HSP M 260 Chapter 10

Pearce's Travel Career Ladder: a 5-level hierarchy model - its components.

1) Relaxation; 2) Stimulation; 3) Relationship; 4) Self-esteem and development; 5) Fulfillment. (RSRSDF)

Destination restorative qualities model: Fascination

A destination's ability to hold visitor attention effortlessly

Murray's classification of needs:

Ambition, Materialism, Power, Affection, and Information (AMPAI)

Destination restorative qualities model:

Compatibility, Fascination, Physical Away-ness , Mental Away-ness, Orientation, Scope

Destination restorative qualities model: Compatibility

Congruence or match between a visitor and the place he/she visits; It makes visitor feel more at ease and restful

Alderfer's ERG theory: Existence, Relatedness and Growth

Existence, Relatedness and Growth (ERG)

Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs: survival, safety, social, esteem, and self-actualization needs.

False - Survival, Safety, Belonging and love, esteem, and self-actualization

Whats the t stand for in Travel Motivation POST Scheme?

Motivation Tangibilization: A consumer develops specific wants or goals depending on his or her travel motives and beliefs.

Whats the o stand for in Travel Motivation POST Scheme?

Motivational Orientation: People seek to travel to 1) escape undesirable situations in life, and to 2) seek desirable situations; That is, A lack of alone time may drive the individual to travel to escape social engagements and to seek solitary times.

Whats the s stand for in Travel Motivation POST Scheme?

Motivational Strength: the psychological potency of one's beliefs about the benefits that a particular trip can generate or the beliefs that travel in general can generate.

Fundamental Human Needs are described by various theories

Murray's classification of needs, Maslow's Hierarchy of needs, Alderfer's ERG theory, and Max-Neef's need classification scheme

Whats the p stand for in Travel Motivation POST Scheme?

Preconditions: a person can develop travel motivations based on two broad preconditions: 1) need deficiency (Undesirable or subpar personal circumstances in work life, personal life, or health/wellness status can dictate how they are motivated to travel) and 2) curiosity (The curious nature of human beings can lead people to wonder, ponder, and voyage. )

Destination restorative qualities model:Destination orientation

Sense of orientation and ease at a destination or hospitality service environment is imperative (e.g., road sign designs and placements, site configuration and orientation, timely information) and guiding services, and interpretive programs

Max-Neef's need classification scheme: 9 human needs:

Subsistence, Protection, Affection, Understanding, Participation, Leisure, Creation, Identity, and Freedom (SPAUPLCIF)

Maslow's hierarchy of needs:

Survival (the bottom need), Safety, Belonging and love, Esteem, Self-actualization (the top need) (SSBES)

People can be de-motivated to travel.

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People travel to escape undesirable situations and seek desirable situations.

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Travel Motivation POST Scheme: Travel motivation's Preconditions, Orientations, Strength, and Tangibilization - people travel to seek "desirable" situations and escape desirable situations in life.

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Travel benefits: Travel gain durability framework - some leisure travel benefits are fleeting, while others are of a more enduring nature.

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Vacation has become a national health and wellness strategy for many countries because travel can be a healing mechanism.

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What are travel benefits? a. Travel needs, wants, motivations, and benefits are overlapping terms that are not conceptually equivalent.

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Travel need :

a manifest human need, expressible in terms of fundamental needs such as Maslow's self-actualization

Destination restorative qualities model: Physical away-ness:

a sense of escapism from peoples' daily routine and environment

Dann (1977)'s push and pull factors: understand differences between the two factors and examples of each.

a. Push factors: the intrinsic motives or psychological forces that drive people to seek out travel activities. b. Pull factors: external factors that attract people toward a particular travel destination once push factors lead to the rise of travel desire.

Travel motivation:

consumers' psychological impetuses for using travel to satisfy fundamental human needs

Travel benefit:

positive personal outcomes brought upon consumers as a result of travel, or one's general beliefs about such positive outcomes

Destination restorative qualities model: Destination scope

richness and extent of the activities, sights and programs provided to engage visitors at a destination

Destination restorative qualities model: Mental away-ness:

sense of psychological distance between one's usual routine or regular or ongoing pursuit of activities and purposes

Travel want:

tangible articulation for consumers to express their travel need and motivation

People's physiological, relational and developmental needs motivate them to travel: Rest and relaxation are a baseline travel motivation for contemporary consumers

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