An analytical scale for domestic tourism motivation and constraints at multi-attraction destinations: The case study of Serbia's Lower and Middle Danube region

Kovačić, Sanja; Jovanović, Tamara; Tomić, Nemanja; Vasiljević, Djordjije A.

doi:10.1016/j.tmp.2017.05.002

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“…Tourism motivation and limitations have been vastly researched by many authors (Crawford & Godbey, 1987;Crompton, 1979;Dann, 1981;Mayo and Jarvis, 1981;Pearce, 1982;Pearce, 1991;Pearce, 2005;Pearce & Caltabiano, 1983) and is still a popular research topic (Božić et al, 2016;Božić et al, 2017a;Božić et al, 2017b;Huang et al, 2001;Jang et al, 2002;Jiang, 2015;Leong et al, 2015;Lesjak et al, 2015;Li et al, 2015;Wong & Tang, 2016). Research is mainly directed towards grasping tourism behaviour that can be described as vital component in the decision making process when choosing a destination and nature of vacation (Dann, 1977;Pearce, 2014;Sirakaya & Woodside, 2005), further argued and researched the level of satisfaction that is derived from tourism experience (Correia et al, 2013;Caber & Albayrak 2016;Dann, 1981;Dunn & Iso-Ahola, 1991;Ryan, 2002;Yoon & Uysal, 2005).…”

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“…Thus, push factors are observed to be present in the decision-making process before pull factors, which have an impact (Dunne, 2009). It is apparent that push factors influence tourists' travel decisions, yet destinations cannot create push motivations for tourists (Božić et al, 2017b). Destinations can only offer attractions coherent with tourists' push factors.…”

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“…Milman and and Goossens (2000) argued and studied destination image and the complexi-ty of influence it has on travel motivation, showing the composite ways in which push factors are united in affecting destination choice. Božić et al, (2017b) developed a new analytical scale for domestic tourism motivations and limitations for visiting complex destinations with multiple resources, comprising out of both cultural and natural assets. The scale was also based on push and pull theory, discussing their role in destination choice.…”

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What will prevail within citybreak travel, motivation or demotivation?: Case study of Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia

Vujičić¹,

Stamenković²,

Stankov³

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Geographica Pannonica

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The aim of this paper is to develop a new perspective on urban tourist motivations and demotivation's by applying the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) model in order to better understand how tourists make decisions about which destinations to visit. Authors discovered that most important factor within city break travel is internal force, followed by the external force and least important is demotivation. The paper argues that the results indicate the value of applying the AHP model to understand the role and importance both of push and pull factors and demotivators in urban tourism destination choice.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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What will prevail within citybreak travel, motivation or demotivation?: Case study of Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia

Vujičić¹,

Stamenković²,

Stankov³

et al. 2020

Geographica Pannonica

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“…The study of motivation is being widely used in understanding of the human behaviour and has an important topic in tourism research [10], [11], [12], [13], [14], [15], [7], [16]. One of the most popular model is the Crompton's push and pull model which emphasizes that tourist's choice of a travel destination is influenced by two forces -push factors that push individuals from home, and pull factors that pull individuals toward a destination [10].…”

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Recreation, relaxation or something else? Exploring the motives for visiting the wellness hotels in Serbia

Blešić¹,

Kovačić²,

Syromiatnikova³

et al. 2019

Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Innovations in Sports, Tourism and Instructional Science (ICISTIS 2019)

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Nowadays, the various forms of health tourism are gaining popularity in the world tourism. In the last decade, health tourism is featuring a growing development primarily in the area of wellness tourism. Wellness services are today a very important criterion for guests when deciding which hotel to choose. For this reason it is necessary to pay great attention to planning and design of this part of the hotel product but also to explore the motives for visiting wellness hotels in order to adjust the hotel offer to the most dominant consumers. In order to follow the trends, wellness hotels should specialize in providing health information and a wide range of recreation and relaxation programs. Therefore, in order to keep up with good quality, hotel managers should examine the expectations, motives of the visit and the needs of their customers. Based on this, the main objectives of this research are to examine the characteristics of the motivational behavior of the tourists visiting the wellness hotels, explore the role of need for recreation in visiting wellness hotels. In addition, the study explores the relationship between the socio-demographic characteristics of respondents and their motivational behavior in relation to the wellness facilities in Serbian hotels.

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“…For single attraction destinations such as Santa Claus Village in Lapland, Finland, tourist motivations are straightforward and correspond with expected behaviours in the destination. For destinations with multiple attractions, understanding tourist motivations is more complex [5]. This complexity is typical for urban destinations comprised of a mix of historical places, monuments, museums and art galleries, buildings and other architectural structures, parks, events and festivals, night-time entertainment and a range of other services that interlink with the tourism offer.…”

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Fuzzy Modelling of Tourist Motivation: An Age-Related Model for Sustainable, Multi-Attraction, Urban Destinations

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Tourist motivation, as a core of travel behavior, significantly influences consumer intentions and has attracted academic attention for decades. A plethora of studies analyse sets of internal and external motivators, while methodologies that exclusively focus on a single factor, such as age, that can sometimes have a determining influence in multi-attraction destinations, are less prevalent. This study introduces a fuzzy logic approach to develop a new model for analysing the internal motivations of different-aged consumers in multi-attraction urban destinations. Fuzzy models, as a mathematical means of representing vagueness and imprecise information, have the capability of recognizing, representing, manipulating, interpreting, and utilizing data and information, which typically for urban tourist motivations, are vague and lack certainty. This research tests the model in a real-life setting, using the example of Novi Sad, a mid-sized European city, which is typical of many similar cities who are attempting to develop sustainable tourism by attracting older tourists. The new model shows how tourist motivations for multi-attraction destinations are affected by age, through a specially developed m-file for MATLAB, so that it can be applied and tested in other tourism contexts. Theoretical and practical implications for sustainable destination management and marketing are described.

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An analytical scale for domestic tourism motivation and constraints at multi-attraction destinations: The case study of Serbia's Lower and Middle Danube region

Cited by 33 publications

References 68 publications

What will prevail within citybreak travel, motivation or demotivation?: Case study of Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia

What will prevail within citybreak travel, motivation or demotivation?: Case study of Novi Sad, Vojvodina, Serbia

Recreation, relaxation or something else? Exploring the motives for visiting the wellness hotels in Serbia

Fuzzy Modelling of Tourist Motivation: An Age-Related Model for Sustainable, Multi-Attraction, Urban Destinations

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