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Consumer Tribes in Tourism: Contemporary Perspectives on Special-Interest Tourism

Consumer Tribes in Tourism: Contemporary Perspectives on Special-Interest Tourism

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Business GeneralInvesting & FinanceGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 981157149X
ISBN13: 9789811571497
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Nov 19 2020
Pages: 268
Weight: 1.27
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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