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Characteristics of leisure and holiday tourists

Blog / 11/08/2024

1. An important feature of tourism is its strong comprehensiveness and integrity. It is an industry whole composed of six elements: transportation, housing, eating, traveling, shopping and entertainment. For tourists, what they need to buy and consume is the whole feeling they get in a tourism activity. Therefore, in the whole process of tourism, any industry or link has insufficient supply, poor service, or even problems, which can not meet the needs of tourists, and will be considered that the quality of tourism service is not high, thus affecting the reputation of the whole tourism industry.

2. People gather in groups. Group activities are a major feature of urban leisure tourism. Residents tend to travel in groups, and tourists include family, friends and colleagues. They mostly choose to get together and play on holidays, festivals and weekends. Here, the circle is a group symbol that can not be ignored. Various cultural circles, industry circles, social circles, homecoming associations and hometown associations drive the development of leisure industry.

3. Flexible choice. Breaking through the traditional tourism demand, tourist destinations are no longer limited to tourist attractions, but flexible and diverse. Shopping places, streets, squares, parks, theaters, bookstores, bars, small country yards, and suburban landscapes can all become part of leisure tourism. Everything depends on the needs and feelings of residents, and their tourism purposes are flexible and diverse, and leisure life is the goal.

4. Expensive essence is not much more expensive. Traveling in different places, most tourists should strive to visit the most scenic spots in the shortest time and enhance their sense of experience; Leisure tourism is a complete negation of cursory tourism, emphasizing that quality is not much more expensive, and quality is not quantity. Leisure tourists pursue a realm of life and a normal life. They will choose one or two points to savor and appreciate and feel from the heart. This kind of leisure is leisurely, and what they pursue is the quality of life.

5. Diversified types. Leisure tourism products are rich and varied, including art exhibitions, photography exhibitions and concerts catering to people with high cultural quality, as well as parks and characteristic blocks suitable for ordinary people to relax; There are high-end hotels, resorts, golf, hot springs and other leisure and holiday facilities, as well as general sightseeing facilities.

6. Word of mouth is more important than publicity. Because residents have a better understanding of the local geographical and cultural conditions, the phenomenon of information asymmetry is weakened, and their tourism decisions are relatively less affected by advertising and marketing, but more easily guided by word-of-mouth communication. The positive or negative evaluation of a place by friends and colleagues around you will directly affect their choice, and the obstacle of negative evaluation is stronger than the traction of positive evaluation.

7. Layout drives popularity. Urban planning, construction and functional layout are cohesive to leisure tourism activities. Some commercial blocks, cultural communities and shopping places are easy to become crowd gathering centers, and famous tourist attractions are also attractive.

8. Strong repeatability. Restricted by time, residents can use all their leisure time to participate in leisure activities. The interval period is short, and it can be experienced many times. Although the single cost is not necessarily high, the accumulated consumption is large.

1, sensitive to the quality and price of tourism products.

2. Tourism is seasonal. The performance is as follows: first, almost all of them choose the best season in the tourist destination; Second, almost all employees use paid holidays.

3. Generally, the time spent in the tourist destination is longer.

4. It accounts for the largest proportion of all outbound tourists.

5. Have a greater degree of freedom of choice in the choice of tourist destination and departure time.

Motivation is the desire that can cause individuals to engage in an activity and make the activity point to a certain goal to meet certain needs of individuals. Tourism motivation is people's desire to meet the demand for tourism after they have produced it.

Extended data:

The objective conditions for the formation of tourists;

The objective conditions that affect the formation of tourists mainly include income level and leisure time. In addition, they are also influenced by other objective conditions, such as tourists' physical condition, family structure, resources and social conditions of tourist destinations, the developed degree of tourism, the attention and encouragement of the government and social groups, and the price of tourism products.

Common types of tourists and their characteristics;

The basic types of tourists are: sightseeing tourists, recreational tourists, cultural tourists, holiday health tourists, official tourists, family and personal affairs tourists, ecological adventure tourists, religious pilgrims and shopping tourists.

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