Missing the Boat? A Playfully Serious Look at a Group Cruise Tour Experience
Missing the Boat? A Playfully Serious Look at a Group Cruise Tour Experience
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DOI：
10.1080/01490400490502345
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发表时间：
2004-10
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4
通讯作者：
C. Yarnal
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作者：
C. Yarnal
这份手稿融合了玩耍、重复行为和邮轮旅游。首先，我用戏剧镜头聚焦于旅游业中一个被忽视的部分--大众邮轮旅游。其次，我将概念上的重点从个人游客转移到探索为什么团队邮轮旅游的许多成员不断重复相同的体验。第三，有人批评说，大多数对旅游的概念化掩盖了大多数人在旅游过程中实际发生的事情，以及关于游戏的经验数据有限，为了回应这种批评，我对一年一度的团体邮轮旅游进行了一项参与者观察研究。我用辩证的方法来捕捉邮轮旅游行为的复杂性。
This manuscript fuses play, repeat behavior, and cruise tourism. First, I used a play lens to focus on an overlooked segment of the travel industry—mass cruise tourism. Second, I shifted the conceptual emphasis from the individual tourist to an exploration of why many members of a group cruise tour keep repeating the same experience. Third, in addressing the criticisms that most conceptualizations of tourism gloss over much of what is really going on for most people during the tourism process and empirical data on play are limited, I undertook a participant observation study of an annual group cruise tour. I used a dialectical approach to capture the complexities of cruise tourism behavior.