Chapter 2 ~ Tourism Guests and Hosts Flashcards
A system of beliefs based on the values of right and wrong in a specific culture.
Code of Ethics
These kinds of traveller are willing to take risks, and prefer to go where few people have been before.
Allocentric
A desire to know and learn more about the music, architecture, food, art, folklore, or religion of other people.
Cultural Motivators
Used for understanding who the travellers are to a particular site. (eg. age, marital status, gender, occupation, income, and place of residence)
Demographics
Time away from work and other obligations.
Discretionary Time
The money that one may spend as one pleases.
Discretionary Income (Money)
Another term of tourists.
Guests
People, communities, or regions that entertain visiting guests.
Hosts
Intangible reasons for travel choices, such as the need to escape, the need for culture, or a need for physical fitness.
Push Factors
Tangible reasons for travel choices, such as friends, mountains, and beaches.
Pull Factors
A code that outlines the skills, knowledge, and attitudes that an individual must demonstrate and practise to be deemed fit for a giving job.
Occupational Standards
The life stage of married couples whose children have grown and left home.
Empty Nest
The belief that events are determined by fate, chance, or powerful individuals.
External Locus of Control
The belief that people are in charge of what happens in their own lives.
Internal Locus of Control
An individual who 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
The halfway point between allocentrics and phychocentrics. Most people fit into this category.
Midcentric
A traveller who enjoys travel only when it is just like home. (armchair travellers)
Phychocentric
The condition of not knowing or understanding the benefits of the tourism industry.
Tourism Illiteracy
A “promoter of action” whose purpose is to fulfill 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
Often used for marketing purposes; Information about people’s activities, opinions, motives, behaviours, and interests.
Phychographics
