Now fully revised and updated, the fourth edition of this bestselling text provides students with a vital understanding of the nature of tourism and contemporary tourist behaviour. It also shows them how this knowledge can be used to manage and market tourism effectively in a variety of sectors of tourism including tour operations, hospitality, visitor attractions, transport, retail travel, cruising and airlines. This fourth edition has been updated to include: new material on the impact of Information Communication Technologies (ICT) developments in tourism including social media, AR and VR, the links between climate change, sustainability and tourist behaviour, and the impact of crises and natural disasters on tourism and the cruise industry thirty brand new international case studies about topical issues such as Airbnb, travel blogs, overtourism, Covid-19, the flight-shaming movement, wellness tourism, hunting and tourism, terrorism, dark tourism, the solo traveller, volunteer tourism, second home ownership, music festivals, pilgrimage tourism, film- and TV-induced tourism, and tourism in Antarctica new online resources including PowerPoint slides and a case archive. Each chapter features conclusions, discussion points, essay questions and exercises to help tutors direct student-centred learning and allow students to check their understanding of what they have read. This book is an invaluable resource for students studying tourism.
This guide offers essential research strategies and methods that enables readers to determine the wants and needs of tourists, including: discussing and evaluating the main factors that affect consumer behavior in travel and tourism, such ...
The chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue of the Journal of Global Scholars of Marketing Science.
'Expectations and norms in models of consumer satisfaction', Journal of Marketing Research, 24(3): 305–314. ... The Customer Delight Principle: Exceeding Customers' Expectations for Bottom-Line Success, Chicago, IL: McGraw-Hill.
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The chapters in this volume provide tools and evidence useful for deep understanding of tourists’ buying, consumption, and being through examinations of consumers’ self-descriptions of personal markers of their trip configurations.
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Drawing on global experiences, this new book looks at the diverse factors that create these positive experiences and provides insight into marketing and consumer behavior in the context of hospitality and tourism.
Stereotypes studies Numerous studies have investigated the stereotypes of national groups and different types of stereotypes have been identified (Brewer, 1978, 1984; Boissevain and Inglott, 1979; Buchanan and Cantril, 1953; ...
With contributions from authors in over 15 countries, the book presents an interdisciplinary approach of the latest research in tourist behaviour.
Chon , K.S. , Christianson , D.J. and Lee , C.L. ( 1994 ) Contemporary research issues related tourist satisfaction and dissatisfaction . In : Gasser , R.V. and Weiermair , K. ( eds . ) Spoilt for Choice . Decision Making Processes and ...