Contemporary Tourist Experience by Richard Sharpley

Contemporary Tourist Experience by Richard Sharpley

This significant and timely volume aims to provide a focused analysis into tourist experiences that reflect their ever-increasing diversity and complexity, and their significance and meaning to tourists themselves. Written by leading international scholars, it offers new insight into emergent behaviours, motivations and sought meanings on the part of tourists based on five contemporary themes determined by current research activity in tourism experience:conceptualization of tourist experience; dark tourism experiences; the relationship between motivation and the contemporary tourist experience; the manner in which tourist experience can be influenced and enhanced by place; and how managers and suppliers can make a significant contribution to the tourist experience. The book critically explores these experiences from multidisciplinary perspectives and includes case studies from wide range of geographical regions. By analyzing these contemporary tourist experiences, the book will provide further understanding of the consumption of tourism.

"Chapters are coherent in terms of writing style, depth of analysis, and the presentation of studiesFurthermore, the book includes diverse methodological approaches to the study of tourist experiences that range from more traditional positivist research methods, such as questionnaires (Chapter 3, 9), to in-depth qualitative interviews (Chapters 8, 11, 15), and less conventional methods, such as analyzing tourists' travel blogs (Chapter 6, 13), ethnographic methods (Chapter 5, 10), and a mixed method approach (Chapter 7, 14). Thus, overall, it is an interesting and useful book to tourism scholars, graduate students, and industry professionals." – Ilze Dziedataja, Manchester Metropolitan University, published in Tourism Analysis

Richard Sharpley is Professor of Tourism and Development at the University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK.

Philip Stone is a former management consultant within the tourism and hospitality sector, and is presently employed as a Senior Lecturer with the University of Central Lancashire Preston, UK.

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ISBN 13	9780415697422
ISBN 10	0415697425
Title	Contemporary Tourist Experience
Author	Richard Sharpley
Series	Advances In Tourism
Condition	Unavailable
Publisher	Taylor & Francis Ltd
Year published	2012-05-28
Number of pages	324
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