Chapter 2 Flashcards
A travel personality that includes the desire to take risks and go without normal conveniences of life in order to gain a “fuller” travel experience. They prefer destinations where few have gone before.
Allocentric
A system of beliefs based on the values of right and wrong in a specific culture.
Code of Ethics
A desire to learn about music, architecture, folklore, religion, food, etc about another culture.
Cultural Motivators
Statistics that include age, marital status, gender, occupation, income, place of residence, etc.
Demographics
Time away from work and other obligations.
Discretionary Time
The money that one may spend at they please. The remaining money that is left over when the bills have been paid.
Discretionary Income (Money)
Another Term for Tourists. Starts with the letter G.
Guest
People, communities, or regions that entertain visiting guests.
Host
Intangible reasons for travel choices. For example, the need to escape, relax, learn, or for physical fitness.
Push Factors
Tangible reasons for travel. Examples include visiting friends and relatives, mountains, beaches.
Pull Factors
A code that outlines the skills, knowledge and attitudes/abilities for a given occupation.
Occupational Standards
The life stage of married couples whose children have grown and left home.
Empty Nest
The belief that individuals are in charge of what happens in their own lives.
Internal Locus of Control
The belief that events are determined by powerful individuals, fate or chance
External Locus of Control
An individual that is outgoing and uninhibited in interpersonal situations
Extrovert
A person who is more concerned with internal thoughts and feelings than the immediate expression of those ideas in public.
Introvert
In the context of travel personalities, this person falls between allocentric and psychocentric tendencies. Most people fall within this category.
Midcentric
A person who enjoys travel only when it is just like home. Known as the “armchair” traveller.
Psychocentric
The condition of not knowing or understanding the benefits of the tourism industry.
Tourism Illiteracy
A “promoter of action” whose purpose is fulfil a need or want
Motivators
Various descriptions of a person’s family composition at a specific point in time that influences particular behaviours and activities.
Family Life Stage
Information about people’s activities, opinions, motives , behaviours and interests. These are used for marketing purposes.
Psychographics
