The relationship between personality, gender, and tourism behavior

Frew, Elspeth; Shaw, Rod

doi:10.1016/s0261-5177(98)00081-8

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“…Certain aspects of holiday trips, or certain types of trips, may be better suited to a certain type of personality (Frew and Shaw 1999). Detailed information on the link between personality, behavior and happiness in a tourism context would enable the tourism industry to develop improved products, which match the needs and wants of their customers to a larger extent.…”

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Happiness Through Vacationing: Just a Temporary Boost or Long-Term Benefits?

Nawijn

2010

J Happiness Stud

104

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Does vacationing add to our happiness in the long run? This question was addressed in a study of 3,650 Dutch citizens who reported their leisure travel every 3 months during 2 years and rated their happiness at the end of each year. Participants who had been on vacation appeared to be marginally happier, in terms of hedonic level of affect, than those who had not. This difference in Affect balance between vacationers and non-vacationers is probably due to a very minor causal effect of vacationing on hedonic level of affect. Possibly, vacationing is positively reminisced and these memories allow for the prevalence of more positive affect in people's lives. Happiness did not predict vacationing. The effect of holiday trips on vacationers' happiness is mostly short-lived; among vacationers, happiness was unrelated to the number of trips and days spent on vacation. A separate analysis of vacationers, who value vacationing most, yielded the same results. Implications for future research are discussed.

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Section: Future Researchmentioning

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Happiness Through Vacationing: Just a Temporary Boost or Long-Term Benefits?

Nawijn

2010

J Happiness Stud

104

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“…however, only limited research has been conducted to address gender perspectives in tourism, despite the fact that gender appears to be fundamental in the travel decision-making process (Kinnaird & hall, 1994;Norris & Wall, 1994). Studies that have centered their investigations on gender have largely been in the field of leisure tourism and provide some support for the view that differences exist in relation to gender (e.g., Collins & Tisdell, 2002;Frew & Shaw, 1999;Mcgehee, LokerMurphy, & Uysal, 1996;Meng & Uysal, 2008). however, the findings from these studies are typically inconsistent, and many are not generalizable.…”

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Exploring Intentions to Attend a Convention: A Gender Perspective

Ramirez¹,

Laing²,

Mair³

2013

Event Management

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The number of people attending conventions is growing worldwide, yet little is still known about convention attendees, particularly from a gender perspective. Scholars have recognized that gender is fundamental to travel decisions, yet there is still an absence of gender-specific research in the convention attendee travel context. The purpose of this study was to explore the influence of gender on the convention attendance travel decision. It involved interviewing attendees at an international medical convention about their intentions to attend the next convention. The exploratory findings reveal that some women consider certain factors to be more influential on their convention attendance decision than men, such as the networking opportunities. The results provide some preliminary insights into the potential role gender plays in the convention attendance decision. The implications of these findings for convention marketing are discussed.

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“…Early research demonstrated how tourism is built on human relations and thus impacts and is impacted upon by global and local gender relations (Swain, 1995), constructing an argument for a more gender aware framework to understand tourism processes (Kinnaird and Hall, 1996). Subsequent studies have addressed the gender dimensions of employment in tourism (Sinclair, 1997;Vandegrift, 2008); gendered tourism imagery (Pritchard and Morgan, 2000;Marshment, 1997); sex 5 tourism (Truong, 1990;Enloe, 1989;Sanchez Taylor, 2001Dahles and Bras, 1999) and female consumers (Frew and Shaw, 1999;Kim et al, 2007).…”

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Towards a gendered political economy of water and tourism

Cole

Ferguson

2015

Tourism Geographies

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In many holiday destinations, the tourism industry exerts an enormous strain on water supplies. This generates a range of social problems, not least because local inhabitants often have to compete with the tourism sector over the access, allocation and use of water for their personal and domestic needs. Nevertheless, there has been very little academic research on the link between tourism and the impact of water scarcity on destination populations in developing countries. While there is a wealth of literature on gender and tourism development, such research has tended to focus on employment relations and tourism policy and planning, neglecting ecological issues such as water. Drawing on original ethnographic research conducted in Tamarindo, Costa Rica, in 2013, this paper makes a preliminary attempt to address this gap in the literature by developing a gendered political economy approach to water in tourism development.Three key themes are identified from this research: the salience of intersectional inequalities of gender, class and nationality, in particular the different experiences of Nicaraguan women, Costa Rican women and women from the Global North; how the role of social reproduction is vital to understanding gender and water in Tamarindo due to enduring assumptions about women's perceived responsibility for water; and the gendered dimensions of conflicts over water. Such conflicts are highly gendered and contribute to reshaping of power relations in this international tourism destination. In the conclusions, we argue that our findings demonstrate the need to pay attention to both intersectionality and social reproduction, as well as to identify a future research agenda for developing a gendered political economy approach to tourism and water.

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The relationship between personality, gender, and tourism behavior

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Happiness Through Vacationing: Just a Temporary Boost or Long-Term Benefits?

Happiness Through Vacationing: Just a Temporary Boost or Long-Term Benefits?

Exploring Intentions to Attend a Convention: A Gender Perspective

Towards a gendered political economy of water and tourism

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