Tourism and Humour

Erscheinungsjahr 2015
ISBN: 978-1-84541-508-2
Verlag: Channel View Publications

Buch, Englisch, Band 68, 167 Seiten, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 289 g

Reihe: Aspects of Tourism

This book is dedicated to the advancement of knowledge about humour in all kinds of tourism settings. It discusses the many ways in which humour can occur during tourism exchanges including guided tours, tourism marketing and promotion and travel narratives. Other themes include the role of humour in enhancing the tourist experience, the benefits of tourism humour, considerations of when humour may appear inappropriate in tourism settings and the development of tourism humour theory. The work includes much original material collected by the authors. The book will be of interest to undergraduate and postgraduate students, researchers of tourism as well as humour scholars from other disciplines.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Pearce, Philip L.

Pabel, Anja

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Psychologie Psychologie / Allgemeines & Theorie Psychologische Theorie, Psychoanalyse Behaviourismus
• Sozialwissenschaften Sport | Tourismus | Freizeit Humor
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Dienstleistungssektor & Branchen Tourismuswirtschaft, Gastgewerbe

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgements

Chapter One - Better to Laugh than Cry

Chapter Two - It will be a Laugh

Chapter Three - Joking our Way through the Day

Chapter Four - That’s a Funny Story

Chapter Five - Not Funny

Chapter Six - In it for a Laugh

References

Über Autor(innen)

Pabel, Anja
Anja Pabel is a Lecturer at CQUniversity Australia. Her research interests include tourist behaviour, humour research, marine tourism and tourism marketing.

Pearce, Philip L.
Philip L. Pearce is the Foundation Professor of Tourism and a Distinguished Professor at James Cook University, Australia. He has written and edited 18 tourism books and has around 300 publications. His long-standing interests are studies in tourist behaviour and experience. He is well known for his work on travel motivation, and approaches to tourists’ experience as well as special topics including humour stemming from positive psychology. He works with his PhD students and international colleagues using a variety of methods and approaches. Most studies are done in settings in Asia, Australia and Europe.

Philip L. Pearce is Foundation Professor of Tourism at James Cook University, Australia. His research focuses on tourist behaviour, notably tourist motivation and experience, tourism and communities and tourism education and research.

Anja Pabel has recently completed her PhD at James Cook University, Australia. Her main research interests are: tourist behaviour, humour research, marine tourism and the experience economy.