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.
About the author
Professor Katrín Anna Lund is an anthropologist who has worked at the Department of Tourism and Geography, University of Iceland, for the past 10 years. Previously she has researched and lectured at Victoria University, Wellington, New Zealand, University of Aberdeen and Queens University, Belfast. She has done research in Spain, Scotland and Iceland. Her research has focused on tourism, travel and the perception of landscape but landscape studies have been central in her work on travel and tourism with a special emphasis on walking and narratives. Recently she has been studying destination making in tourism with a special focus on Arctic peripheries as well as Northern Light tourism. Katrín is the co-editor, with Professor Karl Benediktsson, of Conversations with Landscape that was published by Ashgate 2010 and Green Ice: Tourism Ecologies in the European High North, with Dr. Simone Abram, published by Palgrave Pivot. She has also published journal articles in a variety of journals, as well as book chapters.
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