Task 1 Basing the research on the questionnaire, the interviewee is a person that loves adventure and unpredictable situations, that prefers to travel alone and explore new places. On the other hand, He avoids travelling with family in well-known destinations; cultural enrichment plays an important role in his life. Lengthening the interview, his standard of living can be well understood as a carpe diem, seizing the day, lifestyle (Smeyers, 2001). Task 2 Based on the Plog’s Psychographic classification; the respondent can be categorized as an allocentric tourist (Plog, 1977). Being sociable, self-confident and informal; qualities that are characteristics of this kind of tourists. One important matter that about the psychographic classification is that these trends are seen as something static. On the other hand, with the rapid change of technology, such as long-haul flights and destinations more available; political and economic fluctuation, people can diverge and move from a type to another in a very short time (Smith, 1990). Furthermore, he is characterized by a significant degree of adventure and is enthusiastic in experimenting life and wonder around unknown places, being a Wanderlust tourist (Gray, 1970). The interviewee can be positioned using Lumsdon’s lifecycle pattern, and is resulting in “Young person”, being in his twenties, single and not living at home (Lumsdon, 1997). The age is a fundamental factor in choosing a destination and the ranges of activities somebody attends. However this can be contradicted by Wheeler, stating that dividing tourists in age segments does not allow tourist behavioural changes during a period of time, and the differentiation is to attach the image of this typology of tourist to certain tour... ... middle of paper ... ...better understanding and peaceful appreciation (Jiaying & Robert, 2006). The presence of this kind of tourist in Tibet will cause economic, environmental and socio-cultural impacts. Most of all the host community will be receiving more attention, as the respondent is surely going to experience religious practices on the social side; by doing so, understanding the morals and standards of living of various ethnicities. Furthermore, on the cultural impact, the interviewee will get acquainted with material customs and acculturation (Shaw & Williams, 1994). After researching, Tibetan hosts try to understand the tourists in the context relating to their culture and previous interactions with them; placing them into a position to them familiar. For example locals classify tourists as “outsiders”, “foreigners”, “East-Asians” and different “city people” (Amuquandoh, 2010).
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He who does travel, does not know the value of men. Traveling is one of the most important things someone can achieve. If someone never travels they’ll never know the full extent of human accomplishments because they won't be there to admire the food, buildings, nature,animals, climate, people, and just everyday life in other cultures.
When telling their story, the narrators clearly express their aspirations of living an adventurous life. They both view international travel as a vessel for self-discovery and meaningful memories. For example, in Remembering My Childhood on the Continent of Africa, David Sedaris expresses his desires for life-long memories and international travel when he writes, “They weren’t rich, but what Hugh and his family lacked financially they more than made up for with the sort of exoticism that works wonders at cocktail parties, leading always to the remark, ‘that sounds fascinating’.” According to this passage, Sedaris seems to believe that money is less important than experiences and memories themselves. One is able to infer that he yearns for a life that is filled with adventures. He wants to have the ability to tell interesti...
They all have one thing in common though: every Tibetan family has been either directly or indirectly affected by the Chinese occupation. The Tibetan people have been forced to abandon their old methods and principles that defined who they were as a culture and now have to try to adapt to the new ones that have been forced upon them. This paper will examine the many ways in which Tibetan families have been directly and indirectly affected by the inherent components that define a Tibetan family, and how these have changed since the Chinese occupation. Family life in Tibet has changed forever and the Tibetans have been forced into a metamorphosis and restructuring of their family life to assume a new form. It looks as though their former heritage is likely to be lost forever.
“Tourist Point of View” is a piece written by Duke Ellington on the album “The Far East Suite.” The piece features the piano, the drums, the bass, the baritone saxophone, the tenor saxophone, and the trumpet. It is a medium to fast tempo piece with a steady percussion section in the background as the saxophones, trumpets, and other horns play in the foreground. This selection is in swing rhythmic feel. The piece has a rhythm and tempo that make it seem like you are on a journey.
Growing up in Midwest America, there is not much to look at. The trees, fields of grass, rolling hills, and small towns offer a dull environment for a teenager. There are hardly any monuments, sculptures, or architectural feats to gaze at in admiration. Ultimately, the Midwest appears very mundane. This monotonous landscape seems to push the idea of a typical lifestyle of conformity; one that customarily consists of attending school, finding a career, and settling down with a family. To fully procure an awareness and acceptance of different lifestyles, one must travel. Whether from town to town or on the other side of the planet, traveling allows a person to see the different cultures, beliefs, and beauties that make up our world; I believe in traveling.
This short story allows audiences to peruse the notion that traveling is not what life is about. While, it may be fun to have adventures from time to time it certainly will make your life flash before your eyes. The short story presses for audiences to prioritize their life and what morals to follow rather than blindly following a map of the world around.
Visiting Friends and Relatives tourism is mainly discussed and linked to one of the major motivations of travel- pleasure and business. Tourists who are usually involved this form of tourism regard themselves as ‘pleasure’ or ‘vacation tourists’ (Griffin, 2014). The concept of VFR travel is sometimes referred to as ‘ethnic tourism (Jackson, 1990; Morrison et al., 2000; Feng and Page, 2002; Hu and Morrison, 2002; Butler, 2003, Poet et al., 2004; Barnett et al., 2010). Since VFR travellers involved in different activities when they visit their original place of stay, a feeling of nostalgia can lead them to travel and connect with the part and for this reason why VFR travel is linked to ethnic tourism. It is crucial to understand the VFR travel
For the introduction, brief information regarding my purchase and the travel and tourism industry is presented. It was then followed by the explanation of the 2 chosen theories from two different chapters.
Consumer behavior incorporates certain activities, decisions or experiences, which satisfy the needs of the consumers. It concerns all the activities that incorporate consuming, obtaining and product disposing of that precedes and carry out these actions (Darling, 2015). The Consumer behavior remains one of the important areas for research in the tourism and marketing fields in terms of travel behavior or the behavior of tourist (Rid, Ezeuduji & Pröbstl-Haider 2014). There are a few comprehensive literature reviews on the behavior of consumer typically described his injurious area with the help of the existing models or concepts of Consumer Behavior. There are exceptions in the insights of the authors who give the review about
When people travel to a destination, they sure have some motivation to motivate them to make the decision. ‘Motivation’ is the key term that will make the tourist to consider the reason to travel around. During the decision making process, people will consider some of the reasons before they confirm travel to a destination. The research that has conducted in The Netherland found out a remarkably high propensity to travel, 70% of the populations are taking one holiday per year and 24% was taking two holidays per year for holiday. Some of the people will affect their decision making by looking at destination image or some of the impact advertising. On the internet, business people will use image and advertising to attract tourist to travel to the destination by using image that they edit before. This is part of the marketing to promote their country to tourist. For family traveler, they will consider the distance and transportation travel to the destination. When go for travel, tourist will bring the whole family to travel. Then, they will consider old people who travel long journey are very hard for them. If one of the family members are senior citizen, they need to consider their healthy. Some of the senior citizen cannot take long journey, such as they have sickness. Bring children go for holiday also need to be consider. Some of the children will afraid of the highest in the plane, so they will feel uncomfortable. There is plenty of reason need to consider before making any decision to travel. For understanding tourist motivation and decision making is for two main reason, planning consideration and economic consideration. (Page & Connell, 2009) Before the tourist travel to a destination, they need to think about culture, climat...
He write “Adventure Tourists – that’s those young people who come with back packs, take selfies all over the place, and talk loudly about how ‘awesome’ they are in the bar, isn’t it? “. (Local Council Member: 1). Author of this reasoning show unknowingness of a basic idea of who is the Adventure Tourist. Research conducted in 2014 by The Adventure Tourism Trade Association, demonstrate that global average age of Adventure Tourism customer is 48. (ATTA, Industry Snapshot) This information prove that not only young people are adventure tourist, furthermore they are the minority. Next words of Local Council Member who suggest that this kind of tourist don’t have a jobs, are again the falsehood. According to ATTA, the average global trip price per day is 477 US Dollars, this statistic indicates that customers of this niche of tourism definitely have a financial resources to pay for their active holidays. There is no research about employment of average adventure tourist, but it can be assumed that most of them earn their money at some kind of work. Local Council Member said that in his opinion this part of industry not bringing much money in. As stated in UNWTOs “Global Report on Adventure Tourism” in comparison, on a global level, non-adventure tourists spend about 500 US Dollars per person per holiday, this is about 40% less than the amount spent by adventure tourists. What is more in mass tourism, approximately four-fifths of the revenue from a trip goes to airlines, hotels and other international companies. In contrast, in adventure tourism, quarter of the revenue goes to local communities. This means that this niche brings more money than ordinary kind of tourism and is more beneficial to local
"…brings into contact people from different nations, socioeconomic classes, and ethnicities." (p. 2) As such, the authors argue that historical studies of tourism reveal human interaction that is "both pleasurable and profitable as well as exploitative and depleting."
In the more economically developed countries (MEDCs), synonymous mainly with the industrialised countries of the northern hemisphere there, has been an explosion in the growth of leisure and tourism industry, which is now believed to be the worlds second largest industry in terms of money generated. In order to differentiate between leisure and tourism it should be recognised that leisure often involves activities enjoyed during an individual’s free time, whereas tourism commonly refers to organised touring undertaken on a commercial basis. Development in the two areas could be attributed to changing patterns in working lives within the last four decades. Generally, people now have more disposable wealth, work shorter hours, receive longer, paid annual leave, retire earlier and have greater personal mobility. In addition, according to Marshall & Wood (1995), the growth of the tourist industry per se can be associated, in part, with the concentration of capital; the emergence of diversified leisure based companies, sometimes within wider corporate conglomerates and often associated with particular airlines. Furthermore, the development of tourism can generate employment both directly, in jobs created in the hotels, restaurants etc, and indirectly, through expenditure on goods and services in the local area. Nevertheless, although the tourist industry is competitive, which essentially keeps down the cost of foreign travel, the success of tourism in any one area can be ‘influenced by weather, changing consumer tastes, demographics, economic cycles, government policy, not to mention international terrorism and other forms of conflict.’(1) Although such factors may have a detrimental affect on the economy of a popular tourist destination (or even tourism in general, in light of September 11th 2001), the consequence of tourism in general is often three fold: environmental, social and cultural, which in turn has prompted a search for new ‘friendly’ approaches that are less destructive.