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Consumer tribes in tourism : contemporary perspectives on special-interest tourism / Christof Pforr, Ross Dowling, Michael Volgger, editors

Contributor(s): Resource type: Ressourcentyp: Buch (Online)Book (Online)Language: English Series: Springer eBook CollectionPublisher: Singapore : Springer Singapore, [2021]Publisher: Singapore : Imprint: Springer, [2021]Description: 1 Online-Ressource (XIV, 268 p. 55 illus., 40 illus. in color.)ISBN:
  • 9789811571503
Subject(s): Additional physical formats: 9789811571497 | 9789811571510 | 9789811571527 | Erscheint auch als: 9789811571497 Druck-Ausgabe | Erscheint auch als: 9789811571510 Druck-Ausgabe | Erscheint auch als: 9789811571527 Druck-Ausgabe | Erscheint auch als: Consumer tribes in tourism. Druck-Ausgabe. Singapore : Springer, 2021. xiv, 268 SeitenDOI: DOI: 10.1007/978-981-15-7150-3Online resources: Summary: Introduction -- Special Interest Tourism: The evolution of a concept -- Surf Tourism Tribe -- Dark Tourism -- Cycling Tourism -- Destination/Brand Loyalists -- Luxury Travel -- Diaspora Tourism/Nostalgia Tourism Tribes -- Couchsurfer and Airbnb User Tribes -- Astronomy Tourism Tribes -- Lifestyle Hotels: Hospitality Catering to Tribes -- Foodie Tribes -- Camper/Free Camper/Freedom Campers Tribes -- Traveler tribe (vs tourist tribe) -- Geotourism Tribes -- Volcano Tourism Tribes -- Backpacker Tourism Tribes -- Volunteerism – The Olympics Tribe -- Health Tourism -- Tribes of Grey Nomads -- Embodied Boarders: Snowboarding Tribes -- Accessible Tourism Tribes -- Avitourism Tribes -- Conclusion.Summary: This book adopts a collectivist perspective on special interest tourism consumption, bringing together research on ‘special interest tourism’ and ‘niche tourism’ as well as more recent research into the interdisciplinary applications of the sociological concept of neo‐tribes. It promotes a shift in perspective away from special interest tourism understood as a sum of similarly motivated individuals, to a collective view of special interest tourists who share common characteristics (e.g., shared values, beliefs and mutual interests) and group structures. This approach provides a better understanding of groupings that are not unified by a common tourism motivation, but brought together by otherwise conditioned commonalities in actual behavior triggered by supply-side contexts (e.g., Airbnb). The book considers tourism micro‐segments as consumer tribes (i.e., as symbolic communities) in which individuals are embedded and loosely bound together. As there is limited research on the collectivist perspective on special interest tourism consumption, in the first part the book’s conceptual/theoretical discourse contributes to a better understanding of ‘groupings’ in tourism behavior but also collectives that are not unified by a common tourism motivation. Presenting international examples, the book explores in Part 2 the group culture of a range of tourist tribes by describing emerging tourism micro-segments, identifying shared identities, and analyzing their collective mechanisms.PPN: PPN: 174157871XPackage identifier: Produktsigel: ZDB-2-BUM | ZDB-2-SEB | ZDB-2-SXBM
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