Tourist Behaviour and the Contemporary World - Couverture rigide

Pearce, Philip L.

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 1845412222 ISBN 13 : 9781845412227

Editeur : Channel View Publications, 2011

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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Philip Pearce is Foundation Professor of Tourism at James Cook University. He earned a Doctorate from the University of Oxford and has held a Fulbright scholarship at Harvard University. He has chaired and developed one of the leading tourism departments in Australia at James Cook University. He has won multiple awards for teaching including an Australian Learning and Teaching Council award for tourism education. He has written over 150 publications and 9 books on tourism. He is a foundation member of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism and was the Chief Editor of Australia's premier tourism journal, The Journal of Tourism Studies, from 1990-2005.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Channel View Publications
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1845412222
• ISBN 13: 9781845412227
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible