Understanding performativity and embodied tourism experiences in animal-based tourism in the Arctic

• Main Authors: Haanpää, Minni, García-Rosell, José Carlos
• Other Authors: Dixit, Saurabh Kumar
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Routledge 2020
• Subjects: tourism experiences; body; performativity; co-creation; dog sledding; arctic; tourism; Huskies; Sled dogs; embodiment; animal-based tourism; nature-based tourism; Arctic tourism; Lapland; service design; consumer research; tourism business; /dk/atira/pure/person/fieldofscience2010/5/20/4; name=Tourism research; Arctic; Jokinen
• Online Access: https://research.ulapland.fi/fi/publications/d28f6372-54ef-4a97-9d94-6a151d5e1330; http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=85103697504&partnerID=8YFLogxK; http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=85103697504&partnerID=8YFLogxK

Tourism experiences are lived and performed through the body. Embodiedness and performativity are central concepts in understanding how we experience different tourism environments. In this chapter, we reflect on these concepts through empirical data on animal-based tourism experiences in Finnish La...