Contemporary Tourist Experience/ - London: Taylor & Francis, 2012.

Introduction: Experiencing Tourism, Experiencing Happiness?
Section 1: Conceptualising Tourism Experiences 1: Personal Experience Tourism: A Postmodern Understanding
2: The Habit of Tourism: Experiences and Their Ontological Meaning
3: Experiences of Valuistic Journeys: Motivation and Behaviour Section 2: Understanding Dark Tourism Experiences
4: Re- conceptualizing Dark Tourism
5: Dark Tourism as ‘Mortality Capital’: The Case of Ground Zero and the Significant Other Dead.
6: Towards an Understanding ‘Genocide Tourism’: An Analysis of Visitors' Accounts of Their Experience of Recent Genocide Sites Section 3: Motivation and the Contemporary Tourist Experience
7: Being Away or Being There? British Tourists’ Motivations Holidaying in Alanya, Turkey
8: Identity in Tourist Motivation and the Dynamics of Meaning
9: Bitten by the Twilight saga: From Pop Culture Consumer to Pop Culture Tourist Section 4: Place and the Tourist Experience
10: Volunteer Tourists' Experiences and Sense of Place: New Orleans
11: Family Place Experience and the Making of Places in Holiday Home Destinations: A Danish Case Study
12: Museums as Playful Venues in the Leisure Society Section 5: Managing Tourist Experiences
13: ‘We’ve seen it in the Movies, Let’s See if it’s True’: Motivation, Authenticity and Displacement in the Film-induced Tourism Experience.
14: Tourism Harassment Experiences in Jamaica
15: A Critical Evaluation of the UK ‘Grey’ Market’s Experience of the Overseas Package Holiday

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