Jazzphen Ian Sequitin

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MACRO PERSPECTIVE IN TOURISM AND HOSPITALITY

CHAPTER 5

1. SOCIOLOGY OF TOURISM

is an emergent specialty concerned with the study of touristic motivation,

roles, relationships and institutions and of their impact on tourists and on the
societies who receive them.

2. SOCIOECONOMIC VARIABLES AND THEIR EFFECTS

 AGE
Different demographs means different wants during travel

 INCOME AND SOCIAL STATUS

Differences in income and social status of tourists greatly influences
their travel

 EDUCATION
The more a person is educated the more it greatly desires to travel
due to knowledge acquisition

3. ERIC COHEN’S 4 MAJOR TOURIST TYPES

 ORGANIZED MASS TOURIST

Follows a tour guide, follows an itinerary in advance, prefers a
familiar place

 INDIVIDUAL MASS TOURIST

Not bound to a group, somewhat control his own time and itinerary

 THE EXPLORER
Travels alone, seeks comfortable accommodations and reliable
means of transport, associates himself with the local and their
culture but never fully adapts to their lifestyle, goes back to his
home country when experience becomes to rough and unbearable

 THE DRIFTER
Highly adventurous, does not seek the help of tour agency but
arranges his travel by himself, retains only the most basic of his
native customs, tries to live the lifestyle of the people he visits and
tries to engage and share with their food, shelter and habits.