“The use of traveling is to regulate imagination by reality, and instead of thinking how things may be, to see them as they are.” – Samuel Johnson
There are a wide variety of reasons why one would travel to a destination where he or she has never been before, or even more, has been countless times. Over the years, traveling has become a trend worldwide and it is growing at an overwhelming rate. According to the World Tourism Organisation (2015), the number of international tourists arrivals expanded from a total of 1087 million to 1133 million just within the stretch of a year. For that reason, it is important for us as consumers to understand the variables that come into play when we are planning for our next trip. The purpose of this paper …show more content…
Personality has been defined as “an organisation of cognition, feelings and behaviours, which gives a direction and pattern to our lives” (Hámori, 2006 cited in Kalmar-Rimoczi & Lenkovics 2015: 81). Each person can have multiple personality traits, thus our travel preferences and intentions are tied to. A theory that can further explain this factor is Plog’s Typology. This theory suggests that there is a relationship between personality types and travel choices, where tourists behavior can be categorized into psychocentrics, and allocentrics (Plog, 1974). Psychocentrics are known to be less adventurous and they would prefer to travel to places that are more familiar whereas allocentrics are known to be more adventurous and they are more prone to travel to exotic and unfamiliar places (Woodside, …show more content…
Each destination is unique to its own. Because of that, people are eager to explore and discover what it has to offer. The push and pull factor, formed by who, has been used widely in describing how a tourist is can be influenced by internal and external variables.
Recent studies have shown that respondents have rated “safety” as one of the most important factors taken in account when choosing for a place to travel to (Linh, 2015; Hsu et al., 2009). According to Linh (2015), the cost of traveling, culture, climate, and the environment were also important factors amongst college students. Furthermore, two of the factors that were rated highest in deciding on a city to travel to by Danish students were how convenient it was to get to their destination and if there were good shopping places present there (Tomić et al.,
There are a wide variety of reasons why one would travel to a destination where he or she has never been before, or even more, has been countless times. Over the years, traveling has become a trend worldwide and it is growing at an overwhelming rate. According to the World Tourism Organisation (2015), the number of international tourists arrivals expanded from a total of 1087 million to 1133 million just within the stretch of a year. For that reason, it is important for us as consumers to understand the variables that come into play when we are planning for our next trip. The purpose of this paper …show more content…
Personality has been defined as “an organisation of cognition, feelings and behaviours, which gives a direction and pattern to our lives” (Hámori, 2006 cited in Kalmar-Rimoczi & Lenkovics 2015: 81). Each person can have multiple personality traits, thus our travel preferences and intentions are tied to. A theory that can further explain this factor is Plog’s Typology. This theory suggests that there is a relationship between personality types and travel choices, where tourists behavior can be categorized into psychocentrics, and allocentrics (Plog, 1974). Psychocentrics are known to be less adventurous and they would prefer to travel to places that are more familiar whereas allocentrics are known to be more adventurous and they are more prone to travel to exotic and unfamiliar places (Woodside, …show more content…
Each destination is unique to its own. Because of that, people are eager to explore and discover what it has to offer. The push and pull factor, formed by who, has been used widely in describing how a tourist is can be influenced by internal and external variables.
Recent studies have shown that respondents have rated “safety” as one of the most important factors taken in account when choosing for a place to travel to (Linh, 2015; Hsu et al., 2009). According to Linh (2015), the cost of traveling, culture, climate, and the environment were also important factors amongst college students. Furthermore, two of the factors that were rated highest in deciding on a city to travel to by Danish students were how convenient it was to get to their destination and if there were good shopping places present there (Tomić et al.,