A Three Dimensional Tourist Typology (original) (raw)

A Theoretical Proposal for Modelling Tourist Types and Behaviours

4th International Tourism Congress Proceedings, 2019

When the literature on tourist behaviours reviewed, there we find a basic concept related to tourists that can be termed as seeking. Tourists seek a variety of experiences and they all participate in tourist mobility in their way. In this study the concept of seeking analysed in the light of memetics. Tourist memes have defined as establishing bridges between tourism research and memetics. The tourist meme is identified as a meme that in a close or wide relation with tourist mobility which are carrying information about a place, an era or period of time, a culture, sub-cultures, cultural items, styles, behaviours, individuals themselves, completely imaginary things, a religion or a belief, an event, events or other memes and so on. It is accepted in meme/gene analogy when a meme spread into a brain, it associates with other memes in a kind of package or other words, in a memeplex. For this reason, tourist types re-identified as tourist memeplexes and tied theoretically with the concepts of awareness, focus and goal. Kanerva’s conception of focus is used to more broadly define what a meme was associated with, as Gabora does. In this statement, memes have accepted in the form of information patterns encoded within the focus indicating the scope and experiential quality of the individual’s awareness. The proposed theoretical model consists of three dimensions: tourist memeplex, focus and goal. With this proposal, it is aimed to assess different types of tourist experiences together which were defined by different authors. On the other hand, this model gives a chance to develop a new and complex taxonomy to assess various types of tourist experiences in a single framework.

A Review of Empirical Research on Plog's Psychographics in Tourism

Tourism Planning and Destination Marketing, 2024

One of the most well-known, seminal models in the tourism field is the one proposed 50 years ago by Stanley C. Plog. His venturesomeness model has been widely cited in journal articles, textbooks, and has also been used as a reference for planning and designing tourism marketing projects. However, empirical research using Plog's psychographics has yielded varied results, some of which have corroborated his model, while others have found partial or no support for some postulates. Therefore, the purpose of this chapter is to offer an exhaustive review of 47 studies in the literature which have employed Plog's venturesomeness concept to examine travelers' personality traits, attitudes, and behavior, synthetizing empirical findings and drawing conclusions from the cumulative results. A discussion of the model's contribution to the current body of knowledge, managerial implications for tourism practitioners, and directions for future research are presented.

Plog's Model of Personality-Based Psychographic Traits in Tourism: A Review of Empirical Research

Tourism Planning and Destination Marketing, 2018

Empirical research on Plog's psychographic model has yielded varied, inconclusive results, and the postulates of his conceptual framework are still subject to academic scrutiny. While some empirical investigations have corroborated the model, others have found partial or no support for it. Therefore , the purpose of this chapter is to offer an exhaustive review of 26 studies in the literature which have employed Plog´s venturesomeness concept to examine travellers' personality traits, attitudes, and behaviour, as a way to synthetise empirical findings and draw conclusions from the cumulative results. A discussion of the model's contribution to the current body of knowledge and managerial implications for tourism marketing practitioners are presented.

the concept through the mediating effects of psychographics constructs in tourist behaviour

Journal of basic and applied scientific research

The relationships of subjective norms as well as their roles in the causal relationships as constructs are main issues for understanding consumer behavior. Hence, the importance of subjective norms is not covered as a valuable subject. Since there are a few studies about causal relationships of latent variables as mediating effect in the tourism literature; the aim of this article is to pursue and present to discover those precise associations among subjective norms as variables which lead to a new model of them. Expectancy-Value Theory (EVT) and Theory of Planned Behavior (TPB) are employed as the base of created model from Structural Equation Modeling (SEM). Moreover, investigating of subjective issues is very useful to find out consumer behavior, while their concepts are as latent variables or intangibles are very complicated and sophisticated. Besides, tourism literature has a little information through the mediating effects of psychological variables which are led to tourism loyalty. However, the importance of mediating effects is valuable to know the customers how and why to do as well as to predict behavioral intentions. Further, the lack of conceptual framework from mentioned issues is improved by considering variables as subjective and their roles as mediating effects like lifestyle, personality and travel satisfaction between destination image and loyalty.

Psychographic Segmentation of Tourists

Journal of Travel Research, 1978

Life-style data are used to profile the tourists to Massachusetts. Only slight differences are found by season and by year. The tourism market is further segment ed on the basis of purpose of trip and type of destination. Psychographic and demographic differences in segments are noted and advertising strategies suggested for the different target markets.