Tourist Experience
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Author Description
Tourist Experience provides 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 insights 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: dark tourism experiences, experiencing poor places, sport tourism experiences, writing the tourist experience and researching tourist experiences: methodological approaches. The book critically explores these experiences from multidisciplinary perspectives and includes case studies from a wide range of geographical regions
Menrva's Summary
THE THESIS
This book investigates the evolving nature, diversity, and personal significance of the modern tourist experience. The authors, Richard Sharpley and Philip R. Stone, are established scholars in the field of tourism studies who synthesize current research to examine how tourists derive meaning from their travels. By utilizing a multidisciplinary framework, they analyze the motivations and behaviors that define contemporary tourism across various global contexts.
THE SCOPE MAP
What You Will Find
- Analysis of dark tourism and the consumption of sites associated with death or tragedy.
- Examination of tourism in impoverished regions and the ethical implications of experiencing poor places.
- Exploration of sport tourism and the physical engagement of travelers.
- Methodological approaches for conducting rigorous research into tourist behaviors and meanings.
- Case studies drawn from diverse geographical regions to illustrate theoretical concepts.
THE AUTHORITY PERSPECTIVE
Experts in the field of tourism studies recognize this work as a significant contribution to understanding the complexity of traveler motivations. Readers frequently note the academic density of the prose, making it a valuable resource for students and researchers seeking a structured analysis of contemporary tourism trends.
Page Count:
284
Publication Date:
2010-01-01
Publisher:
Routledge
ISBN-10:
0203855949
ISBN-13:
9780203855942
Travel
Tourists
Academic
Sociology
Tourism
Social Science
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