List of contributors ......................................... x
Introduction: Experiencing tourism, experiencing happiness? .. 1
RICHARD SHARPLEY AND PHILIP R. STONE
PART I
Conceptualising tourist experiences ............................. 9
1 Personal experience tourism: A postmodern understanding ..... 11
ANA GOYTIA PRAT AND ÁLVARO DE LA RICA ASPIUNZA
2 The habit of tourism: Experiences and their ontological
meaning ..................................................... 25
GRAHAM К. HENNING
3 Experiences of valuistic journeys: Motivation and
behaviour ................................................... 38
DARIUS LIUTIKAS
PART II
Understanding dark tourism experiences ......................... 57
4 Reconceptualising dark tourism .............................. 59
AVITAL BIRAN AND YANIV PORIA
5 Dark tourism as 'mortality capital': The case of Ground
Zero and the Significant Other Dead
PHILIP R. STONE
6 Towards an understanding of 'genocide tourism':
An analysis of visitors' accounts of their experience of
recent genocide sites ....................................... 95
RICHARD SHARPLEY
PART III
Motivation and the contemporary tourist experience ............ 111
7 Being away or being there? British tourists' motivations
holidaying in Alanya, Turkey ............................... 113
MUHAMMET KESGIN, ALI BAKIR AND EUGENIA WICKENS
8 Identity in tourist motivation and the dynamics of
meaning .................................................... 130
KARINA M. SMED
9 Bitten by the Twilight Saga: From pop culture consumer to
pop culture tourist ........................................ 147
CHRISTINE LUNDBERG AND MARIA LEXHAGEN
PART IV
Place and the tourist experience .............................. 165
10 Volunteer tourists' experiences and sense of place: New
Orleans .................................................... 167
JENNIFER L. ERDELY
11 Family place experience and the making of places in
holiday home destinations: A Danish case study ............. 181
JACOB R. KIRKEGAARD LARSEN AND LEA HOLST LAURSEN
12 Museums as playful venues in the leisure society ........... 201
BABAK TAHERI AND ALIAKBAR JAFARI
PART V
Managing tourist experiences .................................. 217
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 ................................. 219
PETER BOLAN, STEPHEN BOYD AND JIM BELL
14 Tourism harassment experiences in Jamaica .................. 235
TIFFANIE L. SKIPPER, BARBARA A. CARMICHAEL AND SEAN
DOHERTY
15 The UK 'grey' market's holiday experience .................. 255
BRIDGET MAJOR AND FRASER McLEAY
References ................................................. 272
Index ...................................................... 306
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