Scott A. Cohen

TL;DR: In this paper, a review of consumer behaviour in tourism is presented, focusing on the key concepts, external influences and opportune research contexts in contemporary tourism consumer behaviour research, including decision making, values, motivations, self-concept and personality, expectations, attitudes, perceptions satisfaction, trust and loyalty.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors examine the broad social trends and specific historical events that recently affected tourism and discuss how the focus of sociological inquiry in tourism studies shifted from earlier discourses of authenticity and the tourist gaze to three novel theoretical approaches, the mobilities paradigm, the performativity approach and actor-network theory (ANT), which reflect a broader meta-theoretical re-orientation in contemporary philosophy and sociology.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors conceptualize two analytically distinct, but practically often intersecting, modes of authentication of tourist attractions, "cool" and "hot" authentication, and explore the crucial question of who is authorized to authenticate tourist attractions and uncover issues of power and contestation in the politics of authentication.

TL;DR: In this article, a lens of "lifestyle mobilities" that challenges discrete notions of and allows for a wider grasp of the increasing fluidity between travel, leisure and migration is proposed.

TL;DR: The authors empirically explored the proposition using lifestyle consumption as its framing concept and conceptualised individuals who style their lives around the enduring practice of backpacking as ‘lifestyle travellers' using ethnographic interviews with lifestyle travellers in India and Thailand.