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Exploring The Moments And Memory Of Tourist Experiences In Peru, Sarah Quinlan Cutler
Exploring The Moments And Memory Of Tourist Experiences In Peru, Sarah Quinlan Cutler
Theses and Dissertations (Comprehensive)
Tourist experiences offer anomalous and complex interactions between tourists and tourism places. The study of these experiences is the focus of this doctoral dissertation, which aims to explore subjective aspects of the tourist experience. This exploration involves the conceptualisation of tourist experiences and the development of a multi-phased research design that captures the perceptions of momentary in situ experiences and examines how these perceptions change over time.
The dissertation addresses under studied areas in tourism and answers calls for research into immediate conscious experiences and tourist centred methodology. This investigation into tourist experiences involves 21 participants who took an educational …