Why Destination Areas Rise and Fall in Popularity
01 Feb 1974-Cornell Hotel and Restaurant Administration Quarterly (SAGE Publications)-Vol. 14, Iss: 4, pp 55-58
TL;DR: For more than five years, we have been heavily engaged in attempting to understand this psychology of travel at Basico to assist multiple clients in the travel business as discussed by the authors, and this presentation leads sequentially through some of the studies we have conducted since our understanding about travel has grown over time.
Abstract: ANY APPROACH to understanding why destination or resort areas rise and fall in popularity inevitably must involve an understanding of the psychology of people who travel. For more than five years, we have been heavily engaged in attempting to understand this psychology of travel at Basico to assist multiple clients in the travel business. This presentation leads sequentially through some of the studies we have conducted since our understanding about travel has grown over time as we have explored particular areas more in depth. In 1967, we conducted our first important study
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...Thus travellers motivated by ‘sunlust’ (Gray, 1970) or ‘psychocentric’ (Plog, 1974) characteristics, for example, will prefer a destination featuring sunshine, beaches, resort hotels, or ski slopes, rather than onewhich has heritage resources located in remote areas....
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