Tourist Experiences, livre ebook

Provides timely insights into the links between past and present research in the application of psychological theories to tourist behaviour

This book explores the application of psychological theories to tourist behaviour and experiences. It traces the evolution of those theories and how they have changed in response to broader social and economic changes. Among those changes have been the development of tourism, which reflects those social changes and contributes to them. In doing so, tourism theories also contribute to and gain insights from emergent psychological theories including those derived from the neurosciences. The book provides both undergraduate and postgraduate students with an understanding of core psychological perspectives derived from both humanistic and empirical psychology and their application to tourist behaviours and experiences.

Tables and Figures

Preface

Chapter 1. Introduction

Chapter 2. Motivations – ‘Push and Pull’

Chapter 3. Expectations and Gap Analysis

Chapter 4. Flow Theory and its Applications to Tourism

Chapter 5. The Concept of the Travel Career

Chapter 6. The Roles Tourists Play

Chapter 7. Authenticity: Types and Roles 

Chapter 8. Making the Unfamiliar Familiar: Place Attachment

Chapter 9. Experiencing Holiday Time

Chapter 10. Coda

References

Index