Browsing by Author "Willson, Gregory Brian"
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Considerations for sustainable tourism development in developing countries: Perspectives from the South Pacific
(University of the Aegean, 2011)Nations of the South Pacific face a number of major challenges with respect to sustainable tourism development. Much of the literature presents overtly pessimistic conceptualisations of South Pacific nations as environmentally ... -
Exploring travel and spirituality: The role of travel in facilitating life purpose and meaning within the lives of individuals
(University of Waikato, 2010)This thesis is a phenomenological study of individuals who engaged in tours provided by Hands Up Holidays, a tour operator marketing their travel as ‘spiritual’. Hands Up Holidays views spirituality as being a broader ... -
International Tourists' Experiences of the Heritage Buildings in Hawke's Bay, New Zealand.
(The University of Waikato, 2006)There has been increased attention given in the tourism literature to experiential perspectives of tourism. This thesis addresses the lack of attention in previous experiential studies to the relationship between heritage ... -
Tourism and spirituality: A phenomenological analysis
(Elsevier Masson, 2013)Using phenomenological analysis, this paper examines the concept of 'spirituality' in the lived travel experience of an individual tourist. The paper contributes a phenomenological snippet of the tourist's 'portrait' (the ...
