This book attempts to outline value creation in tourist experiences, theoretically and practically, in order to obtain new understandings and models to help identify how value creation is changing within the tourism industry and demonstrate ways in which both tourists and settings can proactively...

This chapter introduces the concepts of tourist experience, value co-creation in tourism experiences, and the phases of tourism experience creation, before outlining the overall structure of the book.

This chapter attempts to compose a conceptual framework that demonstrates the drivers influencing the creation of tourist experiences. In constructing this tourist experience model, three streams are offered. The first stream is to trace the past research of consumption experience in general and...

The aim of this chapter is to enhance our understanding of the tourist experience concept by unravelling the tourist experience value concept, and based on that, present an updated research agenda. The future research directions proposed are based on a quality-of-life approach, here scaled down to...

This chapter discusses theoretical and methodological issues in researching tourist motivation and presents examples of some empirical studies of tourism motivation. These studies test/critique single, dual or multiple motivational hypotheses. The chapter concludes with some unresolved issues of...

This chapter was designed to update the chapter on self-congruity research in travel and tourism (Sirgy, 2014). That chapter reviewed much of the research on self-congruity in travel and tourism and provided a refinement of the theoretical model originally proposed by Sirgy and Su (2000). The goal...

In this chapter, a tourist is referred to as a visitor travelling in an arena of interest-generating or interest-sustaining opportunities that can be scaffolded by experiences with, or through, others in that place. The chapter explores (1) what it takes to help people develop situational and...

This chapter first describes what is and what constitutes a memorable experience and addresses afterwards the issue of how to engage tourists to collaborate in the co-creation of such experiences. The chapter considers involvement in tourist experiences as a mediator and moderator variable in value ...

This chapter addresses a particular view of authenticity as a co-creator of value in cultural tourism experiences. The chapter outlines the findings from an empirical investigation of tourists consuming cultural and natural heritage sites in the island of Mauritius. By using the views and...

This chapter focuses on approaches to and challenges in the evaluation of visitor experiences at managed tourist attractions. The purpose is to uncover and to discuss critical aspects as demonstrated by this research, to identify some benefits and limitations in different approaches and to suggest...