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Touristic Transcendence And Post Modern Flitting: An Exploration Of The Experiences Of Second Home Owners, Deirdre Quinn, Darach Turley
Touristic Transcendence And Post Modern Flitting: An Exploration Of The Experiences Of Second Home Owners, Deirdre Quinn, Darach Turley
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The focus of this article is the experience of the tourist as s/he moves between ordinary everyday non-tourist life and tourist life in the current postmodern consumption context.
A comprehensive review of the existing literature on second home consumption is presented. There is some emphasis on how it is practised by the Irish second home owner. This is a group that has been identified as being relatively under-researched in a consumer behaviour context; it is a group thst is affluent, growing and heterogeneous (Mottiar and Quinn 2003).
The vacation home is a complex issue within tourism being viewed as 'a …
Cts Dubrovnik 2005 Touristic Transcendence, Deirdre Quinn, Darach Turley
Cts Dubrovnik 2005 Touristic Transcendence, Deirdre Quinn, Darach Turley
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Research aims: This study aims to explore the experience of transition of the tourist as s/he transits between ordinary non-tourist life and tourist life, in the case of the second homeowner. Research approach: An emic approach employing an interpretive, ethnographic methodology was deemed to be particularly appropriate to these aims.