| Series |
Aspects of tourism
Aspects of tourism. ^A590491
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Defining the tourist and visitor -- The tourist attraction and hoteliers' dilemma -- Holidays -- source of personal and social change -- The holiday experience -- a search for the familiar? Or the unfamiliar? -- Holiday experiences -- a total experience or a series of unconnected experiences. -- Discussion of the model -- Motivations -- "push and pull" -- Introduction -- Push and pull -- a description -- Personality and holiday motives -- Pull Factors and relationship with push factors -- Image creation and push and pull -- Escape to or escape from -- Personality Traits -- Stimulus-Organism-Response Theories -- Arousal and neuroscience research -- The theories of societal dysfunction and holiday taking -- Summary and Conclusion -- Expectations and Gap Analysis -- Introduction -- Gap Analysis -- Where gaps occur -- The alternatives to ServQual -- Conclusions -- Flow theory and its applications to Tourism -- Introduction -- Concepts of flow -- Concepts of fields and domains -- Research and Applications with reference to leisure and holidaying -- Involvement, holidays and well-being -- Conclusions -- The concept of the Travel Career -- The Roles Tourists Play -- Introduction -- Describing tourist types -- The Beard and Ragheb Leisure Motivation Scale -- The roles that tourists assume -- The Impact of Social and Technological Change on Holidaying Roles -- Authenticity: types and roles -- Introduction -- Stimulus-organism-response theories -- The benefits gained -- Making the unfamiliar familiar -- forming place attachment -- The role of authenticity in the tourist experience -- Conclusion -- Making the unfamiliar familiar -- place attachment -- Introduction -- Holiday Homes and Place Attachment -- Place attachment -- Experiencing holiday Time -- Introduction -- Holiday time and the holiday home space -- Measuring time-keeping and social implications -- Developing chronogenesis -- Events and senses of time -- Time and gender differences in perceptions of time -- Age and time -- Images and time -- Summary. |
| Abstract |
"This book explores the application of psychological theories to tourist behaviour and experience. It offers new insights and provides final year and postgraduate students with an understanding of core psychological perspectives and an accessible resource within one volume for those researching tourist behaviour and consumer experiences"-- Provided by publisher. |
| Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Issued in other form | Online version: Ryan, Chris, 1945- Tourist experiences Jackson, TN : Channel View Publications, [2024] 9781845419257 |
| LCCN | 2023038107 |
| ISBN | 9781845419233 |
| ISBN | 1845419235 |
| ISBN | 9781845419240 (hardback) |
| ISBN | 1845419243 |
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| ISBN | (epub) |
