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Unravelling Travelling

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THE TOURIST EXPERIENCE

Series editor: Richard Sharpley

The Tourist Experience series addresses a notable gap in the literature on Tourism Studies by foregrounding the tourist experience in a cohesive and thematically structured manner.

Taking a novel approach by presenting both short-form publications and long-form monographs exploring issues in the tourist experience, the series will seek to build a comprehensive set of texts that collectively contribute to critical discourse and understanding of the contemporary tourist experience. Short-form publications will review specific types of tourist by focusing primarily on the influences and nature and significance of their experiences within a sociocultural framework while longer titles will embrace contemporary empirical and conceptual perspectives and debates as a means of understanding experiences.

Recent volumes:

• The Adventure Tourist: Being, Knowing, Becoming

  Dr Jelena Farkić and Dr Maria Gebbels

Forthcoming Volumes:

• The Responsible Tourist: Conceptualizations, Expectations and Dilemmas

  Dirk Reiser and Volker Rundshagen

• The Sport Tourist

  Sean James Gammon

• The Mindful Tourist: The Power of Presence in Tourism

  Uglješa Stankov, Ulrike Gretzel and Viachaslau Filimonau

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Unravelling Travelling: Uncovering Tourist Emotions through Autoethnography

BY

SUE BEETON

Independent Researcher, Australia

United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China

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First edition 2022

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Contents

List of Tables

List of Figures

About the Author

Prof Beeton is a Travel and Tourism Researcher and Writer who became involved in tourism in the late 1980s through guiding horseback tours in the mountains, many of which were themed around the movie, The Man from Snowy River environments, and wrote her first book on adventure horse riding. Here she witnessed the growth of tourism and its effects on small, local communities as well as fragile alpine environments. For over a quarter of a century, she has conducted tourism-based research into community development and public land management, along with film-induced tourism and pop culture’s relationship with travel and tourism. As well as producing numerous academic papers, book chapters and reports, she has published a range of research-based books on those topics, along with developing her interest in autoethnographic research.

She is a Visiting Professor at the University of Hokkaido, and in 2019, she was awarded the TTRA Lifetime Achievement Award for her contribution to tourism research and scholarship.

Acknowledgements

I wish to acknowledge the traditional custodians of the land on which I live and have written this book, The Wathaurong and Yorta Yorta peoples of the Kulin Nation. Cover artwork is a representation of Jizō, a Japanese deity who is the guardian of ‘lost’ children and travellers. They are often found in temples and along sacred walking trails wearing red bibs and hoods, where travellers and parents leave small gifts of coin, food and toys.