Tourist Motivation
1.0 Motivation Studies
Tourist motivation consist five different levels
Self-esteem and development needs
Relaxation needs
Relationship needs
Safety/ security needs
Self-actualization/ fulfillment needs
- an initial point in studying tourist behavior and beyond that for understanding systems of tourism (Gunn, 1998; Mill & Morrison, 1985)
Key terms involving travel career pattern
Motivation pattern
Travel career
Travel needs/ motives
Travel career ladder (TCL)
Self/ others-oriented motives
Travel career pattern (TCP)
2.0 Travel Motivation Factors
Relationship
Nature
Escape/ relax
Recognition
Novelty
Romannce
Travel Vareer Pattern (TCP)
Abraham Maslow's Hierarchy of Needs
Consistency Theory
Complexity Theory
- Love Needs
- Esteem Needs
- Safety Needs
- Self Actualization Needs
- Psychological Needs
- people seek for balance, harmony, sameness, the absence of conflict and predictability
- people seek for novelty, unexpectedness, change and predictability