Digital Detox Tourism: Why disconnect? : What are the motives of Dutch tourists to undertake a digital detox holiday?
Digital detox technologies such as smartphones, tablets, and PDAs, have grown and developed at an extraordinary rate to become an essential part of everyday life. While ICT is a driving force in the contemporary tourism industry, some travel agencies and hotels have recently detected a niche market for those people who want to ‘escape’ from the digital life by offering ‘digital detox travel packages’, i.e. travel to remote areas that are highly disconnected of ICTs. While the current literature has investigated the tourists’ experience of a forced disconnection, it has yet not suffic... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Student thesis |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2017 |
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Umeå universitet
Kulturgeografi |
Schlagwörter: | Digital detox holiday / Dutch tourists / passive resistance / mindful rejection / selective rejection / motivatiions / Human Geography / Kulturgeografi |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29021733 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:umu:diva-137455 |