Tourist experience : contemporary perspectives

1. Stages, gazes and constructions of tourism. 2. Motives, behaviours, body and mind. 3. From motivation to assessment. 4. Vital encounters: When tourists contact travel agents. 5. Making or breaking the tourist experience: The role of human resource management. 6. Urban tourism Evaluating tourists experience of urban places. 7. Special event motives and behaviour. 8. Memories of the beach. 9. Playing with the past: Heritage tourism under the tyrannies of postmodern discourse. 10. 'The time of our lives or time for our lives: An examination of time in holidaying.