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Consumer Behavior in Tourism and Hospitality Research

Advances in Culture, Tourism and Hospitality Research

Series edited by Arch G. Woodside
Format: Hardback
Publisher: Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley, United Kingdom
Published: 9th Aug 2017
Dimensions: w 152mm h 229mm
ISBN-10: 178714691X
ISBN-13: 9781787146914
Barcode No: 9781787146914
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This portrait of contemporary tourists proposes that these travelers create consumption audio-portraits and self-explanations (identity constructions) through their purchases and use of travel-related services. Their configurations of destinations, accommodations, travel modes, in-route and destination activities, meal choices, sites/attractions visited, and their travel companions inform others and themselves about who they are. These understandings of self through travel are statements of being-where I've been and what I've done tells me and others who I am. Also, one's definition of self (being) affects tourists' future configurations of travel-related buying and consumption. Thus, tourism-related behavior and being represent virtuous and sometimes vicious consumption systems. Consequently, most tourists are identifiable by who they are and what they know about where they have been and what they have done via their summaries of their trips. The chapters in this volume provide tools and evidence useful for deep understanding of tourists' buying, consumption, and being through examinations of consumers' self-descriptions of personal markers of their trip configurations. This volume's core tenet is that thick descriptions and case-based models are essential steps for highly useful research and deep understanding of tourism behavior.

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In these papers from the 2015 Consumer Psychology of Tourism, Hospitality, and Leisure Symposium, international contributors provide tools for understanding tourism-related behavior and consumption cycles. As a whole, the book demonstrates that detailed descriptions and case-based models are better methods for researching tourism behavior. Emphasis is on the tourism consumer's understanding of self and identity through travel choices such as destinations, means of transportation, accommodations, meals, sites visited, activities, and purchase of travel-related services. Some specific subjects examined include choice overload research, Russian women travelers, and travel-related behavior on Facebook. B&W charts and screenshots are included. -- Annotation (c)2017 * (protoview.com) *