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Contemporary tourist experience : concepts and consequences /
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 behavi...
| Call Number: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Main Authors: | , |
| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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London :
Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group,
2012.
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| Series: | Routledge advances in tourism ;
27. |
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; List of contributors; Introduction: Experiencing tourism, experiencing happiness?; PART I Conceptualising tourist experiences; 1 Personal experience tourism: A postmodern understanding; 2 The habit of tourism: Experiences and their ontological meaning; 3 Experiences of valuistic journeys: Motivation and behaviour; PART II Understanding dark tourism experiences; 4 Reconceptualising dark tourism; 5 Dark tourism as 'mortality capital': The case of Ground Zero and the Significant Other Dead.
- 6 Towards an understanding of 'genocide tourism': An analysis of visitors' accounts of their experience of recent genocide sitesPART III Motivation and the contemporary tourist experience; 7 Being away or being there? British tourists' motivations holidaying in Alanya, Turkey; 8 Identity in tourist motivation and the dynamics of meaning; 9 Bitten by the Twilight Saga: From pop culture consumer to pop culture tourist; PART IV Place and the tourist experience; 10 Volunteer tourists' experiences and sense of place: New Orleans.
- 11 Family place experience and the making of places in holiday home destinations: A Danish case study12 Museums as playful venues in the leisure society; PART V Managing tourist experiences; 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; 14 Tourism harassment experiences in Jamaica; 15 The UK 'grey' market's holiday experience; References; Index.