Prelims
The Youth Tourist: Motives, Experiences and Travel Behaviour
ISBN: 978-1-80455-148-6, eISBN: 978-1-80455-147-9
Publication date: 23 March 2023
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Irimiás, A. (2023), "Prelims", The Youth Tourist: Motives, Experiences and Travel Behaviour (The Tourist Experience), Emerald Publishing Limited, Leeds, pp. i-xi. https://doi.org/10.1108/978-1-80455-147-920231007
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Copyright © 2023 Anna Irimiás
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The Youth Tourist
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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 longer 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 socio-cultural framework while longer titles will embrace contemporary empirical and conceptual perspectives and debates as a means of understanding experiences.
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The Adventure Tourist: Being, Knowing, Becoming
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The Backpacker Tourist: A Contemporary Perspective
Márcio Ribeiro Martins and Rui Augusto da Costa
The Mindful Tourist: The Power of Presence in Tourism
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Forthcoming Volumes:
The Responsible Tourist: Conceptualizations, Expectations and Dilemmas
Dirk Reiser and Volker Rundshagen
The Sport Tourist
Sean James Gammon
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The Youth Tourist: Motives, Experiences and Travel Behaviour
BY
ANNA IRIMIÁS
Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary
United Kingdom – North America – Japan – India – Malaysia – China
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Dedication
To my husband, Alessio, with endless gratitude and love
Contents
| About the Author | ix |
| Acknowledgements | xi |
| Introduction | 1 |
| Chapter 1: The Youth Tourism Domain | 5 |
| 1.1 Size and Growth of the Global Youth Population | 5 |
| 1.2 Youth Populations in Tourism Source Countries | 8 |
| 1.3 ‘Youth’: A Concept That Needs Definition | 8 |
| 1.4 Generational Labels for the Young | 12 |
| 1.5 Normative Discourse on ‘Youth Tourists’ in Tourism Studies | 14 |
| 1.6 Millennials | 16 |
| 1.7 Youth and the Pandemic – Pandemials | 19 |
| 1.8 Generation Alpha – Children and Preschoolers | 20 |
| 1.9 Youth-oriented Policies Within the EU | 21 |
| 1.10 Interrail – The Sustainable Way to Travel | 21 |
| 1.11 Youth-oriented Services: Hostels | 22 |
| 1.12 Conclusion | 24 |
| Chapter 2: The Young Tourist and Personal Development | 25 |
| 2.1 Identity Formation and Tourism | 25 |
| 2.2 Learning and Personal Development | 26 |
| 2.3 Interactions With Culturally Different Individuals: Intercultural Sensitivity | 29 |
| 2.4 Interactions With Culturally Similar Individuals: African-Background Students’ Trips ‘Home’ | 32 |
| 2.5 Interactions With Older People: Religious Tourism and Pilgrimage | 33 |
| 2.6 Work-Travel Experiences | 36 |
| 2.7 Volunteer Tourism | 38 |
| 2.8 Volunteering at Sporting Events | 40 |
| 2.9 Travelling to Learn (Gap Years and Backpackers) | 40 |
| 2.10 Backpackers | 42 |
| 2.11 Conclusions | 43 |
| Chapter 3: The Young Tourist and Hedonistic Experiences | 45 |
| 3.1 Young Tourists on Family Holidays | 45 |
| 3.2 Hedonistic Holiday Experiences (4-S and Winter Tourism) | 48 |
| 3.3 Young Tourists, Sex, Intimacy | 50 |
| 3.4 Festivals and Spaces of Heterotopia | 53 |
| 3.5 Fandom-Tourists: Film Tourists, Anime, Cosplay | 57 |
| 3.6 Anime, Manga and Cosplay | 59 |
| 3.7 Conclusions | 61 |
| Chapter 4: The Young Tourist and Social Media | 63 |
| 4.1 Gen Me: Are Today's Youth Narcissistic? | 63 |
| 4.2 Togetherness and Performing Roles | 66 |
| 4.3 Wanderlust | 67 |
| 4.4 Young Tourists: The New Nomads | 69 |
| 4.5 Vanlife | 70 |
| 4.6 A Trusted Travel Companion: The Smartphone | 71 |
| 4.7 Smartphones as Travel Companions | 73 |
| 4.8 Nudging | 74 |
| 4.9 Instagram and Influencers | 75 |
| 4.10 Influencer Marketing | 76 |
| 4.11 FOMO, JOMO and the Metaverse | 77 |
| 4.12 Metaverse | 79 |
| 4.13 Conclusion | 81 |
| Conclusion and Future Research Paths | 83 |
| References | 89 |
| Index | 101 |
About the Author
Anna Irimiás is Associate Professor of Tourism Management at the Corvinus University of Budapest, Hungary. Her research interests include consumer behaviour, tourism destination management, cultural tourism and film tourism.
Acknowledgements
This volume has come to fruition, thanks to the encouragement of many friends and colleagues. I would like to acknowledge the support of the Series Editor Richard Sharpley (University of Central Lancashire, Preston, UK) and to Sheena Reghunath (Emerald Editorial team). Writing of this book took place between June and November 2022 in Budapest for which I acknowledge the support of the Corvinus University of Budapest (Hungary). I am indebted to Gábor Michalkó and Ariel Mitev (Corvinus University of Budapest) for their critical insights and for our discussions around the kitchen table. The photos and insights from young tourists, Nicole Betta, Zsófia Fekete, Fiamma Gomes, Eszter Klapka, Edoardo Marangon and Zsófia Szabó, are particularly valuable to this volume. Thanks for sharing them. I am also grateful to Maria Della Lucia (University of Trento, Italy) who insisted that I should ‘write that book’.
Finally, the support of my husband Alessio, my daughter Caterina, my parents Judit and György and my mother-in-law Sandra has been essential to the completion of this book.
Anna Irimiás
Budapest, Hungary