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Under the title ‘Consumer tribes in tourism: Contemporary perspectives on special interest tourism’ this book adopts a collective approach to special interest tourism consumption. It brings together research on ‘special interest tourism’, framed primarily as a demand concept, which is experiential in nature and driven by a special interest, and ‘niche tourism’, offering a supply perspective, with more recent research into the interdisciplinary applications of the sociological concept of ‘neo-tribes’.
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Pforr, C., Volgger, M., Dowling, R. (2021). Consumer Tribes: A Tourism Perspective on Shared Experiences, Emotions, and the Passion for a Specific Interest. In: Pforr, C., Dowling, R., Volgger, M. (eds) Consumer Tribes in Tourism. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-7150-3_1
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