Tourism Behaviour

Affective Tourism explores how and in what ways affects, emotions and drives are felt and performed in tourism encounters in places of socio-political turmoil such as Jordan, Palestine/Israel and Iraq. It offers a new way of theorising tourism encounters bringing together, critically examining and e..

Affective Tourism explores how and in what ways affects, emotions and drives are felt and performed in tourism encounters in places of socio-political turmoil such as Jordan, Palestine/Israel and Iraq. It offers a new way of theorising tourism encounters bringing together, critically examining and e..

Children’s and Families’ Holiday Experience is the first volume to consider the active social role of children (0 – 18) as well as parents in shaping the nature of the family holiday experience. It provides significant insights into the holiday desires, expectations, and experiences of children and ..

China Watching adopts cross-cultural communication and cultural studies approaches to look at China tourism. It provides interdisciplinary perspectives on issues relating to cultural identity in the broader contexts of cultural encounter with, and/or cultural representation of, China or Chinese tour..

The book is a collection of different investigations of Chinese consumer behaviours and psychology in tourism settings. _x005F_x000D_ This book was originally published as a special issue of the Journal of China Tourism Research...

This significant and timely volume aims to provide a focused analysis into tourist experiences that reflect their ever-increasing diversity and complexity, and their significance and meaning to tourists themselves. Written by leading international scholars, it offers new insight into emergent behavi..

This significant and timely volume aims to provide a focused analysis into tourist experiences that reflect their ever-increasing diversity and complexity, and their significance and meaning to tourists themselves. Written by leading international scholars, it offers new insight into emergent behavi..

The process of packing a bag is an everyday activity for tourists, where subtle, mundane mobilities overlap with larger global transitions. It is a complex negotiation of a range of spatial qualities and movements that forge relationships between ourselves, the bag, the task at hand and the situatio..

The growing acceptance and use of the Internet as an increasingly valuable travel tool has tourism and hospitality businesses taking a critical look at their business-to-customer online environments while pondering such questions as, “How do I get people to visit my Web site?” “Is ..

Positive Tourism..

This book offers a highly original contribution to the debate surrounding the demand for ethical and responsible holidays. It explores the concerns of responsible tourists, their motivational values and a detailed presentation of how these values inform their holiday choices. This book offers a new ..

This Handbook provides a current and comprehensive volume on the conceptual, theoretical and applied advancements on the behaviour of hospitality and tourism consumers, conveying the latest thinking and research. It offers significant new insight into service quality management, customer satisfactio..