Importance Of Motivation And Expectations In Tourism

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2.1.3.2 Personal Realm

While the influential realm encompasses all the elements of a tourist experience which are outside the individual including the physical environment, the social environment and the tourism products and services, the personal realm embraces the elements within a person. This includes motivation and expectation, satisfaction/dissatisfaction, knowledge, memory, perception, self-identity and emotions.

2.1.3.3 Motivation and Expectation

Literature on tourist experience outlines the importance of both motivation and expectation in the overall evaluation of the experience of a destination. Although there are a number of variables shaping the tourist behaviour, motivation and expectation are often considered as the most critical ones as they constitute the driving force behind all behavioural actions of tourists towards a destination (Fodness, 1994). This is also reiterated by
46). Motivation directly influences the overall assessment of a tourism activity (Ryan, 2002b) and sets the stage for forming people’s goals (Mansfeld, 2000). As it is reflected in both travel choice and travel behaviour, it influences the tourists’ expectations towards a destination, which in turn determine the perception of their experience of the destination. Motivation is therefore a determinant of satisfaction (Gnoth, 1997). This is also reiterated by Garcia-Mas and Garcia-Mas (2005) pinpointing that motivation exists when a person is able to create an impulse that leads to a need, which in turn creates a feeling of satisfaction until the created need has been satisfied. In tourism, travel needs and motivations reinforce the first expectations of a tourism activity and can even influence its final outcome (Quinlan Cutler & Carmichael,

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