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Introduction: Wildlife Tourism Management and Phenomena: A Web of Complex Conceptual, Theoretical and Practical Issues Read chapter Read first chapter

2017 | OriginalPaper | Chapter

11. Whale and Dolphin Watching, and Visitors’ Experiential Responses: A Qualitative Study on Comments in a Travel Forum

Authors : Serhat Harman, S. Emre Dilek

Published in: Wildlife Tourism, Environmental Learning and Ethical Encounters

Publisher: Springer International Publishing

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Abstract

This chapter will consider the history of whale and dolphin watching as a tourism activity, based on visitors’ experiences. The analysis was based on 468 visitors’ comments on a familiar travel forum under the four categories developed in Ballantyne, Packer and Sutherland’s research in (Tourism Management 32(4):770–779, 2011b). These categories are sensory impressions, emotional affinity, reflective response, and behavioural response. The comments were analysed using a content analysis method. It was found that the behavioural response dimension reported by visitors was lower than the other experience dimensions. The study concluded with some suggestions for both business owners and wildlife tourism researchers.

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“Cetacean” comes from the Latin “cetus” (whale) and Greek “ketos” (huge-fish) and, particularly in the literature, refers to whales and dolphins (O’Neill et al. 2004; Filby et al. 2015; Higham et al. 2016).
 
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Metadata
Title
Whale and Dolphin Watching, and Visitors’ Experiential Responses: A Qualitative Study on Comments in a Travel Forum
Authors
Serhat Harman
S. Emre Dilek
Copyright Year
2017
Book
Wildlife Tourism, Environmental Learning and Ethical Encounters

Print ISBN: 978-3-319-55573-7

Electronic ISBN: 978-3-319-55574-4

Copyright Year: 2017

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-55574-4_11