Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Contributors vii
4. Preface xiii
5. Introduction xv
6. Part 1: Understanding the Consumer Experience in Tourism and Leisure: Concepts and Issues
7. Chapter 1. The Dimensions of the Tourist Experience 3
8. Chapter 2. Searching for Escape, Authenticity and Identity: Experiences of ‘Lifestyle Travellers’ 27
9. Chapter 3. The Shaping of Tourist Experience: The Importance of Stories and Themes 43
10. Chapter 4. The Role and Meaning of Place in Cultural Festival Visitor Experiences 59
11. Part 2: Researching the Experience
12. Chapter 5. Research Processes for Evaluating Quality Experiences: Reflections from the ‘Experiences’ Field(s) 81
13. Chapter 6. Researching Visual Culture: Approaches for the Understanding of Tourism and Leisure Experiences 99
14. Chapter 7. ‘Been There, Done That’: Embracing our Post-trip Experiential Recollections through the Social Construction and Subjective Consumption of Personal Narratives 117
15. Chapter 8. Capturing Sensory Experiences Through Semi-Structured Elicitation Questions 137
16. Part 3: Managing the Experience
17. Chapter 9. Delivering Quality Experiences for Sustainable Tourism Development: Harnessing a Sense of Place in Monmouthshire 163
18. Chapter 10. Theatre in Restaurants: Constructing the Experience 182
19. Chapter 11. Tourism Memorabilia and the Tourism Experience 202
20. Chapter 12. The Experience Economy 10 Years On: Where Next for Experience Management? 218
21. Index 231