Description |
1 online resource (ix, 189 pages) : illustrations |
Series |
Aspects of tourism ; [51]
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Aspects of tourism ; 51.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 162-182) and indexes. |
Contents |
Preface; 1 Pathways to Understanding; 2 The Digital Tourist; 3 The Tourist in Trouble; 4 The Tourists' Footprints; 5 Dimensions of Personal Change; 6 Tourists Connecting to Others; 7 Additional Perspectives; References; Index. |
Summary |
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, cogn. |
Language |
English. |
Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
Subject |
Travelers -- Psychology.
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Tourism -- Psychological aspects.
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Tourism -- Social aspects.
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Behavioural theory (Behaviourism) |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. |
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. |
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Tourism -- Psychological aspects |
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Tourism -- Social aspects |
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Travelers -- Psychology |
Other Form: |
Print version: Pearce, Philip L. Tourist behaviour and the contemporary world. Bristol ; Buffalo : Channel View Publications, ©2011 9781845412227 (DLC) 2011027892 (OCoLC)751836154 |
ISBN |
9781845412234 (electronic bk.) |
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1845412230 (electronic bk.) |
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9781845412241 (EPUB) |
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1845412249 (EPUB) |
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9786613333353 |
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6613333352 |
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128333335X |
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9781283333351 |
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9781845412227 |
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1845412222 |
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9781845412210 |
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1845412214 |
Standard No. |
9786613333353 |
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