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Routledge Handbook of the Tourist Experience (Hardcover)
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Routledge Handbook of the Tourist Experience (Hardcover)
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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 emergent tourist behaviours and motivations.
This handbook provides up-to-date, critical discussions of
established and emergent themes and issues related to the tourist
experience from a primarily socio-cultural perspective. It opens
with a detailed introduction which lays down the framework used to
examine the dynamic parameters of the tourist experience. Organised
into five thematic sections, chapters seek to build and enhance
knowledge and understanding of the significance and meaning of
diverse elements of the tourist experience. Section 1
conceptualises and understands the tourist experience through an
exploration of conventional themes such as tourism as authentic and
spiritual experience, as well as emerging themes such as tourism as
an embodied experience. Section 2 investigates the new, developing
tourist demands and motivations, and a growing interest in the
travel career. Section 3 considers the significance, motives,
practices and experiences of different types of tourists and their
roles such as the tourist as photographer. Section 4 discusses the
relevance of 'place' to the tourist experience by exploring the
relationship between tourism and place. The last section, Section
5, scrutinises the role of the tourist in creating their
experiences through themes such as 'transformations in the tourist
role' from passive receiver of experiences to co-creator of
experiences, and 'external mediators in creating tourist
experiences'. This handbook is the first to fill a notable gap in
the tourism literature and collate within a single volume critical
insights into the diverse elements of the tourist experience today.
It will be of key interest to academics and students across the
fields of tourism, hospitality management, geography, marketing and
consumer behaviour.
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