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Understanding Tourism and Tourist Behavior

Tourism is defined as short-term travel by people away from their normal residence for pleasure or business purposes. It incorporates leisure activities and is supported by industries like hospitality and transport. Tourist behavior involves how individuals select, purchase, use, and dispose of tourism products and services to satisfy wants and needs. Researchers study tourist behavior and divide it into varied regional development patterns and different tourism types like visiting friends, business, religious, health, and educational travel.

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Understanding Tourism and Tourist Behavior

Tourism is defined as short-term travel by people away from their normal residence for pleasure or business purposes. It incorporates leisure activities and is supported by industries like hospitality and transport. Tourist behavior involves how individuals select, purchase, use, and dispose of tourism products and services to satisfy wants and needs. Researchers study tourist behavior and divide it into varied regional development patterns and different tourism types like visiting friends, business, religious, health, and educational travel.

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What is Tourism?

Tourism is defined as a short-term movement of people to places some


distance from their normal place of residence to indulge in pleasurable
activities.
It may also involve travel for business purposes.
An activity which is serviced by a number of other industries such as hospitality and
transport.
Incorporates leisure

What is Tourist Behaviour?


Study of why people buy the product they do, and how they make their
decision - Horner and Swarbrooke (1996)
It is process involved when individuals or groups select, purchase, use or
dispose of products, services , ideas or experiences to satisfy needs and
wants - Solomon (1996)
Those activities directly involved in obtaining, consuming, and disposing
of products and services including the decision processes that precedes
and follows these actions. - Engel, Blackwell and Miniard (2001)

DEVELOPMENT OF TOURIST BEHAVIOUR

Divided in two aspects:

The varied type and pace of development in the different regions of the world.

The different types of tourism have developed including

(Visiting Friends and Relatives)


Business
Religious
Health
Educational

LEONELA COBEA PINCAY


The macro-line of research named Strategy was identified from the group of words
related to the concept of competitiveness.
The Management macro-line resulted from grouping the words that referred to the
management of tourist firms and institutions.
Marketing was defined as one of the macro-lines to classify research dealing with
issues related to consumer (tourist) behavior and destination branding.
In the case of the Development macro-line, the grouped keywords were drawn from
articles that focused on tourism's impact on the development of host localities.
Sustainability was the macro-line of research that congregated the greatest number
of articles exploring themes related to the environment and sustainable development.
The Public Policies line of research included the articles in which keywords referred
to issues related to public sector policies towards tourism.
The Niche macro-line was established due to the identification of a large number of
articles that dealt with specific tourism segments such as religion and adventure.
The Research macro-line emerged from the keywords related to research
methodologies and academic research methods in the tourism field.

LEONELA COBEA PINCAY

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