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Children's and families' holiday experience / Neil Carr.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carr, Neil, 1972- author.
- Series:
- Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility ; 22.
- Contemporary geographies of leisure, tourism, and mobility ; 22
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Tourism.
- Children--Travel.
- Children.
- Child psychology.
- Family recreation.
- Holidays.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (217 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Abingdon, Oxon [England] ; New York : Routledge, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Children's and Families' Holiday Experiences is based on the recognition of the active social role of children in shaping the nature of their holiday experiences and those of their parents and other adults. The volume provides significant insights into the holiday desires, expectations, and experiences of children and their families that offer the potential for the tourism industry to plan, develop, and market products that provide a higher quality of service to these populations. This book traces the modern history of the demand for and provision of holidays for children an
- Contents:
- Cover; Children's and Families'Holiday Experiences; Copyright; Contents; Figures and tables; Acknowledgements; 1. Introduction: children's and families' holiday experiences; 2. Socio-industrial constructions of families' and children's holiday experiences; 3. Children's and parents' holiday desires and motivations; 4. Children's health, safety and risk-taking in the holiday environment; 5. Children learning through tourism experiences; 6. Catering to children in the holiday experience; 7. No parents! The child-only tourism experience; 8. No children! The adult-only tourism experience
- 9. Conclusion: looking and researching beyond the myths of childhood and the happy familyReferences; Index
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-136-83755-8
- 1-283-12699-0
- 9786613126993
- 1-136-83756-6
- 0-203-83261-2
- 9780203832615
- OCLC:
- 729166491
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