This chapter explores the relationship between visitors' evaluations of tourist sites and the presence of other people pictured in photographs of those sites. The investigations were carried out in laboratory environments with the use of photographs of tourist sites in Nagasaki City, Japan. The...

This chapter pays particular attention to sightseeing tours in order to understand better the implications of the new trend for experiential travel and tourism behaviour. Primary data collection was conducted in Budapest (Hungary) to examine whether there are sightseeing tours designed according to ...

This chapter investigates which factors affect Australian tourists' (n=1231) decision to cancel or not to cancel when facing a critical unexpected event at the destination of their choice. In particular, it examines whether the nature of the crisis, traveller characteristics and trip...

This chapter examines the role and relevance of personal and trip characteristics in the holiday choice of British visitors (n=505) to Alanya, Turkey. The personal and trip related characteristics examined are gender, age, marital status, education, origin country, revisiting patterns, experience...

This chapter uses set theory as a methodological tool to investigate and understand better the structure of destination choice process. Results from a survey of German tourists (n=622) show that choice sets vary in regard to size, composition and the homogeneity of alternative destinations....

This chapter examines how the image perceptions of Italian and British travelers towards Italian organized crime affect visitor behaviour. In this study, a cross-cultural analysis aimed at assessing the similarities and differences between Italian and UK interviewees was carried out. The results...

This chapter investigates the influence of social privilege and culture on the constraints of Iranian women who travel for leisure and pleasure. Focus group interviews with 26 women revealed seven types of constraints or 'constraint themes'. The first two themes, which underlay most of the...

This chapter examines the extent to which cultural distance influences tourist behaviour in comparison with travel distance. This is accomplished by examining the profile, travel patterns and activities of eight different markets (Japan, France, Thailand, Australia, Singapore, the USA, Malaysia,...

This chapter presents a brief overview of how consumer behaviour research has developed over the years, and introduces the content of this book on tourist behaviour.

This book aims to review and to stimulate interest in a number of emerging and fresh topics in tourist behaviour and experience from a distinctively contemporary perspective. It has been designed to follow a systematic order, following the major stages of the consumer behaviour model. The book has...