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Session 3: Motivation Expectations

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Session 3: Motivation Expectations

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    1. Tourism Cultures & Intercultural Encounters 2006 1 Session 3: Motivation & Expectations Karina M. Smed

    2. Tourism Cultures & Intercultural Encounters 2006 2 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)

    3. Tourism Cultures & Intercultural Encounters 2006 3 Agenda 9-21-2006 Tourist motivation studies Push & Pull Tourist typologies Tourism as the extraordinary Occurring changes Group Work

    4. Tourism Cultures & Intercultural Encounters 2006 4 7 ”Denmark” Experiences: Why vacation in Denmark? 7 categories of experiences Problem?

    5. Tourism Cultures & Intercultural Encounters 2006 5 What they seek in Denmark… Calmness Nature’s free pleasures Nature activities Summer fun The good life City break City visits

    6. Tourism Cultures & Intercultural Encounters 2006 6 Motivational factors: (after Burns 1999:42) 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.

    7. Tourism Cultures & Intercultural Encounters 2006 7 Cohen’s tourist typology (1974)

    8. Tourism Cultures & Intercultural Encounters 2006 8 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

    9. Tourism Cultures & Intercultural Encounters 2006 9 Pearce: combination of individual and mass Attempt to redevelop a typology based on tourist motivation

    10. Tourism Cultures & Intercultural Encounters 2006 10 Tourism as the extraordinary Tourism = not work, recreation, play, away from home environment, voluntary work = not leisure, everyday, at home, necessity

    11. Tourism Cultures & Intercultural Encounters 2006 11 Durkheim (1912)

    12. Tourism Cultures & Intercultural Encounters 2006 12 In relation to culture… Push and pull Travel career

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    14. Tourism Cultures & Intercultural Encounters 2006 14 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)

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