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This paper aims to analyse the camping experience and its latest trend - glamping, and the particularities associated with this experience. The state-of-the-art reveals that research focusing on tourists’ experiences in camping and glamping units is reduced and therefore additional studies are welcome. Two empirical studies were carried out, one that followed the quantitative method, applied to campers who had their experience in three Portuguese campsites, and a qualitative one, which allowed the comparison between the two contexts of experience - having analysed the comments of campers and glampers on accommodation booking websites. The results of the quantitative and qualitative study revealed that the aesthetic and escapist dimensions of experience are the most relevant, related to the importance given to the location and surrounding area of the site.
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Lopes, D., Brandão, F., Breda, Z., Costa, R. (2021). The Four Dimensions of Tourist Experience: A Comparative Analysis Between Camping and Glamping. In: de Carvalho, J.V., Rocha, Á., Liberato, P., Peña, A. (eds) Advances in Tourism, Technology and Systems. ICOTTS 2020. Smart Innovation, Systems and Technologies, vol 208. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-33-4256-9_35
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