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This chapter highlights the key welfare issues with regard to elephant attractions and presents the findings of a survey of tourists who have previously visited elephant attractions in Asia which aimed to find out more about their motivations, the activities they undertook, their experiences and...
In this chapter the motivations of garden visiting are explored at a deeper level, into the realm of psychology and psychological drivers to gardens. This research area is called "semiotics". It is suggested that examination of the five senses would be a major indicator of semiotics as much of what ...
This chapter reflects on the ethics of hunting, taking into account the motivation of hunting for meat versus the motivation of the hunting tourist which is mainly focused on the quality of the trophy and/or on obtaining a trophy from a new or exotic species. It is also suggested that the manner in ...
This chapter evaluates the characteristics of the adventure tourism customer, differentiating each into market segments and looking at motivations. It also explores the growth of lifestyle sports and the influence of the internet in propagating lifestyles and new types of adventure activities....
This chapter looks at the trends in tourism that affect the development of routes, branded trails and circuits as means of structuring the traveller's experiences. The desire for richer experiences and adventure among today's travellers, the return to local and authentic, the slow tourism movement, ...
This chapter provides an overview of how tourism routes can be categorized according to principal motivations for travel. Four of the categories are examined: cultural tours and circuits; themed and branded driving routes; cycling routes; and long-distance walking trails. A case study is presented...
This chapter provides a comprehensive introduction to both consumer motivation and to marketing in a tourism context. It provides an outline of the strategies and methods used by tourism businesses to play to consumer motivations in order to positively influence consumer behaviour. The chapter...
This chapter aims to identify the motivations behind voluntourism, categorizing them into types so as to provide a foundation upon which we might better assess why it is that so many voluntourists seek to work with children, often in institutional environments. Particular attention is paid to...
This chapter discusses two types of factors (determinant and motivational) that influence tourism demand relative to whether to purchase a particular tourism product.
This chapter focuses on the role that reading novels might play in influencing how tourists imagine the American West as both a real and mythical space. It examines the myths of travel through the West through three well-known novels: The Virginian (Wister, 1902), The Dude Ranger (Grey, 1952), and ...