The promotion of local economic development processes in a metropolitan area often depends on its ability to attract sustainable tourism flows and to provide a high quality of life for citizens. Both are basic conditions to enhance the competitiveness of an urban context, but are possible only if territorial planning strategies are focused on the real "experience" lived by tourists and citizens while they get in touch (either virtually or physically) with that place. This is the reason why all the choices made by policy makers, urban planners, and territorial marketing managers should be aimed at promoting the best experience possible for people visiting and living the city. Thus, there is a need for theoretical models able to support practitioners in their effort for "experience design", which can find in the marketing literature – and in particular in the studies on tourism experience - many interesting conceptual basis. This research topic is growing very rapidly in the last years, but at the moment is still characterized by a high fragmentation and a lack of systematic theoretical models. Starting from these considerations, the purpose of the paper is to fill this gap by presenting a conceptual framework specifically developed in order to give a solid basis for the design, management and evaluation of the experiences lived by people when they plan, visit and remember a place.
Introduction
Cities are first of all places where people spend a significant amount of their time doing something useful, interesting or enjoyable. This is true for residents living there, but also for tourists who visit the city for a short while and aim at exploiting every single moment spent there in order to justify the money and the time invested int...
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...onsumers of cultural products, but is extended with some further constructs which have already been the object of a first empirical test. Furthermore, the model is built taking into account both to the role of tourist firms and territorial managers and of tourists and residents, as contributors to the experience environment of a place.
The model consists of three complementary and consequential elements:
• the experience process, which is the dynamic representation of the progressive development of the experience along the time;
• the experience drivers, which are the factors that, through a dynamic and interdependent interplay, contribute to give the experience a specific form and qualification, improving its intensity and memorability;
• The experience mix, composed by a system of levers that policy makers and managers can use to enact the experience drivers.
However, Gibbs (1988) model of reflection model was selected, as a framework, because it focuses on different aspects of an experience and allows the learner to revisit the event fully. By contemplating it thus, I am able to appreciate it and guided to where future development work is required.
...he exciting fact and our feeling of the same changes as they occur is the emotion.”
employees on the rides. These new initiatives would help us better understand customer needs and build long
Nakamura and Csíkszentmihályi (2001) identify the following six factors as encompassing an experience of flow.
Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly (1990). Flow – The Psychology of Optimal Experience, New York, NY: Harper and Row Publishing.
Many refinements of this concept have been put forth by various authors. One simple one that appears to improve greatly upon the original formulation is that knowing what it is like to have an experience is equivalent to the ability to recognize that experience by its phenomenal quality.
Robert Nozick offers the “experience machine” as a thought-experiment designed to tell us something about what makes a life worth living. Describe the thought-experiment.
What this experience has meant to me/done for me...why it was worth all the effort I put into it.
...s of the narrative, although the associated theory of knowledge of the phenomena that give priority and subjective experience, by identifying the right choice. In great detail to extract more than that, "People understand this phenomenon, the question of daily experience. The fact that the method described above share certain topics or and a search for patterns in data, and it seems that the topics do not find the data item in a personal interview.
This refers to the subjective experiences that people report as a consequence of engaging in the particular activity and can be seen as a coping strategy (i.e. they experience an arousing “buzz” or a “high” or paradoxically tranquilizing feel of “escape” or “numbing”).
Today’s global competition, demands a country to keep the true identity., culture becomes the basic aspects that must be maintained, because of the existence of culture effects how closely humans in general act, and be friendly. Cultural or often we refer to as the culture has its own uniqueness, while others interest by the culture then this could make the place tourism.
This essay is the respond to the Local Council Member who has wrong idea about a common archetype of adventure tourist. This misconception based on ignorance of current tourism industry, could potentially be a dangerous for local economy and development. The local authority must be well informed about present conditions with the tourism market, before they will make a far reaching decisions about the development direction in this industry. Currently, there are many organisations whose monitoring an international tourism business and this knowledge supposed to be good use for our common good.
Nowadays in the rea of globalization, according to the World Tourism Organization, “seven hundred million people travelled abroad in 2003”, and the number is estimated to increase to 1.6 billion by 2020. (International Labour Organization, 2005). Tourism is spreading in unusual places. A lot of people want to be in the midst of adventure. It is a vital source of revenues for the GDP of many countries. I partially agree that tourism hugely benefits the local community. This essay will discuss some of the economic, social and environment effect of tourism on the host community.
In recent years, tourism marketing has gone through strategic changes with the improvement in new technologies, the chase of a relationship between customers and suppliers as well as the importance of sustainability issues in marketing. Marketing Tourism reconsiders the needs of the tourists but does not overlook on the long term economic, environmental, social and cultural interests of the local population. So, it means that marketing consider both the tourist demand and effect to society as
Since we talked many ways and type of adult learning. In the sixth chapter,I recognized that experiences are so important to adult learning. Deway (1963)pointed out “not all experience are educative, some experiences may be the factor of leading a wrong way and I do really agree with this statement. Then, the next section described Kolb’s model of learning by experiences. Meanwhile, other adult educators developed three models from different perspectives. Jarvis(2006) considered the deep into a processing ; Tennan and Pogson(1995) tried experiential learning in an instructional angle ; Fenwick(2003) more prefer put philosophical lens of viewing the experiential learning. This is the most engaged part to learning. While the next section about “reflective practice ad situated cognition” was distanced of learning in this chapter. That is not means I repudiate these are two other ways to explore the relationship between experience and learning, it need to be