Tourist experience : a new introduction / edited by Chris Ryan.
Contributor(s): Ryan, Chris
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Material type: 
BookSeries: Studies in tourism.Publisher: London : Cassell, 1996Description: 192 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.ISBN: 0304338060.Subject(s): TourismDDC classification: 338.4791 | Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Barcode | |
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| General lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Lending | 338.4791 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00014851 |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 206-226) and indexes.
The chase of a dream, the end of a play / Chris Ryan -- Similar motivations - diverse behaviours / Chris Ryan -- From motivation to assessment / Chris Ryan -- Vital encounters: When tourists contact travel agents / Andrew Cliff and Chris Ryan -- Making or breaking the tourist experience: the role of human resource management / Tom Baum -- Urban tourism: Analysing and evaluating the tourist experience / Stephen Page -- Special event motivations and behaviour / Donald Getz and Joanne Cheyne -- Memories of the beach / Chris Ryan -- Heritage tourism under post-modernity: truth and the past / Keith Hollinshead -- 'The time of our lives' or time for our lives: An examination of time in holidaying / Chris Ryan.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- 1 Stages, gazes and constructions of tourism
- 2 Motives, behaviours, body and mind
- 3 From motivation to assessment
- 4 Vital encounters: When tourists contact travel agents
- 5 Making or breaking the tourist experience: The role of human resource management
- 6 Urban tourism; Evaluating tourists? experience of urban places
- 7 Special event motives and behaviour
- 8 Memories of the beach
- 9 Playing with the past: Heritage tourism under the tyrannies of postmodern discourse
- 10 ?The time of our lives? or time for our lives: An examination of time in holidaying