Tourist behaviour and the contemporary world / Philip L. Pearce.

ISBN:

9781845412210

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Author:

Pearce, Philip L.

Personal Author:

Pearce, Philip L.

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Physical Description:

ix, 189 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.

Series:

Aspects of tourism

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.Pathways to Understanding -- Introduction -- Behaviour and Experience -- Tourists: The Focus of Our Concern -- Whose Perspective -- Theory and Relevance -- Paradigms -- Levels of Analysis -- Phenomenon Sampling -- Key Conceptual Schemes -- Topics to be Explored -- 2.The Digital Tourist -- Introduction -- Technology and Tourist Information -- Technology Insights -- Additional Dimensions in Information Search -- On-Site Uses of Technology -- Facets of Technology -- Social Communication -- The Mobile Phone and the Internet -- Photography -- Way Finding -- Mobile Recommender Systems -- Entertainment and Interpretation -- Directions -- 3.The Tourist in Trouble -- Introduction -- Motivation Theory -- Attribution Theory -- Tourist Scams -- Responsibility and its Implications -- Crimes against Tourists -- Directions -- Health Challenges -- Directions -- 4.The Tourists' Footprints -- Introduction -- Symbolic Paths -- Patterns of Tourist Movement --

Contents note continued: Public Movement Patterns -- Perceived Crowding -- Fundamental Points in Crowding Management -- Conceptual Foundations of Crowding Studies -- Broader Movement Patterns -- Ecological Footprints -- Directions -- 5.Dimensions of Personal Change -- Introduction -- The Roots of Personal Change -- Approaches to Identity -- Tourists and Learning -- Tourists and Relationships -- Directions -- 6.Tourists Connecting to Others -- Introduction -- Tourists and Others: Reacting to Poverty -- The Disengaged -- Compartmentalisation -- The Lucky Self -- Empathy; Sympathy and the Self -- Corrective Actions -- Volunteer Tourism -- Humour -- Directions -- 7.Additional Perspectives -- Introduction -- Slow Tourism -- Spending Behaviour -- Shopping, Bargaining and Tipping -- Themed Tourist Behaviour -- Final Souvenirs.

Subject Term:

Travelers -- Psychology.

Tourism -- Psychological aspects.

Tourism -- Social aspects.

Format:

Books

Publication Date:

2011

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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; cognitive mechanisms used to think about and understand the setting; actions undertaken and the relevant relationships which define the participants' world. A special emphasis is placed on tourists' stories as a pathway to access the nature of tourists' experience. Potential research directions in the field are indicated throughout.

Author Notes

Philip Pearce is Foundation Professor of Tourism at James Cook University. He earned a Doctorate from the University of Oxford and has held a Fulbright scholarship at Harvard University. He has chaired and developed one of the leading tourism departments in Australia at James Cook University. He has won multiple awards for teaching including an Australian Learning and Teaching Council award for tourism education. He has written over 150 publications and 9 books on tourism. He is a foundation member of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism and was the Chief Editor of Australia¿s premier tourism journal, The Journal of Tourism Studies, from 1990- 2005.

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The field of tourism studies has grown to the extent that researchers are seeking new topics, models, and approaches. This concise volume attempts to fill this role. Pearce (tourism, James Cook Univ., Australia) provides a broad-ranging survey and discussion of understudied topics in the field of tourism research. The author writes from a multidisciplinary perspective, but his background in psychology comes through with topics such as tourist motivations, emotional reactions, behaviors, satisfaction, and learning. As a handbook for researchers and students, the volume works well by including a breadth of topics: the effects of newer technologies on the tourist experience, tourist safety, patterns of tourist movement, volunteer tourism, tourist ecological footprint, slow tourism, and more. Each chapter concludes with suggestions for future research, labeled "Directions." Note, however, that the writing tends to be dry, rather than lively or engaging. (The title of the volume is a good example.) Pearce also does not include more critical perspectives on race, gender, class, and culture. Thus, the readership is geared to those in tourism institutes that align themselves with marketing. Summing Up: Recommended. Upper-division undergraduates and above. C. R. Yano University of Hawai'i

1 1. Pathways to UnderstandingPhilip L. Pearce

2 2. The Digital TouristPhilip L. Pearce

3 3. The Tourist in TroublePhilip L. Pearce

4 4. The Tourists' FootprintsPhilip L. Pearce

5 5. Dimensions of Personal ChangePhilip L. Pearce

6 6. Tourists Connecting to OthersPhilip L. Pearce

7 7. Additional PerspectivesPhilip L. Pearce

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