Tourist experience : contemporary perspectives / edited by Richard Sharpley and Philip R. Stone.
To consume tourism is to consume experiences. An understanding of the ways in which tourists experience the places and people they visit is therefore fundamental to the study of the consumption of tourism. Consequently, it is not surprising that attention has long been paid in the tourism literature...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
2011.
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| Series: | Routledge advances in tourism ;
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Table of Contents:
- Book Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; Contributors; Introduction: Thinking about the tourist experience; 1 Ways of conceptualising the tourist experience: a review of literature; Section 1 Dark tourism experiences: mediating between life and death; 2 Exploring the conceptual and analytical framing of dark tourism: from darkness to intentionality; 3 Thanatourism and the commodification of space in post-war Croatia and Bosnia; Section 2 Experiencing poor places.