Perceived risk and novelty-seeking behavior : the case of tourists on low-cost travel in Algarve (Portugal) / Ant(c)Øonia Correia, Adriano Pimp(c)Þao, Geoffrey Crouch -- Mural-based tourism as a strategy for rural community economic development / Rhonda L.P. Koster -- Industrial tourism theory...

This volume provides specific answers to hard questions about how to create valid metrics to measure the effectiveness of tourism advertising and the usefulness of destination marketing websites. It provides reviews, analysis and comparisons of tourism literature, advertisements and websites as...

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...

Storytelling-case archetype decoding and assignment manual (SCADAM) reviews cultural and tourism/hospitality applications of Carl Jung's work on archetypes in shaping behavior and unconscious/conscious thought. SCADAM includes a testing manual on how to use Donald T. Campbell's "degrees of...

Luxury Fashion and Culture focuses on the study of how humans use high quality, highly pleasurable, and frequently rare products, services, and experiences to distinguish to themselves and others who they are as well as well as whom they are not both within and across cultures. Luxury fashion...

The authors propose that complexity theory holds great promise in improving understanding of guests evaluations of their service experiences. Volume 9 provides answers to the following and additional behavior and evaluation issues. How do general and behavior specific attitudes work together in...

The volume examines unconscious and conscious cognitions occurring before, during and following virtual and actual leisure-related planned and unplanned travel. It includes a global review of the literature on tourists perceptions and assessments by Woodside and Metin.

Theory of brand enabling archetype enactment by consumer -- Literature review -- Method : story listening and collection -- Archetype processing and story analysis -- Creator archetype -- Every person archetype -- Explorer archetype -- Hero archetype -- Innocent archetype -- Jester archetype --...

Volume 3 examines how research tools affect theory advances in culture and tourism research. Using visual narrative art to explicate unconscious thinking that shapes trip plans and visits, building tree diagrams of streams of antecedent conditions associating with extreme behavior (e.g., road...