Routledge Handbook of the Tourist Experience

ISBN-13: 9781032114279 / Miękka / 2023 / 636 str.

Opis

Routledge Handbook of the Tourist Experience offers a comprehensive synthesis of contemporary research on the tourist experience. It draws together multidisciplinary perspectives from leading tourism scholars to explore the emergent tourist behaviours and motivations.

Spis treści

Section 1: Dimensions of the Contemporary Tourist Experience  1. Tourism, the Tourist Experience and Postmodernity: Theory, Application and Research  2. Experiencing Tourism: Experiencing Happiness?  3. The Emotional Dimension of the Tourist Experience  4. Building the Orchestra Model of Tourist Experience, Integration, and Examples  5. The Inter-Relationship Between Tourist Satisfaction and Tourist Experiences: How Does One Contribute to the Other?  6. Evolving Authenticity into the Magical Realm of Fantasy-Based Third-Order Simulacra  7. Tourist Experiences: Liminal, Liminoid or Just Doing Something Different?  8. Finding Flow in the Travel Experience  9. Tourist Experiences as Attention Products  10. Tourist Experience: A Semiotic Perspective  11. Performing Beyond the View: Embodiment and Tourist Experiences  12. Tourism: A Spiritual Experience? Section 2: Tourist Demand and Motivation  13. The Ulysses Factor Revisited: Consolidating the Travel Career Pattern Approach to Tourist Motivation  14. The Experienced Tourist – Proposing a New Tourist Typology  15. Tourist Motivation: A Critical Overview  Section 3: Tourist Roles and Experiences  16. Traveller, Tourist and the ‘Lost Art of Travelling’: The Debate Continues  17. Mass Tourism and Personal Experiences  18. Backpacker Tourist Experiences: Temporal, Spatial and Cultural Perspectives  19. Volunteer Tourism: ‘It's No Use Going Back to Yesterday, Because I Was a Different Person Then’  20. Feelin’ Groovy: Exploring Slow(ness) in Tourism Experience  21. Ecotourist Experience: Myth or reality?  22. Is It Just the Music? Understanding the Atmosphere in Festivalgoers’ Experience at British Rock Music Festivals  23. The Film-Induced Tourism Experience  24. Remembrancing, Remembrance Gangs, and Co-opted Encounters: Loading and Reloading Dark Tourism Experiences  25. Frontier Tourism: Transcendence Through Trial  26. Creating Wellness Tourism Experiences  27. Seeking the Unusual But Sustainable: Scuba Diving Experience  28. Religious Tourism: A Spiritual or Touristic Experience?  29. The Contemporary Cruise Tourist Experience  30. Key Components of Sport Tourist Experiences  31. Photography and the Tourist Experience: From Cameras to Smartphones  32. Accessible Tourist Experiences  Section 4: The Tourist Experience and Place  33. Marketing a Sense of Place to Tourists: A Critical Perspective  34. The Importance of Built Heritage in the English Seaside Experience  35. Island Tourist Experiences  36. Delivering Appealing and Competitive Rural Wine Tourism Experiences  37. Wilderness Tourism: Nature-Based Tourist Experiences in Wild Places  Section 5: Creating and Mediating the Tourist Experience  38. Designing the Tourist Experience: A Marketing Perspective  39. Tourist Experience: A Marketing Perspective  40. Value Co-Creation in Tourism Eco-Systems: Operant and Operand Resources  41. Place-Based Education, Cemetery Visitation and the Tourist Experience  42. Service Experiences and Innovation in the Hospitality Industry  43. Tour Guides as Mediators of Commemoration, Education and Holiday Making: The Anthropology of the Dark Tourism Experience in Berlin  44. Experience Design in the Smart Tourism Destination

O autorze

Richard Sharpley is Professor of Tourism and Development at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. His research interests lie within two broad areas – tourism and sustainable development and the tourist experience – and he has researched and published widely in both.