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 explore the emergent tourist behaviours and motivations.
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 explore emergent 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. Section 1 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. Section 2 investigates the new, developing tourist demands and motivations, and a growing interest in the travel career. Section 3 considers the significance, motives, practices and experiences of different types of tourists and their roles such as the tourist as photographer. Section 4 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.
Section 1: Dimensions of the Contemporary Tourist Experience
1. Tourism,
the Tourist Experience and Postmodernity: Theory, Application and Research
2.
Experiencing Tourism: Experiencing Happiness?
3. The Emotional Dimension of
the Tourist Experience
4. Building the Orchestra Model of Tourist
Experience, Integration, and Examples
5. The Inter-Relationship Between
Tourist Satisfaction and Tourist Experiences: How Does One Contribute to the
Other?
6. Evolving Authenticity into the Magical Realm of Fantasy-Based
Third-Order Simulacra
7. Tourist Experiences: Liminal, Liminoid or Just Doing
Something Different?
8. Finding Flow in the Travel Experience
9. Tourist
Experiences as Attention Products
10. Tourist Experience: A Semiotic
Perspective
11. Performing Beyond the View: Embodiment and Tourist
Experiences
12. Tourism: A Spiritual Experience? Section 2: Tourist Demand
and Motivation
13. The Ulysses Factor Revisited: Consolidating the Travel
Career Pattern Approach to Tourist Motivation
14. The Experienced Tourist
Proposing a New Tourist Typology
15. Tourist Motivation: A Critical Overview
Section 3: Tourist Roles and Experiences
16. Traveller, Tourist and the Lost
Art of Travelling: The Debate Continues
17. Mass Tourism and Personal
Experiences
18. Backpacker Tourist Experiences: Temporal, Spatial and
Cultural Perspectives
19. Volunteer Tourism: It's No Use Going Back to
Yesterday, Because I Was a Different Person Then
20. Feelin Groovy:
Exploring Slow(ness) in Tourism Experience
21. Ecotourist Experience: Myth or
reality?
22. Is It Just the Music? Understanding the Atmosphere in
Festivalgoers Experience at British Rock Music Festivals
23. The
Film-Induced Tourism Experience
24. Remembrancing, Remembrance Gangs, and
Co-opted Encounters: Loading and Reloading Dark Tourism Experiences
25.
Frontier Tourism: Transcendence Through Trial
26. Creating Wellness Tourism
Experiences
27. Seeking the Unusual But Sustainable: Scuba Diving Experience
28. Religious Tourism: A Spiritual or Touristic Experience?
29. The
Contemporary Cruise Tourist Experience
30. Key Components of Sport Tourist
Experiences
31. Photography and the Tourist Experience: From Cameras to
Smartphones
32. Accessible Tourist Experiences Section 4: The Tourist
Experience and Place
33. Marketing a Sense of Place to Tourists: A Critical
Perspective
34. The Importance of Built Heritage in the English Seaside
Experience
35. Island Tourist Experiences
36. Delivering Appealing and
Competitive Rural Wine Tourism Experiences
37. Wilderness Tourism:
Nature-Based Tourist Experiences in Wild Places Section 5: Creating and
Mediating the Tourist Experience
38. Designing the Tourist Experience: A
Marketing Perspective
39. Tourist Experience: A Marketing Perspective
40.
Value Co-Creation in Tourism Eco-Systems: Operant and Operand Resources
41.
Place-Based Education, Cemetery Visitation and the Tourist Experience
42.
Service Experiences and Innovation in the Hospitality Industry
43. Tour
Guides as Mediators of Commemoration, Education and Holiday Making: The
Anthropology of the Dark Tourism Experience in Berlin
44. Experience Design
in the Smart Tourism Destination
Richard Sharpley is Professor of Tourism and Development at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK. His research interests lie within two broad areas tourism and sustainable development and the tourist experience and he has researched and published widely in both.
