TY - BOOK TI - Contemporary Tourist Experience SN - 9780203139110 PY - 2012/// CY - London PB - Taylor & Francis KW - Tourism – Hospitality KW - Tourism Development N1 - 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 UR - http://www.tandfebooks.com/isbn/9780203139110 ER -