Tourist Experience (eBook, ePUB)

Contemporary Perspectives
Redaktion: Sharpley, Richard; Stone, Philip

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

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. By analyzing these contemporary tourist experiences, the book will provide further understanding of the consumption of tourism.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 304
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2010
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135146696
• Artikelnr.: 43072245

Autorenporträt

Richard Sharpley is Professor of Tourism and Development at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. He has previously held positions at a number of other institutions, including the University of Northumbria (Reader in Tourism) and the University of Lincoln, where he was professor of Tourism and Head of Department, Tourism and Recreation Management. His principal research interests are within the fields of tourism and development, island tourism, rural tourism and the sociology of tourism, and his books include Tourism and Development in the Developing World (2008), Tourism, Tourists and Society, 4th Edition (2008) and Tourism, Development and Environment: Beyond Sustainability (2009). 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 (UCLan), UK. He teaches tourism, hospitality and event management at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Philip is also founder and Editor of The Dark Tourism Forum, the premier online dark tourism subject resource facility and global alliance of scholars and industry practitioners (see www.dark-tourism.org.uk ). His primary research interests revolve around dark tourism consumption and its relationship with contemporary society. He has published in a number of international academic journals, presented at a variety of international conferences and, with Richard Sharpley, is co-editor of The Darker Side of Travel: The Theory and Practice of Dark Tourism (2009).

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: Thinking About the Tourist Experience 1. Ways of
Conceptualising the Tourist Experience: A Review of Literature Section 1:
Dark Tourism Experiences: Mediating Metween Life and Death 2. Exploring the
Conceptual and Analytical Framing of Dark Tourism: From Darkness to
Intentionality 3. Thanatourism and the Commodification of Space in Post-war
Croatia and Bosnia Section 2: Experiencing Poor Places: Introduction 4.
Slumming: Empirical Results and Oberservational-Theoretical Considerations
on the Backgrounds of Township, Favela and Slum Tourism 5. Rights-based
Tourism: Tourist Engagement in Social Change, Globalised Social Movements,
and Endogenous Development in Cuba 6. Tourists' Photographic Gaze: The Case
of Rio de Janeiro Favelas Section 3: Sport Tourism Experiences:
Introduction 7. 'Sporting' New Attractions? The Commodification of the
Sleeping Stadium 8. Understanding Sport Tourism Experiences: Exploring the
Participant-spectator Nexus 9. We are Family: IGLFA World Championships,
London 2008 Section 4: Writing the Tourist Experience: Introduction 10.
Creating Your Own Shetland: Tourist Narratives from Travelogues to Blogs
11. Narrating Travel Experiences: The Role of New Media 12. Learning from
Travel Experiences: A System for Analysing Feflective Learning in Journals
Section 5: Researching Tourist Experiences: Methodological Approaches 13.
Qualitative Method Research and the 'Tourism Experience: A Methodological
Perspective Applied in a Heritage Setting 14. Exploring Space, the Senses
and Sensitivities: Spatial Knowing 15. Kohlberg's Stages: Informing
Responsible Tourist Behaviour