基本説明
New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2006. Considers plans and behaviours for tourist spending, length of stay, attractions, destinations, accommodation and activities, and investigates how marketing strategies affect consumer plans.
Full Description
How do individuals go about making trade-off's among work, leisure, travel, and personal maintenance(e.g. sleeping) activities? What are the unconscious as well as conscious drivers of their behaviours?How well do their behaviours follow what they plan? These questions are fundamental in consumerbehaviour. This book provides fresh insights in responding to these issues.This book examines alternative theories and the empirical testing of trade-offs we make in life amongwork, leisure, travel, and personal maintenance actions and how our plans relate to what we actuallydo. Tourism Behaviour considers plans and behaviours for tourist spending, length of stay, attractions,destinations, accommodation and activities, and investigates how marketing strategies affect consumerplans. This book provides new theory, empirical studies, and practical insights of significant interest totravel and leisure researchers, destination marketing managers, and advanced students in tourism andconsumer behaviour.
Contents
PART I2: Qualitative Comparative Analysis of Travel and Tourism Purchase-Consumption Systems 3: Holistic Case-Based Modeling of Customers' Thinking-Doing Destination Choice Introduction PART II: 4:Introduction to the Theory and Investigation of Planned and Realised Consumer Behavior 5: Summary of Findings 6: Research Objectives and Theoretical Framework 7: Research Method 8: Variations Between Planned and Realised Behaviors 9: Influence of Product Information on Planned and Realised Consumption Activities 10: Influence of Consumer Characteristics On Planned and Realised Behaviors 11: Strategic Implications and Discussion
