Poria, Yaniv and Butler, Richard and Airey, David (2003) Revising Mieczkowski's conceptualisation of tourism. Tourism Geographies, 5 (1). pp. 26-38. ISSN 1461-6688
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Mieczkowski's work (1981), has been used by scholars and educators in the field of tourism to describe the relationships between recreation, leisure and tourism to provide a theoretical framework for tourism. The aim of this paper is to illustrate that another element needs to be added, namely the tourists' perception of time as 'free' or 'non-free'. It is suggested that tourists' perception of the time-frame in which their experience takes place, whether the time is viewed as 'leisure' and 'free time' or 'non-free time', is of key importance in understanding tourism as a social phenomenon. It is also argued that improved understanding of the tourists' perception of this time-frame provides a new basis for segmenting tourists and identifying tourism subgroups. This, in turn, can contribute to the body of theory related to tourism and to the management of tourist-related organizations.
| Item type: | Article |
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| ID code: | 4057 |
| Keywords: | Mieczkowski, tourism, leisure, recreation, tourists, Commerce |
| Subjects: | Social Sciences > Commerce |
| Department: | Strathclyde Business School > Hospitality and Tourism Management |
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| Depositing user: | Strathprints Administrator |
| Date Deposited: | 18 Sep 2007 |
| Last modified: | 12 Mar 2012 10:40 |
| URI: | http://strathprints.strath.ac.uk/id/eprint/4057 |
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