Luxury Tourism: Market Trends, Changing Paradigms, and Best Practices
In: Tourism, Hospitality and Event Management Ser.
In: Tourism, hospitality & event management
Intro -- Preface -- Contents -- Editors and Contributors -- Introduction -- Literature -- Development of the Macro-environment of the (Luxury) Tourism Market -- 1 Preliminary Remarks -- 2 Political-Legal Environment -- 3 Economic Environment -- 4 Sociocultural Environment -- 5 Technological Environment -- 6 Ecological-Natural Environment -- 7 Conclusion -- Literature -- Analysis of the Luxury Phenomenon -- 1 Definition and Concepts of Luxury -- 2 Understanding of Luxury in the Course of Time -- 3 Economic Relevance of Luxury Markets -- 4 Future Scenarios of the Luxury Phenomenon -- 5 Study Results on the Travel and Booking Behavior of Luxury Travel Customers -- Literature -- Behavioral Explanations of Luxury Consumption -- 1 Luxury in a Changing Sociocultural Environment -- The Concept of Luxury -- Luxury in Times of Shortage -- The Big Feast -- A Question of Taste -- The Birth of Capitalism from the Spirit of Asceticism -- The Birth of Capitalism from the Spirit of Waste -- Demonstrative Consumption in the Bourgeois Age -- Democratization of Luxury -- Interwar Period -- Post-war Period -- Luxury in Times of Abundance -- Concluding Remark -- 2 Behavioral Explanations for Luxury Consumption -- Introduction -- The Essence of Luxury: It Is All About an Extraordinary Experience -- The Drivers of Luxury Consumption -- Motivational Theories: Luxury and Needs -- Self-Concept: Luxury and Identity -- Experiential Consumption: Luxury and Emotions -- Consumer Value: Luxury and Dimensions of Consumer Value -- Discussion and Implications for Luxury Tourism -- 3 The Purchase Decision and Service Consumption Process for Luxury Goods -- The Creation of Desire -- Introduction -- Luxury and the Creation of Desire -- Desire and the Service Consumption Process -- Pre-purchase Stage -- Service Encounter Stage -- Post-encounter Stage.