ABSTRACT
The purpose of this chapter is to examine the ways in which tourists have been defined, described and classified. Without stepping into the domains of psychology or marketing, which are the subject of other books and other authors (cf. Pearce, 1982; Seaton and Bennett, 1996), the ways in which motivation has been ascribed to tourists by anthropologists and other academics is discussed. In particular, this chapter aims to:
• investigate various modes of tourist experience; • develop a preliminary discussion about tourist motivation;
(and) • discuss the notion of tourism as consumerism.
