Push and pull factors are the influences which simulate a traveller’s choice on what destination to travel to. Crompton (1979) suggests that each person has the push factor, that comes from the intrinsic desires of the individual. This means that each traveller has a deep inner desire to travel, and is unable to settle this desire without travelling, the push factors within a person are generally the desire to escape, rest and relaxation, the need for adventure, health or to exude ones status or wealth (Kozak, 2000., & Correia., et al, 2013). Pull factors is essentially what the destination promotes to the traveller, in order to ‘pull’ the tourist into their destination. Every destination offers an abundance of products and services in order to attract tourist, therefore, each tourist has an opportunity to choose from a set of destinations, however, it is mainly related to the attractiveness of the destinations and tangible characteristics such as natural landscapes, recreation facilities and accommodation or cultural and historical resources (Kozak, 2000., & Crompton, 1979). For example, a resident in Cape Cod, an island in Southeastern Massachusetts, indicated that in the summer, mass crowds generally tend to travel to Cape Cod, for their summer vacation in order to escape the city. However, many local residents of Cape Cod, travel to Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermount in order to escape these crowds (Crompton, 1979). Therefore, the residents are pushed by the motivation of escaping from their mundane environment, and are pulled, into surrounding cites, with knowledge that they would be less busy then their
Push and pull factors are the influences which simulate a traveller’s choice on what destination to travel to. Crompton (1979) suggests that each person has the push factor, that comes from the intrinsic desires of the individual. This means that each traveller has a deep inner desire to travel, and is unable to settle this desire without travelling, the push factors within a person are generally the desire to escape, rest and relaxation, the need for adventure, health or to exude ones status or wealth (Kozak, 2000., & Correia., et al, 2013). Pull factors is essentially what the destination promotes to the traveller, in order to ‘pull’ the tourist into their destination. Every destination offers an abundance of products and services in order to attract tourist, therefore, each tourist has an opportunity to choose from a set of destinations, however, it is mainly related to the attractiveness of the destinations and tangible characteristics such as natural landscapes, recreation facilities and accommodation or cultural and historical resources (Kozak, 2000., & Crompton, 1979). For example, a resident in Cape Cod, an island in Southeastern Massachusetts, indicated that in the summer, mass crowds generally tend to travel to Cape Cod, for their summer vacation in order to escape the city. However, many local residents of Cape Cod, travel to Maine, New Hampshire, or Vermount in order to escape these crowds (Crompton, 1979). Therefore, the residents are pushed by the motivation of escaping from their mundane environment, and are pulled, into surrounding cites, with knowledge that they would be less busy then their