Contemporary tourist experience : concepts and consequences / edited by Richard Sharpely and Philip Stone.
Material type: TextSeries: Advances in tourismPublication details: London : Routledge, 2012.Description: xv, 308 p. : ill. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780415697422 (hbk.) :
- 0415697425 (hbk.) :
- 338.4791 SHA
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Introduction: experiencing tourism, experiencing happiness? Richard Sharpley and Philip R. Stone -- Part 1.Conceptualising tourist experiences -- 1.Personal experience tourism: a postmaodern understanding. Ana Goytia Prat and Alvaro de La Rica Aspiunza -- 2.The habit of tourism: experiences and their ontological meaning. graham K. Henning -- 3.Experiences of valuistic journeys: motivation and behaviour. Darius Liutikas -- Part II.Understanding dark tourism experiences -- 4.Reconceptualising dark Tourism. Avirtal Biran and Yaniv Poria -- 5.Dark tourism as \'mortality capital\': the case of Ground Zero and the significant other dead. Philip R. Stone -- 6.Towards an understanding of \'genocide tourism\': an analysis of visitors\' acounts of their experience of recent genocide sites. Richard Sharpley -- Part III.Motivation and the contemporary tourist experience -- 7.Being away of being there? British tourist\'s motivations holidaying in Alanya, Turkey. Muhammet Kesgin, Ali Bakir and Eugenia Wickens -- 8.Identifying in tourist motivation and the dynamics of menaing. Karina M. Smed -- 9.Bitten by the Twilight Saga: from pop culture consumer to pop culture tourist. Christine Lundberg and Maria Lexhagen -- Part IV. Place and the tourist experience -- 10.Colunteer tourists\' experiences and sense of place: New Orleans. Jennifer L. Erdley -- 11.Family place experience and the making of places in holiday home destinations: a Danish case study. Jacob R. Kirkegaard Larsen and Lea Holst Laursen -- 12.Museums as playful venues in the leisure society. Babak Taheri and Aliakbar Jafari -- Part V.Managing tourist experiences -- 13.\'We\'ve seen it in the movies. let\'s see if it\'s true\': motivationm authentiicy and displacement in the film-induced tourism experience. Peter Bolan, Stephen Boyd and Jim Bell -- 14.Tourism harassment experiences in Jamaica. Tiffanie L. Skipper, Barbara A. Carmichael and Sean Doherty -- 15.The UK \'grey\' market\'s holiday experience. Bridget Major and Fraser McLeavy.