Tourist Behaviour and the Contemporary World (Aspects of Tourism, 51)

Pearce, Prof. Philip L.

ISBN 10: 1845412214 / ISBN 13: 9781845412210

Published by Channel View Publications, 2011

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Tourist Behaviour and the Contemporary World (Aspects of Tourism, 51)
• Publisher: Channel View Publications
• Publication Date: 2011
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1845412214
• ISBN 13: 9781845412210
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

This volume seeks to review and stimulate interest in a number of emerging and fresh topics in contemporary tourist behaviour and experience. Topics explored include the effects of newer technologies on tourists’ behaviour and experience, tourists’ experience of scams, safety and personal responsibility, individual perspectives on sustainability, and some dimensions of tourists’ personal growth, relationships and altruism. The topics are bound together by an integrative approach to conceptualising experience which is seen as an ensemble of orchestrated sensory inputs; affective reactions; cognitive mechanisms used to think about and understand the setting; actions undertaken and the relevant relationships which define the participants’ world. A special emphasis is placed on tourists’ stories as a pathway to access the nature of tourists’ experience. Potential research directions in the field are indicated throughout.

About the Author

Philip L. Pearce is the Foundation Professor of Tourism and a Distinguished Professor at James Cook University, Australia. He has written and edited 18 tourism books and has around 300 publications. His long-standing interests are studies in tourist behaviour and experience. He is well known for his work on travel motivation, and approaches to tourists’ experience as well as special topics including humour stemming from positive psychology. He works with his PhD students and international colleagues using a variety of methods and approaches. Most studies are done in settings in Asia, Australia and Europe.