Erikson on the tour

• Autores: Darya Maoz
• Localización: Tourism recreation research, ISSN 0250-8281, Vol. 31, Nº 3, 2006, pág. 55
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • The study investigates the relationship between personal crisis and sense of alienation, andnd tourist experience patterns in men and women at different points of the adult life course. Analysis showed that the roles tourists engage in are a function of a dialectical relation between a wish to escape and a wish to releKate. life stage and gender were found to have an influence on berth factors and in shaping the tourism style. The article supports Coheres conclusion (1979) of a causal link between the degree of the tourists' alienation from their society and the depth of their touristic experience, but it finds that other factors interfere with this link and affect it.