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The SAGE Handbook of Tourism Management is a critical, state-of-the-art and authoritative review of tourism management, written by leading international thinkers and academics in the field. With a strong focus on theories, concepts and disciplinary approaches to tourism studies, the chapters in this volume are framed as critical synoptic pieces covering key developments, current issues and debates, and emerging trends and future considerations for the field. Part One: Researching Tourism Part Two: Social Analysis Part Three: Economic Analysis Part Four: Technological Analysis Part Five: Environmental Analysis Part Six: Political Analysis This handbook offers a fresh and definitive look at tourism management, making it an essential resource for academics, researchers and students.
Psychology of Tourism
Psychology of Tourism
Introduction
It is daunting for many tourism researchers to open a large psychology textbook, even an introductory one. The topics and concepts tumble across the pages: perception, motivation, learning, cognition, emotion, memory, personality, intelligence, decision making, attitudes, and group behaviour (Furnham, 2008; Martin et al., 2013). They are all enticing chapters. Most seem applicable to those who study facets of either the travel experience of tourists or the actions and thoughts of those who organise and manage that travel.
The separation of the topics in psychology is of course partly an artefact of text-book writing. In reality, the study of the lived experiences of individuals, including tourists, requires a recognition that these individual psychological ...
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