ABSTRACT
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
part I|48 pages
Conceptualising tourist experiences
part II|53 pages
Understanding dark tourism experiences
chapter 5|24 pages
Dark tourism as ‘mortality capital'
chapter 6|15 pages
Towards an understanding of ‘genocide tourism'
part III|54 pages
Motivation and the contemporary tourist experience
chapter 7|17 pages
Being away or being there?
part IV|51 pages
Place and the tourist experience
chapter 11|20 pages
Family place experience and the making of places in holiday home destinations
part V|18 pages
Managing tourist experiences