Dynamic drivers of tourist experiences.

Abstract

This chapter attempts to compose a conceptual framework that demonstrates the drivers influencing the creation of tourist experiences. In constructing this tourist experience model, three streams are offered. The first stream is to trace the past research of consumption experience in general and the tourist experience specifically while reviewing the concepts of the tourist experience, the determinants of the experience and the strategic frameworks utilizing the tourist experience as a facilitator in marketing management. The second attempts to explicate the relationships between the drivers and the formation of tourist experiences from a temporal consideration (e.g. before the trip, during the trip and after the trip). The last consideration intends to illustrate underlying challenges in incorporating the proposed model into business practices so as to infer possible directions for future research.