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Routledge Handbook of the Tourist Experience / edited by Richard Sharpley

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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
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©2022
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1 online resource
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Sharpley, Richard, 1956-
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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 exploreemergent 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. Section1 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. Section2 investigates the new, developing tourist demands and motivations, and a growing interest in the travel career. Section3 considers the significance, motives, practices and experiences of different types of tourists and their roles such as the tourist as photographer. Section4 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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9781000462241 electronic book
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1003219861 (electronic bk.)
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1000462277 (electronic bk. : EPUB)
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