“Chill or thrill”: the impact of the “polarity paradox” on hospitality and tourism

Purpose – In a society of abundance, complexity, uncertainty and secularisation, consumers seek extreme market offerings. They thereby avoid the grey middle ground and rather seek white or black, or rather utopia or dystopia, in their experiences. This consumer behaviour is coined the Polarity Parad...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Anna De Visser-Amundson, Annemieke De Korte, Simone Williams
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Emerald Publishing 2016-03-01
Series:Journal of Tourism Futures
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Online Access:https://www.emeraldinsight.com/doi/pdfplus/10.1108/JTF-12-2015-0053