Sensory Tourism

Senses and SenseScapes Encompassing Tourism Destinations

Ian Jenkins, Robert S. Bristow

• Publisher: CAB International
• Year: 2024
• Edition: 0
• eBook ISBN:
  9781800623606
• Topic: Business
• Subtopic: Hospitality, Travel & Tourism Industry
• Index: Business

Tourism offers countless global locations, providing a multitude of sensory experiences. These include commercialised tourism products such as saunas and floatation tanks through to natural phenomenon such as mountains and wilderness destinations. Consequently, sensory elements are a curious concept within tourism because every destination provides a sensory experience of one kind or another.The first of its kind, this book examines holidays and tourism through sensory perceptions which either encourage or deter consumers. It studies sensoryscapes and how they effect and affect tourism at destinations and be linked with the development of tourist niches, reflecting the segmenting of the mass market tourism into smaller segments. Finally, it reflects on how with increased urbanisation there a growing need is to find quiet spaces, free from urban or anthropogenic noise, such as silent retreats and dark sky meditation holidays. Escape has always been one of the main components of tourism development together with attraction to spatial locations that match tourists' needs.Structed to address each of the senses separately, this book provides a: · wide range of case studies from interdisciplinary backgrounds· links amongst common themes across the various threads of research on sensory experiences· theoretical framework and practical application for sensory tourism.It will be of interest to those studying tourism management as well as wider social science disciplines.

Table of contents

• Cover Page
• Half Title Page
• Dedication
• Title page
• Contents
• Contributors
• Preface
• Foreword
• Introduction: Foundational Aspect of Sense in TourismIan S. Jenkins and and Robert S. Bristow
•  Part 1: Sound in TourismIan Jenkins
• 1 The Music Festival Soundscape as a Tourist Allure: The Case of TomorrowlandAristeidis Gkoumas*
• 2 Sound and Sound Interactions in Outdoor Recreation and Tourism PlacesPatricia A. Stokowski*
• 3 Urban Soundscapes for Tourists, with a Focus on SkyscrapersKathryn Terzano*
• 4 Soundscapes and Sonic Emissions in National ParksIan S. Jenkins*
• Part 2: The Visual in TourismIan Jenkins
• 5 The Sensescapes of Drones in TourismJaciel Gustavo Kunz*
• 6 ‘Looking Up’: Exploring Night Skies and Astro-Tourist Sensory ExperiencesDeborah Slater and Philip R. Stone
• 7 Sensing Lightscapes: Playing with Light and Darkness in the ArcticKatrín Anna Lund and Gunnar Thór Jóhannesson
• Part 3: Taste in SensescapesRobert S. Bristow
• 8 ‘More than a Meal’: Sensescapes in Narratives of a Destination Restaurant Tasting ExperienceVelvet Nelson*
• 9 Edible Heritage: The Use of Food and Foodways in Multisensory Museum EncountersSofie Scheen Jahnsen*
• 10 Gastronomic Pleasure in an Atlantic Spanish Tourist Destination: The Region of GaliciaRubén Camilo Lois González, Breixo Martins Rodal and Carlos Alberto Patiño Romarís
• 11 Gustatory Experiences and their Interaction with Other Senses: Savouring the Destination and its Relevance in Food TourismPriyakrushna Mohanty, Bidisha Sarkar, M Sharanya and MC Chandru
• Part 4: The Sense of Smell in Tourism: Olfactory TourismIan Jenkins
• 12 Smellscapes of ProvenceClaudette John*
• Part 5: Touch SensescapesRobert S. Bristow
• 13 Animal Touch: Cuteness, Tactility and Wellbeing in JapanÉmilie Crossley*
• 14 Multisensory Experience in the Context of the Melaka World Heritage Site, MalaysiaNur Hidayah Abd Rahman, Nur Haizum Abd Rahman and Hairul Nizam Ismail
• 15 Exploring the Transformative Role of Touch in the Touristic Experience: The Case of Japanese Thermal Philosophy in Ourense’s Thermal FacilitiesElisa Alén González, Trinidad Domínguez Vila and Lucia Rubio- Escuderos
• Part 6: Multi–Extra-Sensory TourismRobert S. Bristow
• 16 Bioception Interoceptive Sense: The Missing Link Between Biophilia, Tourism and WellbeingSara Duarte, Tim Taylor and Carlos Ferreira
• 17 Sensory Tourism: Preliminary Contributions from the NeurosciencesCarla Fraga*
• 18 Echoes of Tranquillity: The Silent Appeal of New Zealand’s National Parks in Tourism ResearchPola Q. Wang*
• 19 The Sixth of the Senses and Sensory Tourism: Proprioception and Tourists’ Search for the Authentic SelfMargaret E Kenna*
• 20 Using Astro-cartography as a Tool for Determining Travel ChoiceKaren Davies*
• 21 Dark Tourism in New OrleansHilary Becker*
• ConclusionIan S. Jenkins and Robert S. Bristow