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  title info:
    title: Understanding tourism encounters
    sub title: a phenomenology of the international travel experience
  name:
    name part: Richardson, Sarah Lucille.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: xx
    date issued: 1996
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 187 leaves : illustrations ; 28 cm.
  abstract: The purpose of this study was to gain richer insight into
  abstract: intercultural contact that is associated with the
  abstract: international travel experience. The study was conducted, in
  abstract: part, to address a gap between rhetoric that suggests that
  abstract: tourism is an effective vehicle for improving cultural
  abstract: understanding, and research findings that offer inconclusive
  abstract: results. Three general questions were addressed in this
  abstract: inquiry: (1) What meanings do tourists attach to
  abstract: intercultural contact within the context of their overall
  abstract: trip? (2) What factors shape and influence tourism-generated
  abstract: intercultural contact? (3) To what extent, and in what ways
  abstract: does this intercultural contact alter tourists' perceptions
  abstract: of the host environment and its people? To address these
  abstract: questions, the study adopted a naturalistic inquiry approach.
  abstract: This approach was selected as appropriate for the study
  abstract: because it yielded an emergent, emic understanding of the
  abstract: tourism experience. This understanding facilitated the
  abstract: formation of an inductively based, empirically grounded
  abstract: conceptualization, or phenomenology", of the international
  abstract: tourism experience and its intercultural dimensions. This
  abstract: phenomenology represents constructions of the tourism
  abstract: experience that were shared across a variety of tourists, and
  abstract: thus represented salient themes that help to organize the
  abstract: international tourism experience and outcomes. International
  abstract: tourists (informants) who had recently returned from a
  abstract: country they had not previously visited were interviewed
  abstract: using an unstructured approach. Constructions provided
  abstract: during these interviews were analyzed to determine those that
  abstract: were shared amongst respondents, those that were uniquely
  abstract: held, and the contextual conditions that surrounded them.
  abstract: The shared themes, meanings and patterns that shaped the
  abstract: informants" travels suggested that a dominant "story line" of
  abstract: the international travel experience is that of self-
  abstract: discovery--discovery of the individual, cultural, and global
  abstract: "self". It was further suggested that the experience of
  abstract: international tourism is shaped by two distinct themes: (1)
  abstract: negotiation within the host culture and (2) tension
  abstract: associated with the tourism role. Associated with these
  abstract: themes were three types of intercultural experiences:
  abstract: signature, portal, and reflective experiences. Because no
  abstract: empirically grounded phenomenology of the international
  abstract: tourism experience has been reported in the literature, this
  abstract: study provides an important foundation for an ongoing agenda
  abstract: of tourism research.
  note: by Sarah Lucille Richardson.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major Subject: Recreation and Resources Development".
  note: Issued also on microfiche from University Microfilms Inc.
  note: Includes bibliographical references: pages 166-175.
  note: Ph. D. Texas A&M University 1996.
  subject:
    topic: Major recreation and resources development
  identifier: 97-18445 UMI
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    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 970812
    record change date: 20190325093327.0
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