This chapter focuses primarily on'the tourist'by exploring theories on tourism motivation and
introducing a range of different tourist typologies to familiarize the reader with sociological …

The purpose of this article is to review and assess the dominant social psychological and
related models of tourist motivation, reviewing the conceptual development of tourist …

REJOINDERS AND COMMENTARY proaches and definitions, he offered a working
definition: Tourism motivation is “a meaningful state of mind which adequately disposes an …

Abstract Dann, Graham MS, Tourist Motivation: An Appraisal. Annals of Tourism Research
1981, VIII (2): 187–219. Tourist motivation has been treated in a number of ways by …

Airports are a good location for observing others. Questions about the motivations of other
travellers are common in such contexts. Why is that older couple going to Florida? What …

The development of a self-report scale to measure leisure travel motivation is described.
Under increasingly competitive conditions, effective tourism marketing is impossible without …

Currently, in an evolving economy, the study of tourist behaviour is crucial for the field
specialists. Influenced by a variety of factors, tourists tend to change their behaviour in time …

This article examines key contributions to research on tourist motivations in the tourism
studies literature from two influential areas, social psychology and sociology. While much of …

Purpose–Current study is an attempt to look into the various theoretical concepts/theories
that help to understand what motivates individuals, especially young people, to travel and …

This paper examines tourist motivation and anticipation as interrelated phenomena in a
conceptual tourist cycle framework where anticipation comes first. Key points of motivation …