In this fascinating book the contributors explore attitudes towards motivations for holidays, interactions with service providers as they affect the quality of the tourist experience, the nature of the holiday location and the events that occur there. The latter themes include essays on urban tourism, the beach as a holiday site, the role of festivals, and Disney as a form of heritage tourism. In this revised edition, new material is introduced on concepts of time, liminalities, emotional theatre and gender considerations, as well as more detail on the contribution of humanistic psychology to our understanding of tourist motives.

About the Author
For over 30 years, Trevor Stanley and Chris Ryan have co-authored highly successful editions of Accounting: An Introductory Framework. They bring a wealth of knowledge and understanding to the study of accounting, highlighting the logic, processes, issues and technology involved in the discipline.

Reviews
Stages, gazes and constructions of tourism. Motives, behaviours, body and mind. From motivation to assessment. Vital encounters: When tourists contact travel agents. Making or breaking the tourist experience: The role of human resource management. Urban tourism; Evaluating tourists? experience of urban places. Special event motives and behaviour. Memories of the beach. Playing with the past: Heritage tourism under the tyrannies of postmodern discourse. ?The time of our lives? or time for our lives: An examination of time in holidaying.



Book Information
ISBN 9780826457646
Author Chris Ryan
Format Paperback
Page Count 256
Imprint Cengage Learning EMEA
Publisher Cengage Learning EMEA
Weight(grams) 442g
Dimensions(mm) 243mm * 170mm * 15mm