Tourism behaviour: travellers' decisions and actions
Tourism behaviour: travellers' decisions and actions [electronic resource]
Edited by R. St. George March, A. G. Woodside.
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- Wallingford UK CABI Publishing 2005
- 280pp.;
- CABI Books .
- CABI Books .
How do individuals go about making trade-off's among work, leisure, travel, and personal maintenance(e.g. sleeping) activities? What are the unconscious as well as conscious drivers of their behaviours?How well do their behaviours follow what they plan? These questions are fundamental in consumerbehaviour. This book provides fresh insights in responding to these issues.This book examines alternative theories and the empirical testing of trade-offs we make in life amongwork, leisure, travel, and personal maintenance actions and how our plans relate to what we actuallydo. Tourism Behaviour considers plans and behaviours for tourist spending, length of stay, attractions,destinations, accommodation and activities, and investigates how marketing strategies affect consumerplans. This book provides new theory, empirical studies, and practical insights of significant interest totravel and leisure researchers, destination marketing managers, and advanced students in tourism andconsumer behaviour.
9781845931018
10.1079/9780851990217.0000 doi
USA Polynesia choice consumer behavior APEC countries tourists travel OECD Countries United States of America visitor behavior decision making marketing Oceania Commonwealth of Nations Western States of USA visitor behaviour behavior travellers Pacific Islands tourism theory psychological factors behaviour consumer behaviour Pacific States of USA Hawaii Prince Edward Island tourism PEI Canada Australasia North America America Australia Developed Countries planning psychology
How do individuals go about making trade-off's among work, leisure, travel, and personal maintenance(e.g. sleeping) activities? What are the unconscious as well as conscious drivers of their behaviours?How well do their behaviours follow what they plan? These questions are fundamental in consumerbehaviour. This book provides fresh insights in responding to these issues.This book examines alternative theories and the empirical testing of trade-offs we make in life amongwork, leisure, travel, and personal maintenance actions and how our plans relate to what we actuallydo. Tourism Behaviour considers plans and behaviours for tourist spending, length of stay, attractions,destinations, accommodation and activities, and investigates how marketing strategies affect consumerplans. This book provides new theory, empirical studies, and practical insights of significant interest totravel and leisure researchers, destination marketing managers, and advanced students in tourism andconsumer behaviour.
9781845931018
10.1079/9780851990217.0000 doi
USA Polynesia choice consumer behavior APEC countries tourists travel OECD Countries United States of America visitor behavior decision making marketing Oceania Commonwealth of Nations Western States of USA visitor behaviour behavior travellers Pacific Islands tourism theory psychological factors behaviour consumer behaviour Pacific States of USA Hawaii Prince Edward Island tourism PEI Canada Australasia North America America Australia Developed Countries planning psychology