Imagination and Differences in Tourist Experience

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ID12855928
AuthorsJ Lengkeek (corresponding author)
Year2000
Volume42
Issue3
Pages11-17
Publication date2000-01-01
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueWorld Leisure & Recreation (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1026-1133 • E-ISSN: 2333-4509
PublisherTaylor & Francis (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/04419057.2000.9674191
OpenAlexW2018993749
LanguageEN
Citations received4
References cited11

Tourists differ in their experience and appreciation of tourist sites. There have been many attempts to capture the differences between tourists in a number of typologies. The problem is, however, that these typologies are based on different theoretical considerations and methodologies. Therefore, they cannot be easily compared. In this article I will suggest the contours of a typology that has a basis in imagination and leisure theory and offers a starting point for constructing leisure typologies which can be differentiated and specified according to different settings and leisure activities. I have drawn inspiration from the typology that Cohen used in his ‘modes of tourist experience’ back in 1979. His theoretical will be thought reconsidered and reformulated. The new approach enables a translation into typologies tailored to particular free-time activities and free-time contexts, and comparison between different areas of leisure activity. Moreover, the newly formulated modes of experience offer a basis for considered policy intervention, linking types of experience to spatial or social conditions on which they depend

Epistemology · Intervention (counseling · Point (geometry · Political science · Sociology · Tourism · Typology · Diverse Aspects of Tourism Research · Mathematics · Philosophy · Psychology · Recreation, Leisure, Wilderness Management · Social Psychology · Sport and Mega-Event Impacts

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