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Definitions of the concept `tourist' abound in the literature. `Travelling for pleasure' is the most commonly evoked dimension of the phenomenon; for additional dimensions necessary for a systematic definition of the tourist as a traveller role, see Cohen, 1974.
May 1, 1979 · This idea that tourism must be motivated by a search for authenticity was disputed by Cohen (1979) who identified several motivations for travel. This heralded the constructivist perspective...
Jan 27, 2023 · Cohen’s theory is well known as being the first to attempt to categorise types of tourists. Cohen derived this theory on the types of tourists based on his knowledge of sociology and anthropology and applied it to the context of tourism, he is not necessary a tourism specialist.
Published 1 May 1979. Philosophy, Sociology. Sociology. Contemporary studies of tourism see the tourist experience as either something essentially spurious and superficial, an extension of an alienated world, or as a serious search for authenticity, an effort to escape from an alienated world.
Jan 1, 1979 · Only systematic research on the 24 ANNALS OF TOURISM RESEARCH, Jan/Mar 1979 ERIC COHEN differential dynamics of various tourist systems will show whether it is an adequate one. The sociological study of the dynamics of the tourist-host encounter has also proceeded on general, unilinear lines.
Jan 1, 2005 · This paper identifies four noteworthy conceptual developments in the study of the tourist experience: a turn from differentiation to de-differentiation of everyday life and touristic experiences; a shift from generalizing to pluralizing conceptualizations; a transformed focus from the toured objects to the tourist subjective negotiation of meani...
Back in 1979, Erik Cohen introduced his `modes of tourist experience'. Cohen's approach was promising for better understanding `experiences' in a phenomenological way, but very little happened afterwards with his `modes' either in a theoretical or empirical way.
