Primer to Tourists' Perceptions and Assessments Including How-to-build Formal, Implementable, Models of the Tourist Gaze

This primer defines and describes conscious and nonconscious perception and assessment processes by tourists. The primer links the field of tourism perception studies to the literature of experimental social psychology. The primer describes the important roles that metaphors play in connecting consc...

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Main Authors: Woodside, Arch, Kozak, M.
Other Authors: Woodside, A.
Format: Book Chapter
Published: Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27855
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description This primer defines and describes conscious and nonconscious perception and assessment processes by tourists. The primer links the field of tourism perception studies to the literature of experimental social psychology. The primer describes the important roles that metaphors play in connecting conscious and nonconscious thinking and how both tourism brand managers and tourists use metaphors to use stories to enable enactments and favorable outcomes of archetypal motivations. The primer introduces formal implementable models of the major tenet in Urry’s tourist gaze – visitors’ home culture automatically and mostly nonconsciously profoundly influences their perceptions, assessments, and interpretations of what they see when traveling and visiting away destinations. Model implementation includes applying Boolean algebra-based asymmetric tests instead of symmetric matrix algebra-based statistical tests – the asymmetric tests examine for the consistency of high scores in perceiving, assessing, and behaviors of complex configurations of antecedent conditions. A detailed empirical example of asymmetric testing includes consistent high scores for Americans, Brits, Canadians, and Germans for not shopping for gifts to take home during their visits to Australia. This primer also introduces the concept of the tourist meta-gaze – seeing and assessing outside the automatically activated culturally based tourist gaze.
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spelling curtin-20.500.11937-278552023-02-27T07:34:30Z Primer to Tourists' Perceptions and Assessments Including How-to-build Formal, Implementable, Models of the Tourist Gaze Woodside, Arch Kozak, M. Woodside, A. Kozak, M. This primer defines and describes conscious and nonconscious perception and assessment processes by tourists. The primer links the field of tourism perception studies to the literature of experimental social psychology. The primer describes the important roles that metaphors play in connecting conscious and nonconscious thinking and how both tourism brand managers and tourists use metaphors to use stories to enable enactments and favorable outcomes of archetypal motivations. The primer introduces formal implementable models of the major tenet in Urry’s tourist gaze – visitors’ home culture automatically and mostly nonconsciously profoundly influences their perceptions, assessments, and interpretations of what they see when traveling and visiting away destinations. Model implementation includes applying Boolean algebra-based asymmetric tests instead of symmetric matrix algebra-based statistical tests – the asymmetric tests examine for the consistency of high scores in perceiving, assessing, and behaviors of complex configurations of antecedent conditions. A detailed empirical example of asymmetric testing includes consistent high scores for Americans, Brits, Canadians, and Germans for not shopping for gifts to take home during their visits to Australia. This primer also introduces the concept of the tourist meta-gaze – seeing and assessing outside the automatically activated culturally based tourist gaze. 2014 Book Chapter http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27855 10.1108/S1871-317320140000008001 Emerald Group Publishing Limited restricted
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Primer to Tourists' Perceptions and Assessments Including How-to-build Formal, Implementable, Models of the Tourist Gaze
title Primer to Tourists' Perceptions and Assessments Including How-to-build Formal, Implementable, Models of the Tourist Gaze
title_full Primer to Tourists' Perceptions and Assessments Including How-to-build Formal, Implementable, Models of the Tourist Gaze
title_fullStr Primer to Tourists' Perceptions and Assessments Including How-to-build Formal, Implementable, Models of the Tourist Gaze
title_full_unstemmed Primer to Tourists' Perceptions and Assessments Including How-to-build Formal, Implementable, Models of the Tourist Gaze
title_short Primer to Tourists' Perceptions and Assessments Including How-to-build Formal, Implementable, Models of the Tourist Gaze
title_sort primer to tourists' perceptions and assessments including how-to-build formal, implementable, models of the tourist gaze
url http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/27855