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Reconceptualizing T...
Reconceptualizing Tourists’ Extraordinary Experiences
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- Goolaup, Sandhiya, 1985- (author)
- Högskolan i Borås,Akademin för textil, teknik och ekonomi,University of Borås, Sweden
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- Nunkoo, Robin (author)
- Department of Management, University of Mauritius, Reduit, Mauritius;School of Tourism and Hospitality, University of Johannesburg, Johannesburg, South Africa;Griffith Institute for Tourism, Griffith University, Gold Coast, QLD, Australia;Copenhagen Business School, Frederiksberg, Denmark
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- 2021-12-29
- 2023
- English.
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In: Journal of Travel Research. - : SAGE Publications. - 0047-2875 .- 1552-6763. ; 62:2, s. 399-411
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- Research that conceptualizes tourist extraordinary experiences both from the structural and anti-structural perspective is limited in the tourism literature. The purpose of this research is to develop a new theoretical perspective that re-conceptualizes our understanding of tourists’ extraordinary experience by taking into consideration both the structural and anti-structural elements of an experience. It draws on phenomenological interviews with 26 food tourists. The study finds that extraordinary experience consists of elements such as profaneness, collaborative interactions and conflict-easing, which represent both the structural and anti-structural elements. The findings of this study allow us to question whether extraordinary experience is purely structural or anti-structural as suggested by previous research. Rather, based on the findings, we argue that extraordinary experience is the positive co-existence of both the ordinary and the non-ordinary. As a result, we use the term “synstructure” to conceptualize the tourist extraordinary experience.
Subject headings
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business (hsv//eng)
- SAMHÄLLSVETENSKAP -- Ekonomi och näringsliv -- Företagsekonomi (hsv//swe)
- SOCIAL SCIENCES -- Economics and Business -- Business Administration (hsv//eng)
Keyword
- extraordinary experience
- structure
- anti-structure
- tourist experience
- phenomenology
- Business and IT
- Handel och IT
- Marketing
- Företagsekonomi
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- ref (subject category)
- art (subject category)
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