Session 3: Motivation

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Session 3 Motivation Expectations

• Karina M. Smed

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Course Contents Fall 2006

• Session 1 Introduction Definitions Concepts
  ( 7 Sep.)
• Session 2 Tourism in the Context of History (14
  Sep.)
• Session 3 Motivation Expectations (21 Sep.)
• Session 4 Interaction between Local Populations
  Tourists (28 sep.)
• Session 5 Authenticity Modernity (5 Oct.)
• Session 6 Sustainability Culture (12 Oct.
  10-12, Fib. 2, rm. 17-19)
• Session 7 Culture as a Commodity (27 Oct. 10-12,
  Fib. 2, rm. 125)
• Session 8 The Influence of Globalisation (27
  Oct. 12-14, Fib. 2, rm. 125)

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Agenda 9-21-2006

• Tourist motivation studies
• Push Pull
• Tourist typologies
• Tourism as the extraordinary
• Occurring changes
• Group Work

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7 Denmark Experiences

• Why vacation in Denmark?
• 7 categories of experiences
• Problem?

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What they seek in Denmark

• Calmness
• Natures free pleasures
• Nature activities
• Summer fun
• The good life
• City break
• City visits

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Motivational factors(after Burns 199942)

• Push factors
• push the tourist out to the destination
• Inner motivations self-realisation, curiousity,
  education etc.

• Pull factors
• pull the tourist in to the destination
• outer motivations destination attractiveness,
  perception of inner fullfilment through the
  destination etc.

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Cohens tourist typology (1974)
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Other typologies

• Plog allocentric/psychocentric traveller
• Amex consumer behaviour
• Wahab primary purposes
• Smith social and cultural impacts
• Pearce travel career pattern
• Uriely work/leisure distinction

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Pearce

• combination of individual and mass
• Attempt to redevelop a typology based on tourist
  motivation

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Tourism as the extraordinary

• Tourism not work, recreation, play, away from
  home environment, voluntary
• work not leisure, everyday, at home, necessity

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Durkheim (1912)
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In relation to culture

• Push and pull
• Travel career

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Case Travelling workers and working tourists

• Discuss what the distinction between working
  tourists and travelling workers signifies?
• Describe the relationship between motivation
  (within each of the two tourist groups in the
  text) and the working/travelling matrix
• Discuss how the perception of a combined
  working/tourist experience (choose the groups
  where you find it relevant) relates to tourists
  search for authentic experiences?
• Discuss how the intercultural encounter between
  local population and tourists may be affected by
  this combined experience? (consider the two
  groups of tourists)