Sensory Tourism

Senses and SenseScapes Encompassing Tourism Destinations
Until now the notion of sensory perception and its link to the holiday experience has not been studied in any depth. This book explores aspects of the senses both through a theoretical framework as well as the more practical aspects of the tourist product, it evaluates the experience of the whole tourist package or journey engaged in the senses.
Tourism offers countless global locations, providing a multitude of sensory experiences. These include commercialised 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 urbanisation 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.

Contributor: Ian Jenkins (Edited by), Robert S. Bristow (Edited by), Hilary Becker (Contributions by), Émilie Crossley (Contributions by), Sara Duerte (Contributions by), Carlos Ferreira (Contributions by), Carla Fraga (Contributions by), Elisa Alén González (Contributions by), Rubén C. Lois-González (Contributions by), Hairul Nizam Ismail (Contributions by), Sofie Scheen Jahnsen (Contributions by), Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson (Contributions by), Claudette John (Contributions by), Margaret Kenna (Contributions by), Jaciel Gustavo Kunz (Contributions by), Katrín Anna Lund (Contributions by), Sharanya M (Contributions by), Chandru M C (Contributions by), Velvet Nelson (Contributions by), Nur Haizum Abd Rahman (Contributions by), Breixo Martins Rodal (Contributions by), Carlos Alberto Patiño Romarís (Contributions by), Lucia Rubio (Contributions by), Bidisha Sarkar (Contributions by), Deborah Slater (Contributions by), Patricia A. Stokowski (Contributions by), Philip Stone (Contributions by), Tim Taylor (Contributions by), Kathryn Terzano (Contributions by), Trinidad Domínguez Vila (Contributions by), Dr Pola Q. Wang (Contributions by), Aristeidis Gkoumas (Contributions by), Nur Hidayah Abd Rahman (Contributions by), Karen Davies (Contributions by)

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