Introduction: thinking about the tourist experience / Richard Sharpley & Philip R. Stone. Chapter 1 Ways of conceptualising the tourist experience: a review of literature/ Chris Ryan. Section 1 Dark tourism experiences: mediating between life and death / Philip R. Stone. Chapter 2 Exploring the conceptual and analytical framing of dark tourism: from darkness to intentionality / Tazim Jamal & Linda Lelo. Chapter 3 Thanatourism and the commodification of space in post-war Croatia and Bosnia / Tony Johnston. Section 2 Experiencing poor places: introduction. Chapter 4 Slumming - empirical results and oberservational-theoretical considerations on the backgrounds of township, favela and slum tourism / Manfred Rolfes. Chapter 5 Rights-based tourism - tourist engagement in social change, globalised social movements, and endogenous development in Cuba / Rochelle Spencer. Chapter 6 Tourists' photographic gaze: the case of Rio de Janeiro favelas / Palloma Menezes. Section 3 Sport tourism experiences: introduction. Chapter 7 'Sporting' new attractions? The commodification of the sleeping stadium / Sean Gammon. Chapter 8 Understanding sport tourism experiences: exploring the participant-spectator nexus / Richard Shipway & Naomi Kirkup. Chapter 9 We are family: IGLFA World Championships, London 2008 / Mac McCarthySection 4 Writing the tourist experience: introduction. Chapter 10 Creating your own Shetland: Tourist narratives from travelogues to blogs / Emma-Reetta Koivunen. Chapter 11 Narrating travel experiences: the role of new media / Ulrike Gretzel, Daniel R. Fesenmaier, Yoon Jung Lee & Iis Tussyadiah. Chapter 12 Learning from travel experiences: a system for analysing reflective learning in journals / S Quinlan Cutler & Barbara A Carmichael. Section 5 Researching tourist experiences: methodological approaches. Chapter 13 Qualitative method research and the 'tourism experience: a methodological perspective applied in a heritage setting / Mary Beth Gouthro. Chapter 14 Exploring space, the senses and sensitivities: spatial knowing / Martine C Middleton. Chapter 15 Kohlberg's Stages: Informing responsible tourist behavior / Davina Stanford.