Tourist Behaviour and the Contemporary World

This volume seeks to review and stimulate interest in a number of emerging and fresh topics in contemporary tourist behaviour and experience. Topics explored include the effects of newer technologies on tourists? behaviour and experience, tourists? experience of scams, safety and personal responsibility, individual perspectives on sustainability, and some dimensions of tourists? personal growth, relationships and altruism.

Philip Pearce is Foundation Professor of Tourism at James Cook University. He earned a Doctorate from the University of Oxford and has held a Fulbright scholarship at Harvard University. He has chaired and developed one of the leading tourism departments in Australia at James Cook University. He has won multiple awards for teaching including an Australian Learning and Teaching Council award for tourism education. He has written over 150 publications and 9 books on tourism. He is a foundation member of the International Academy for the Study of Tourism and was the Chief Editor of Australia¿s premier tourism journal, The Journal of Tourism Studies, from 1990- 2005.