Tourist Behaviour and Contemporary Worhb

This volume seeks to review and stimulate interest in 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 and individual perspectives on sustainability.

About the author

Philip L. Pearce is the Foundation Professor of Tourism and a Distinguished Professor at James Cook University, Australia. He has written and edited 18 tourism books and has around 300 publications. His long-standing interests are studies in tourist behaviour and experience. He is well known for his work on travel motivation, and approaches to tourists' experience as well as special topics including humour stemming from positive psychology. He works with his PhD students and international colleagues using a variety of methods and approaches. Most studies are done in settings in Asia, Australia and Europe.

Summary

This volume seeks to review and stimulate interest in 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 and individual perspectives on sustainability.

Product details

• Authors: Philip L Pearce, Philip L. Pearce
• Publisher: Multilingual Matters Limited
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 06.10.2011
• EAN: 9781845412227
• ISBN: 978-1-84541-222-7
• No. of pages: 200
• Dimensions: 157 mm x 236 mm x 15 mm
• Weight: 431 g
• Series: Aspects of Tourism; Aspects of Tourism (Hardcover); Aspects of Tourism; Aspects of Tourism (Hardcover)
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Psychology > Theoretical psychology; Social sciences, law, business > Business > Individual industrial sectors, branches