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Showing 1 to 12 of 12 for “"Tourist Motivation"”.
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Determinants of cultural event tourist motivation
This thesis investigates the determinants of tourist motivation to ascertain the new audience potential of Western and Asian tourists for locally-based, cultural attractions and events, and the associated effective marketing strategies necessary to attract these tourism markets.
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Tourist motivation to use homestays in Thailand and their satisfaction based on the destination's cultural and heritage based attribute
This research explores the motivations and demographic characteristics of tourists and investigates which attributes satisfy tourists who visit cultural destinations. It is hypothesized that tourists' overall satisfaction of a destination is a function of attribute and tourists' motivation. …
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Analysing International Sports Fan Motivations and Constraints: The Case of Japanese International Sports Fan Tourists and Rugby World Cup Fan Tourists
… players. The number of international sports fan tourists has increased, and understanding their behaviour is very important for stakeholders and those involved in marketing, such as sports organisations, travel companies, and government tourist organisations. This study examines the motivations …
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Exploring the Minds of Sex Tourists: The Psychological Motivation of Liminal People
… Despite this, little research has examined the motivation of sex tourists. The purpose of this study is to develop an understanding of the sex tourism phenomenon and, more specifically, motivation of tourists. This study is exploratory and qualitative in nature. Two key propositions are …
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The value of watchable wildlife: measuring the impacts of bear viewing in British Columbia
… elements within the industry. I incorporated a tourist motivation questionnaire to describe the importance of bear viewing on choice to visit the region and province in order to accurately allocate visitor expenditures. Responses support the presence of a wildlife-viewer tourist typology. …
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Prosuming visuality, authenticity and urban exploration within tourist experiences
… years. These books, papers and chapters explore tourist motivation and experiences in a range of contemporary contexts. The body of work moves from mainstream discussion around sustainability and slow tourism in the tourist decision making process to the use of visual media to explore, understand …
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Consent and meaningful experiences at regional Burning Man events
… literature about the importance of consent on tourists’ experiences and further validates the applicability of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs as a measure for studying tourist motivation. In the end, the results of this study show that tourists who attend regional Burns find belonging and a space …
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Sporting Pasts – Tourist Futures
… to the knowledge in the areas of sport tourist motivation with particular reference to nostalgia and heritage. More specifically, the synthesis demonstrates that the selected studies have contributed in laying the foundations of sport tourism by introducing and explaining the synergistic …
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Co-producing the nature-based adventure tourism experience: tourist, environment and management contributions
… explored factors and processes that influence tourists’ experience and satisfaction, guided by the view that the tourist experience and satisfaction is co-produced by tourist, environment, and management. A review of the satisfaction research in marketing, tourism, and recreation found that the …
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Links Between Cultural Heritage Tourism and Overall Sense of Tourist Well-Being
… segment of tourism industry. Moreover, many tourists prefer exploring something new, cultural heritage tourism (CHT) has become one of the major "new" segments of tourism demand. Therefore, it is true that cultural heritage tourism has been one of the major sources of both quantitative and …
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Destination benchmarking: facilities, customer satisfaction and levels of tourist expenditure
… of benchmarking in tourism and particularly in tourist destinations. The aim of this research is to further develop the concept of benchmarking for application within tourist destinations and to evaluate its potential impact on destination performance.</p> <p>A holistic model for destination …
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Tourist experiences of urban historic areas: Valletta as a case study
… but inadequate for a proper understanding of the tourist experience of urban spaces and urban areas. For a better understanding, it is considered useful to develop a model variant whereby the tourist, and not the urban space, is the focus. The variant, referred to as the tourist interaction model, …