Contemporary Tourism Contemporary Tourists, Tourist Behaviour and Flows Contemporary Tourism 3rd edn © Goodfellow Publishers 2016.

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1 Contemporary Tourism Contemporary Tourists, Tourist Behaviour and Flows Contemporary Tourism 3rd edn © Goodfellow Publishers 2016

2 Lecture Objectives I Understand different approaches to categorising different types of tourism Appreciate factors that have contributed to the growth of international tourism Understand the significance of wildcard events that may slow or reduce tourism growth Identify factors that may explain the short-term stability of tourist flows and patterns Understand the roles of distance and accessibility as key factors in determining tourism flows Contemporary Tourism 3rd edn © Goodfellow Publishers 2016

3 Lecture Objectives II Understand the characteristics of mass and alternative tourism Understand the nature of special interest tourism Appreciate psychographic and motivational approaches to explaining tourist behaviour Appreciate the significance of lifecourse approaches to explaining changes in tourism behaviour over the life of an individual as well as cohort value shift with respect to tourism. Contemporary Tourism 3rd edn © Goodfellow Publishers 2016

4 Tourism Movement Macro scale – explain the movement of people in aggregate form, e.g. spatial flows Micro scale – often seek to explain individual tourist behaviours on the basis of theories of tourist psychology and motivation Meso scale – integrate aggregate and individual accounts of tourist behaviour, e.g. time geography Contemporary Tourism 3rd edn © Goodfellow Publishers 2016

5 International travel A range of factors: Not random Predicting 1.8 billion by 2030 (UNWTO 2012) Key destination areas - East Asia and the Pacific, Americas and Europe. –relative importance changes over time according to changes in the constraints on travel –By 2030 57% of international arrivals will be in emerging economies (30% in 1980) and 43% in advanced economies (70% in 1980). Contemporary Tourism 3rd edn © Goodfellow Publishers 2016

6 Wild Card Events high magnitude, low frequency events: World wars or major international conflicts; Serious economic depression or period of severe recession over a large number of countries; Rapid increase (or fluctuations) in the price of a major energy source that is used for transportation, particularly oil; and Outbreaks of contagious disease. Contemporary Tourism 3rd edn © Goodfellow Publishers 2016

7 Inertia Strong year on year stability due to Information feedback Distance International connections Attraction Relative cost Intervening opportunities Image Culture Contemporary Tourism 3rd edn © Goodfellow Publishers 2016

8 Describing Tourism Mass and alternative Special interest Gray’s wanderlust and sunlust Cohen’s classification Plog’s classification Classifications by motivations Contemporary Tourism 3rd edn © Goodfellow Publishers 2016

9 Mass & Alternative Tourism mass tourism refers to the production of industrially organised tourism that supports the movement of large numbers of people Contemporary Tourism 3rd edn © Goodfellow Publishers 2016

10 Characteristics of Mass Tourism Highly seasonal tourism demand Middle and low class tourists from urban-industry areas Large numbers of tourists in ratio to locals Spatial focus on a few areas within the destination, associated with spatial concentration of facilities Exploitation of local values, behaviours and languages Organisation by international tourism operators Exploitation of natural resources Undifferentiated products Origin-packaged holidays Reliance upon developed generating markets Contemporary Tourism 3rd edn © Goodfellow Publishers 2016

11 Alternative tourism Many alternative tourisms Are mass and alternative tourism polar opposites? On a relative per visitor basis tourism in mass tourism destinations may be extremely efficient and have smaller environmental impacts than an ecotourism destination. Contemporary Tourism 3rd edn © Goodfellow Publishers 2016

12 Special Interest Tourism concept often closely associated with alternative tourism SIT occurs when travel motivation and decision making is primarily determined by a particular special interest, that is often associated with ‘serious leisure’ –just attending at particular attraction or engaging is a specific activity does not make it a special interest Contemporary Tourism 3rd edn © Goodfellow Publishers 2016

13 Micro-scale approaches typologies of tourists that focus on psychological types or personality traits: –“wanderlust” / “sunlust” –“psychocentric”, “midcentric” and “allocentric” Motivational studies: “push” and “pull” –in some cases the destination may be incidental to the trip! Contemporary Tourism 3rd edn © Goodfellow Publishers 2016

14 Meso-Scale Approaches Interested in changing patterns over time: –Life course approach – emphasizes that changes in one dimension of the household- aging process are linked to changes in other dimensions, e.g. employment, location, in seeking to explain behaviours –Cohort analysis, e.g. comparing different generations of tourism behaviour In both approaches travel is regarded as more routine Contemporary Tourism 3rd edn © Goodfellow Publishers 2016

15 Recommended reading Backer, E. & King, B. (Eds.) (2015). VFR Travel Research: International Perspectives. Bristol: Channelview. Cohen, S. A., Prayag, G. & Moital, M. (2014). Consumer behaviour in tourism: Concepts, influences and opportunities. Current Issues in Tourism, 17(10), 872-909. Hall, C.M. (2014). Tourism and Social Marketing. London: Routledge. Visser, G. & S. Ferreira, S. (eds) (2013). Tourism and Crises, London: Routledge. Contemporary Tourism 3rd edn © Goodfellow Publishers 2016