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Chapter 2 Vocab
Tourism
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Active Sports Tourism | involves traveling to participate in physical sporting activities, often combining adventure, fitness, and cultural experiences. |
| Allocentric Travelers | an active, adventurous, and non-conforming pursuit of novelty, seeking out unstructured experiences in exotic or remote locations rather than relying on standard mass-market infrastructure. |
| Business Tourism | refers to travel undertaken for work-related purposes—such as meetings, conferences, trade shows, and incentive trips—and represents a major global sector projected to reach around $2 trillion by 2028. |
| Corporate Hospitality Event | business‑sponsored entertainment or social events that combine the principles of () with tourism activities, aimed at building relationships, enhancing brand image, and creating memorable experiences for clients, stakeholders, or employees. |
| Demographics | in tourism refer to the statistical characteristics of travelers that help understand who they are, where they come from, and what influences their travel behavior. |
| Destination | refers to a location that attracts visitors due to its unique attractions, services, and experiences, supported by infrastructure, stakeholders, and cultural or natural appeal. |
| Economic Leakage | is the portion of visitor spending that leaves the host destination’s economy and goes to foreign-owned businesses, overseas suppliers, or other external entities, rather than circulating locally. |
| Geotagging | is the process of attaching precise geographical metadata—such as latitude and longitude coordinates—to travel-related media like photos, videos, or social media posts, enabling those items to be located and displayed accurately on digital maps. |
| Insta Tourism | is when a place gets more visitors because photos of it go viral on social media, driving people to visit just to recreate those same pictures. |
| Market Segmentations | in tourism is the process of dividing a broad travel market into smaller, more manageable groups of consumers who share similar needs, characteristics, or behaviors, so that tourism businesses can tailor products to each group. |
| Mass Tourism | is a large-scale form of tourism that involves tens of thousands of people visiting the same popular destinations at the same time of year. It grew significantly after World War II due to cheaper air travel, paid time off, and higher disposable income. |
| MICE | tourism refers to business travel focused on Meetings, Incentives, Conferences, and Exhibitions—organized events planned in advance for professional, commercial, or networking purposes. |
| Mid-Centric Travelers | is a person whose travel style lies between the adventurous allocentric and the comfort‑focused psychocentric types, seeking a balanced mix of new experiences and familiar, well‑established attractions. |
| Nostalgic Sports Tourism | is a specialized form of sports tourism in which travelers visit places, events, or activities connected to past sports experiences, driven by sentimental longing and emotional ties to those moments. |
| Passive Sports Tourism | refers to travel undertaken primarily to watch or attend sporting events rather than to participate physically in the sport. |
| Plog’s Model | defines tourist behavior along a personality-based continuum with three main types: Allocentric (adventurous), Midcentric (balanced), and Psychocentric (risk‑averse), forming a bell‑curve distribution introduced by Stanley Plog in 1974. |
| Psychocentric Travelers | () tourists prefer familiar, safe, and well-established destinations, seeking comfort and predictability in their travel experiences. |
| Psychographics | is the study of travelers based on their internal psychological traits, such as attitudes, values, interests, and lifestyles, rather than basic external facts like age or gender |
| Target Market | A () in tourism is a specific group of travelers identified by shared characteristics, needs, and preferences that tourism businesses or destinations aim to serve with tailored products and marketing strategies. |
| Typology | () in tourism serves to categorize tourists or tourism types, helping researchers and industry professionals understand diversity, guide planning, and tailor experiences. |
| Virtual Tourism | is the use of digital technology to simulate or enhance a tourism experience without physically traveling to a destination. |
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