Swimming with Captive Dolphins:
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Dolphins have widespread contemporary appeal and anthropomorphic social representations of dolphins have fuelled a growing desire in tourist populations to seek interaction with them. This paper is concerned with the staged performance of swim-with dolphin interaction programmes in aquaria. Qualitative interviews with tourists who have swum with captive dolphins identified their immediate recollections stressed the grace, size and power of dolphins but a belief the experience was too staged, too short and too expensive. Post-purchase dissonance focussed on concerns with the size of enclosures and about captivity, too many tricks, limited interpretation and unfulfilled expectations of a quality interaction. (99 words)
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