Most discussion of visitor experiences uses a behavioural or managerial approach where the way the visitor thinks is ignored - it's a black box. Visitor Experience Design is the first book of its kind to examine best practice in creating and delivering exciting and memorable travel and visitation experiences from a cognitive psychological perspective - it opens the black box. The chapters draw on recent findings from cognitive psychology, cognitive science and neuroscience to provide a basis for a better understanding of the antecedents of a memorable experience, including:· The psychological process of the formation or creation of a visitor's experiences· Psychological aspects of tourism experiences such as attention, emotion, memory and mindfulness· Pre-stage experience: customer inputs such as knowledge, myths, values and memories from previous travel · On-site experience: co-creation processes · Post-stage experience: immediate and long term outcomes including happiness and well-being· Experience design cases Tourism, hospitality and event managers seek to provide WOW experiences to their visitors through better design and management.This book encourages the discussion of different facets of experience design such as emotions, attentions, sensations, learning, the process of co-creation and experiential stimuli design.It will be of interest to tourism researchers and postgraduate students studying tourism management, marketing and product design.
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Suitable for tourism researchers and postgraduate students studying tourism management, marketing and product design.
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Part I Creating Memorable Experiences - Theories And Framework |
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1 Introduction: Creating Memorable Experiences |
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2 How Psychology Can Stimulate Tourist Experience Studies |
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3 Tourism Experience: A Review |
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Part II Pre-Experience Stage: Customer Inputs |
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4 Exploring Experience and Motivation Using Means-end Chain Theory |
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5 Experiential Decision Choice |
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Part III On-Site Experience |
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6 Attentive Tourists: The Importance of Co-creative Experiences |
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7 The Elicitation of Emotions |
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8 Measurement of Visitors' Emotion |
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9 Innovative Approaches to Researching Consumer Experience: An Evaluation and Comparison |
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10 Perceived Value of Destination Experiences in Zhouzhuang, China |
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Part IV Post-Experience Stage: Outcomes |
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11 Well-being Benefits from Mindful Experiences |
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12 Motivational Satisfaction and Emotional Outcomes from Experiences |
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13 The Meaning of a Destination Experience in Zhouzhuang, China |
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14 Sharing Tourism Experiences: Literature Review and Research Agenda |
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Part V Experience Design Cases |
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15 Slow Food Tourism: Preferences and Behaviours |
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16 Perceptions of the Trinidad Carnival Experience from International Travel Bloggers |
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Part VI Conclusion |
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17 Conclusion: Where To From Here? |
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Noel Scott (Edited By, Series Edited By) Noel Scott is Adjunct Professor of Tourism Management in the Sustainability Research Centre, University of the Sunshine Coast. His research interests include the study of wildlife tourism, tourism experiences, destination management and marketing, and stakeholder organization. He has over 300 academic articles published including 16 books. He is on the Editorial Board of 10 journals, a Fellow of the Council of Australian University Tourism and Hospitality Educators, and a member of the International Association of China Tourism Scholars.
Eric Laws (Series Edited By) Eric Laws has an MPhil from the University of Surrey and a PhD from Griffith University. He has retired from full time academic life, and is Visiting Professor at Leshan Normal University, Sichuan, P.R. China. His research interests include tourism service quality, destination management, crisis management and elephant tourism. Eric's publications include nearly 100 journal articles, book chapters and conference papers. The Elephant Tourism Business is Eric's twentieth authored or edited book.