Sensory Tourism

Sensory Tourism

Senses and SenseScapes Encompassing Tourism Destinations

Edited by Ian Jenkins, PhD and Robert S. Bristow
Hardback
November 2024
9781800623583
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  • Publisher
    CABI
  • Published
    7th November
  • ISBN 9781800623583
  • Language English
  • Pages 304 pp.
  • Size 6" x 9"
$130.00
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Tourism offers countless global locations, providing a multitude of sensory experiences. These include commercialized tourism products such as saunas and floatation tanks through to natural phenomenon such as mountains and wilderness destinations. Consequently, sensory elements are a curious concept within tourism because every destination provides a sensory experience of one kind or another.

The first of its kind, this book examines holidays and tourism through sensory perceptions which either encourage or deter consumers. It studies sensoryscapes and how they effect and affect tourism at destinations and be linked with the development of tourist niches, reflecting the segmenting of the mass market tourism into smaller segments. Finally, it reflects on how with increased urbanization there a growing need is to find quiet spaces, free from urban or anthropogenic noise, such as silent retreats and dark sky meditation holidays. Escape has always been one of the main components of tourism development together with attraction to spatial locations that match tourists' needs.

Structed to address each of the senses separately, this book provides a:

· wide range of case studies from interdisciplinary backgrounds

· links amongst common themes across the various threads of research on sensory experiences

· theoretical framework and practical application for sensory tourism.

It will be of interest to those studying tourism management as well as wider social science disciplines.

Ian Jenkins, PhD

Dr. Ian Jenkins is a geographer who has worked in the tourism and leisure industries for the last twenty seven years as a researcher, senior lecturer, consultant and director of several research units. His work has resulted in numerous publications including industry reports, conference papers, academic articles and book chapters; he has also been a peer reviewer for journal articles. Some of the research projects he has been involved with have resulted in legislative change and improved industry standards. In addition, he has undertaken work for prestigious organizations such as UNESCO, British Council, British Standards Institute, Health and Safety Executive, VisitWales and CEN. His research and consultancy expertise covers subjects such as: responsible/sustainable tourism, niche tourism development, risk and safety management and adventure tourism. Ian is currently an examiner for the University of South Wales and has recently been an external examiner for the University of Birmingham at both undergraduate and postgraduate level and also a PhD examiner at Cranfield University. Ian has been the co-editor of a special edition of the Laureate Hospitality Journal.

Robert S. Bristow

Robert Bristow is Professor Emeritus at Westfield State University. As a geographer, he has been involved with the planning and management of parks and protected areas throughout his academic and personal career. He has taught undergraduate and graduate courses in travel and tourism, quantitative methods, GIS and site planning. He has published over 70 research papers in peer-reviewed journals, government documents, community plans, and book chapters and has delivered a similar number of presentations at regional, national and international conferences. For parks and protected lands he has expertise in volunteer management, cultural landscape monitoring and hiking. Applying the remote sensing tools of LiDAR has been used to identify and manage our cultural resources in parks. When not outside his research agenda has focussed on the liminality of fright tourism.

Sensory tourism; sensory stimuli; sensory experiences; smell sense experiences; visual experiences; taste sense experience; spa holidays; leisure in the countryside; mountain tourism; wellbeing and the ocean; sensory theme parks; dark sky tourism; yoga tourism; peace and quiet; food tourism; clean air and wellbeing; wellbeing and silence; noise within tourism; touch sense experiences; sensory perception; slow tourism