Tourism Management

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Date: January 28, 2011

Chapter 9

4. “Why do certain groups of people choose certain holiday experiences?” is a much better question. Why?

Because this more specific question focuses attention on the similarities among groups of people and the kinds of experiences they seek.

5. Identify five motivations for travel of Europeans during Roman times, the middle Ages, and Tudor times. Do such motivations exist today?

Roman times:

1. Owned summer resorts

2. Avoid the heat of the cities

3. Indulge in a social life

4. Visit to the Egyptian monuments

5. Collecting souvenirs

Middle ages:

1. Pilgrimage

2. Revelry and feasting

3. Seeking assistance or bounty of their god

4. To revere the deity

Tudor times

1. Grand Tour – training ground for young and wealthy

6. How important are the motives of discovery and curiosity?

Very important, as they satisfy the desire of a person to learn and understand a variety of things.

8. Provide a few examples of how a person’s travel needs change over a life span.

As a teenager, the need for travel is based on stimulation and building relationships; as a young adult, developing relationships and the need for relaxation. As an adult, the needs is based on escape, and status.

9. Give an example of travel experience over-stimulation (mental or physical exhaustion or both). Similarly, give an example of boredom (too little stimulation).

Over-stimulation: a tourism product set up for a party lifestyle; the many roller coater and other theme park rides.

Boredom: a visit to a museum

Chapter 10

1. Evaluate culture as a travel motivator.

As a travel motivator, culture is a very rich and diverse factor that determines the overall attractiveness of a tourism region.

3. Give an example of a cultural experience that would be most satisfying to a...