Tourism And Humour

Author : Philip L. Pearce
Publisher : Channel View Publications
ISBN 13 : 1845415116
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tourism and Humour written by Philip L. Pearce and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2015-06-12 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about humour in all kinds of tourism settings. It discusses the many ways in which humour can occur during tourism exchanges including guided tours, tourism marketing and promotion and travel narratives. Other themes include the role of humour in enhancing the tourist experience, the benefits of tourism humour, considerations of when humour may appear inappropriate in tourism settings and the development of tourism humour theory. The work includes much original material collected by the authors. The book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers of tourism as well as humour scholars from other disciplines.

Author : Philip L. Pearce
Publisher : Channel View Publications
ISBN 13 : 1845415094
Total Pages : 182 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tourism and Humour written by Philip L. Pearce and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2015 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about humour in all kinds of tourism settings. It discusses the many ways in which humour can occur during tourism exchanges including guided tours, tourism marketing and promotion and travel narratives. Other themes include the role of humour in enhancing the tourist experience, the benefits of tourism humour, considerations of when humour may appear inappropriate in tourism settings and the development of tourism humour theory. The work includes much original material collected by the authors. The book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers of tourism as well as humour scholars from other disciplines.

Author : Sebastian Filep
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317478908
Total Pages : 341 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Positive Tourism written by Sebastian Filep and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-10-04 with total page 341 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism affects millions of individuals, numerous societies and environments in multiple, nuanced and overlapping ways. While it can be viewed as a frivolous leisure pursuit or simply a large industry, with potentially destructive impacts, it might also be understood in terms of its effects on human fulfilment, the good life and greater well-being. This book calls for positive tourism, principally grounded in theories from positive psychology (the study of what makes life worth living), and the development of a body of knowledge that explains what characterises optimal tourist experiences, what enables host communities to flourish and what encourages workers in tourism to thrive. Through original research studies reported in this international volume we aim to further develop this knowledge. The intersections between ongoing and traditionally inspired applications of psychology in tourism and this new thrust in psychological inquiry promise to refresh and challenge tourism research. This book will appeal to researchers and academics in tourism, leisure, positive psychology, management and related fields as well as graduate students, professionals and policy makers.

Author : Tej Vir Singh
Publisher : Channel View Publications
ISBN 13 : 1845418573
Total Pages : 228 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tourism as a Pathway to Hope and Happiness written by Tej Vir Singh and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2022-12-05 with total page 228 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tourism is often viewed as a phenomenon that brings out the worst in human nature. Self-interest, overuse of resources, injustice and cultural erosion are but a few examples. This book explores the contrasting view that tourism can be a pathway to hope and happiness. The chapters address areas including wellbeing, positive psychology, hopeful tourism, mindfulness, peace, responsible tourism and spirituality. The volume examines the role of tourism in preserving natural wonders and architectural masterpieces, bringing out the best in tourists and locals and adding economic value if planned, developed and managed sustainably. It will be a useful resource for students and researchers in tourism, psychology and philosophy.

Author : Lidia Dina Sciama
Publisher : Berghahn Books
ISBN 13 : 1782385436
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Humour, Comedy and Laughter written by Lidia Dina Sciama and published by Berghahn Books. This book was released on 2016-04-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropological writings on humor are not very numerous or extensive, but they do contain a great deal of insight into the diverse mental and social processes that underlie joking and laughter. On the basis of a wide range of ethnographic and textual materials, the chapters examine the cognitive, social, and moral aspects of humor and its potential to bring about a sense of amity and mutual understanding, even among different and possibly hostile people. Unfortunately, though, cartoons, jokes, and parodies can cause irremediable distress and offence. Nevertheless, contributors’ cross-cultural evidence confirms that the positive aspects of humor far outweigh the danger of deepening divisions and fueling hostilities

Author : Miriam Firth
Publisher : Channel View Publications
ISBN 13 : 1845417291
Total Pages : 292 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Service Encounters in Tourism, Events and Hospitality written by Miriam Firth and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2020-01-30 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers insights into the demands made on staff in service encounters in tourism, events and hospitality roles. Using data from research completed in these industries, it hinges upon storied incidents offered by workers about which the reader can reflect and apply theoretical knowledge. A key feature of this volume is that it focuses on staff perspectives and perceptions of service encounters and delivery rather than on customer or management perspectives. This will provide students, lecturers, management and customers with fresh and clear understandings of the demands made on staff, but also the perspectives from which the demands are seen. The chapters clarify to students how to apply academic knowledge within customer service contexts and include learning objectives, questions and summaries.

Author : Philip L. Pearce
Publisher : Channel View Publications
ISBN 13 : 1845412249
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tourist Behaviour and the Contemporary World written by Philip L. Pearce and published by Channel View Publications. This book was released on 2011-10-06 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume seeks to review and stimulate interest in a number of emerging and fresh topics in contemporary tourist behaviour and experience. Topics explored include the effects of newer technologies on tourists’ behaviour and experience, tourists’ experience of scams, safety and personal responsibility, individual perspectives on sustainability, and some dimensions of tourists’ personal growth, relationships and altruism. The topics are bound together by an integrative approach to conceptualising experience which is seen as an ensemble of orchestrated sensory inputs; affective reactions; cognitive mechanisms used to think about and understand the setting; actions undertaken and the relevant relationships which define the participants’ world. A special emphasis is placed on tourists’ stories as a pathway to access the nature of tourists’ experience. Potential research directions in the field are indicated throughout.

Author : H.E. Sawyer
Publisher : SCB Distributors
ISBN 13 : 1909394599
Total Pages : 411 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book I Am The Dark Tourist written by H.E. Sawyer and published by SCB Distributors. This book was released on 2018-08-20 with total page 411 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Dark Tourism is the practice of visiting sites associated with death. While participation increases, dark tourism remains a mystery, regarded as the tourist industry’s dirty little secret. This book challenges the misconceptions of a ghoulish practice through the eyes of a self-confessed dark tourist, who has spent forty years visiting the world’s dark sites. From the cobbled streets of Whitechapel on a Jack The Ripper walking tour to the snowy suicide forest of Aokigahara, Japan, H. E. Sawyer ticks off the darkest sites on earth. He visits locations that have promoted themselves to become major tourist attractions, contrasting with those dark places that seek to remain hidden from view. In the course of his travels he wrestles with the ultimate question regarding dark tourism; why would anyone want to visit sites touched by death in the first place?

Author : Sabrina Francesconi
Publisher : Tangram Ediz. Scientifiche
ISBN 13 : 8864580565
Total Pages : 133 pages
Book Rating : 4.62/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Generic Integrity and Innovation in Tourism Texts in English written by Sabrina Francesconi and published by Tangram Ediz. Scientifiche. This book was released on 2012 with total page 133 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : K.J. James
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134681127
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.29/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tourism, Land and Landscape in Ireland written by K.J. James and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2014-06-20 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This study, exploring a broad range of evocative Irish travel writing from 1850 to 1914, much of it highly entertaining and heavily laced with irony and humour, draws out interplays between tourism, travel literature and commodifications of culture. It focuses on the importance of informal tourist economies, illicit dimensions of tourism, national landscapes, ‘legend’ and invented tradition in modern tourism.