
Bridget Major
Fraser Mcleay
References 272(34)
Index 306
Richard Sharpley is Professor of Tourism and Development at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.

Philip Stone is a former management consultant within the tourism and hospitality sector, and is presently employed as a Senior Lecturer with the University of Central Lancashire Preston, UK.