Leisure Ladder Model

Question 1

Need for basic needs services (food, space, toilets)
for restoration and personal maintenance and repair

Answer 1

Relaxation and Bodily Needs

Question 2

Need for excitement and safety (fun and thrill of rides, experience of the
unusual, out-of-the-ordinary settings and different foods and people.)

Answer 2

Stimulation

Question 3

Need to build and extend personal relationships
(tenderness, affection, joint activities, altruism and being directly involved)

Answer 3

Relationship

Question 4

Need to develop skills, knowledge and abilities
(how others see a person and one’s desire to be competent in control, respected
and productive)

Answer 4

Self-esteem and development

Question 5

Need to feel peacefully, profoundly happy
(magical as if transported top another world, spiritual and totally involved in
the setting)

Answer 5

Fulfillment

Question 6

This model is developed by Philip Pearce (Roy, 1999). It attempts to explain
individual behaviors on the basis of stages, in a tourist life cycle which is said to
be similar to an individual’s experience of work.

Answer 6

Leisure Ladder Model

Question 7

It is
somehow similar to Maslow hierarchy of needs because the model also explains
that tourists ascend only to higher needs once lower needs for a tourist in every
stage of their tourist life cycle.

Answer 7

Leisure Ladder Model